(a) Promoting development and dissemination of impact and vulnerability assessment tools and methods

Measuring the degree of vulnerability to food insecurity is the first step in poverty assessment.

Physical protection of nuclear material and nuclear facilities and assessment of vulnerability of nuclear facilities

(a) Carrying out a security assessment

Practical guidelines for gender sensitive vulnerability and food security analysis have also been prepared.

Recognizing the importance of WFP's enhanced effectiveness in emergency preparedness, a new division Analysis, Assessment and Preparedness (ODA) was formed, in which the Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit, the Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping (VAM) Unit and the Needs Assessment Unit coordinate their activities.

Vulnerability components, risk intensity and response capacity, with their particular indicators, form the basis for the integral assessment of land degradation and poverty.

Stressing the importance of advancing the implementation of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and its relevant provisions on vulnerability, risk assessment and disaster management,

Methods and approaches used in vulnerability and adaptation assessments Almost all Parties reported on the use of various impact and vulnerability assessment methodologies and approaches, ranging from sophisticated computer models to qualitative assessments based on expert judgement and literature review.

Mr. Kishan Kumarsingh, the Chair of the EGTT, outlined the UNFCCC work on technology transfer and adaptation and noted that identifying and implementing technologies for adaptation will involve activities such as vulnerability assessment and technology needs assessment (TNAs).

The methodological approaches used by Parties were generally consistent with the analytical framework provided in the IPCC Guidelines and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) UNEP Handbook on Assessing Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change and the UNEP Handbook on Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment.

Methodologies for vulnerability assessment, reporting in national communications, research and systematic observation, funding issues, adaptation technologies, addressing adverse effects of climate change, and impacts of response measures.

Additionally, the Communications Security Establishment is the information technology security technical authority responsible for developing operational standards for system certification and accreditation, risk and vulnerability analysis, product evaluation, system security and network security analysis.

Almost all non Annex I Parties that submitted an initial national communication provided information on their needs and concerns relating to assessment of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.

Some Parties collaborate with Parties included in Annex I to the Convention (Annex I Parties) through their national institutes where environmental studies on vulnerability and adaptation assessment are conducted.

Noting with grave concern the growing intensity and recurrence of natural disasters, and reaffirming the importance of sustainable measures to reduce the vulnerability of societies to natural hazards using an integrated, multi hazard and participatory approach to addressing vulnerability, risk assessment and disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery,

Assessment of the work of the Security Council during Spain's presidency (September 2004)

He cited examples of cooperation projects, conducted with bilateral assistance, focused on vulnerability assessment, disaster preparedness and risk management, integrated water management, prevention of desertification, and support of meteorological networks.

And you know how I feel about vulnerability. I hate vulnerability.

As part of its overall ICT security assessment, UNDP, in October 2004, appointed the Chief Information Security Officer to oversee improvements to the ICT security environment.

Assessment of the work of the Security Council during the presidency of Argentina (January 2005)

The assessment and exhumation operations this year were complicated by the security situation in Iraq.

In paragraph 359, the Board recommended that UNICEF implement vulnerability assessment of firewalls on a more regular basis, to be determined after considering United Nations and private sector best practices in this respect.

The assessment was prepared under my responsibility, in consultation with other members of the Security Council.

Economic vulnerability issues

14. Urges the United Nations funds and programmes and the international community to continue to provide technical assistance to national vulnerability assessment committees that have been established in the States members of the Community

About from a hundred feet away, this is what I hear Vulnerability TED! Vulnerability TED!

The purpose of the ISPS Code is to provide a standardized, consistent framework for evaluating security risks, enabling SOLAS Contracting Governments to offset, through appropriate security instructions, changes in security threats with changes in vulnerability for ships and port facilities.

One of the main constraints in the assessment of vulnerability and adaptation in non Annex I Parties was the lack of data to meet the demands of the methodologies for these assessments, as well as Parties' inability to conduct the type of vulnerability and adaptation assessments that would generate results reliable enough to be incorporated into national planning processes.

Expressing deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters and their increasing impact within recent years, and reaffirming the need for sustainable measures at all levels to reduce the vulnerability of societies to natural hazards, using an integrated, multi hazard and participatory approach to addressing vulnerability, risk assessment, and disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery,

Although many Parties provided information on the institutional arrangements that had been established to carry out vulnerability and adaptation assessment, many of these institutions lacked the capacity and resources to fully engage in such work.

UNICEF agrees to ensure that regular vulnerability assessments of firewalls are conducted within the framework of the evolving information technology security environment and budget availability.

Beginning in 2005, the database will enable user friendly access by stakeholders to updated, comprehensive and policy relevant information on nutrition, food security and vulnerability.

And I did not learn about vulnerability and courage and creativity and innovation from studying vulnerability.

Vulnerability is not weakness.

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Mr. Veness (Under Secretary General for Safety and Security) said that well designed threat and risk assessment was essential to the development of effective security measures.

The World Food Programme (WFP) conducted a food security and vulnerability analysis, as an essential tool for the effective targeting of development and safety net programmes.

Assessment of the work of the Security Council during the presidency of the Republic of Benin (February 2005)

Has Thailand implemented, using risk assessment principles, appropriate security measures concerning the import, export and transit of firearms?

The second document provides a brief review of recent maritime security initiatives and discusses security risk assessment and management frameworks methods and applications relevant to maritime transport.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back.

The Moral Vulnerability of Markets