As mentioned above, I hope a reinvigorated Economic and Social Council will give overall direction to this new coherence.

More integration and coherence in approaches by Governments and major groups to combine the social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainable development.

System coherence

Other important issues included Corporate Social Responsibility and a development oriented coherence between national development strategies and decisions emanating from international financial institutions.

System wide coherence

System wide coherence

System wide coherence

Successful implementation of summit outcomes required policy coherence and consistency, as inconsistencies between economic, financial and social policies were key obstacles to objectives being met.

They complemented the discussions at the high level segment and contributed to bringing greater thematic coherence to the various segments of the Economic and Social Council session.

A. Coherence, effectiveness and relevance

A more focused Economic and Social Council should provide strategic guidance, promote coherence and coordination and evaluate performance without interfering in the work of other financial and trade organizations.

Coherence between the UNCCD and the GEF

International systemic coherence therefore assumed particular importance.

The Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs, which engages all the United Nations entities participating in the programme, ensures the avoidance of duplication of effort and the advancement of coherence and synergy among United Nations actors in the economic and social arena.

Quantity, quality and coherence are our guiding principles.

The reform should improve coherence in the system.

Ensuring policy coherence is a major Government responsibility.

And we need to ensure greater coherence, both among the various United Nations representatives and activities in each country and in the wider United Nations system, particularly in the economic and social fields.

Coherence, effectiveness and relevance of operational activities for development

With respect to mainstreaming the regional dimension in the work of the United Nations and enhancing the coherence of its activities in the economic and social sectors, the Executive Secretaries expressed satisfaction with the measure taken so far by the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs.

The United Nations system, including the ILO, with its body of norms, provides the social pillar of the multilateral system as the anchor for establishing policy coherence, and it must be strengthened, not weakened.

It is about policy coherence, improved delivery and untying aid.

The Union has undertaken a political commitment to coherence in development.

Goal 1 coherence, relevance and sustainability of UNIFEM products and services

In Qatar, the Department of Social Affairs endeavours to maintain the coherence of the family and to prevent its disintegration through the implementation of programmes and plans focusing on low income social groups as well as on older persons, orphans, divorced women and abandoned wives, and the families of prison inmates.

The responsibility for securing fundamental coherence had to be shared by donors, beneficiaries and secretariats the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed targets provided the conceptual framework for that coherence.

169. We support stronger system wide coherence by implementing the following measures

In the Roadmap, the need for greater coordination and coherence was recognized.

UNCTAD can play an important role in helping to ensure such coherence.

The secretariat seeks to optimize coherence and synergy between its information systems.

The EU underscores its support for stronger United Nations wide coherence, starting with the implementation of the measures identified at the summit to promote coherence of policy, operational activities, humanitarian assistance and environmental activities.

The system shows greater coherence, and its disparate elements now work better together.

Advancing global initiatives that strengthen policy coherence, both nationally and internationally, is crucial.

The objective is to achieve an improved coherence of the international development agenda.

But basically, what we do is, we try to give coherence to the world.

The Philippines was also convinced that global economic policy making required increased multidimensional coherence.

Kenya praised the efforts by the United Nations system to improve coherence and coordination.

There is thus a semblance of coherence in IAPSO serving as secretariat to IAPWG.

Participants called for mandatory reporting by the international financial institutions to the Economic and Social Council, as well as for a memorandum of understanding between the United Nations, the institutions and the World Trade Organization, which would ensure policy coherence and accountability.

As a result, coordination and coherence within the United Nations family have since been enhanced.

Coherence with the PRSPs in each country is a key component of the quality assurance.

He urged the representatives to bear in mind three themes, namely, progress, partnerships and coherence.

The Peacebuilding Commission is required to perform the vital role of ensuring system wide coherence.

The panellist from the Geneva Social Observatory stressed the need for coherence and coordination in pursuing multiple public private partnerships and the need for stimulating dialogue in a multi stakeholder setting that ought to include TNCs, SMEs, the informal sector, civil society and international agencies.

9.7 In the context of its responsibilities for assisting the Secretary General in enhancing policy coherence in the management of the economic and social activities of the United Nations, the Department will seek to enhance the support it provides to the Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs in his role as convenor of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs and as Programme Manager of the United Nations Development Account.