Twinning and partnerships between regions would be encouraged

a) The Twinning of Palestinian Universities in the Occupied Territories with Universities in OIC Member States

One of the festival's objectives was to promote the signature of cooperation agreements, twinning arrangements and friendship groups between Venezuelan and African parliamentarians.

Further, cCustoms training hads spurred more routine communication between national stakeholders, thereby creating a platform for networking, and twinning, and for awareness raising.

While networking involveds a large number of countries, twinning initiateds closer relationships between a more limited number of countries that hadve common problems to solve.

Increased emphasis will be given to the development of rural and artisanal clusters, and to promoting twinning relationships between existing clusters in developed and developing countries.

Second, networking and twinning created formal and informal links that improved collection and exchange of information between relevant countries and created the possibility of joint action against illegal traders.

At regional level, the Office promoted north south sharing of expertise and experience in the Americas through civil society partnerships and twinning arrangements in the fields of RSD, reception and resettlement.

To encourage further networking and twinning activities in the framework of regional networks aimed at the exchange of information and experience on both licit and illicit trade in ozone depleting substances between the Parties, including enforcement agencies.

To encourage further networking and twinning activities in the framework of regional networks aimed at the exchange of information and experience on both licit and illicit trade in ozone depleting substances between the Parties, including enforcement agencies

Regarding the latter, twinning arrangements between donor and host Governments for a particular centre could provide longer term stability for the operation of the centre and allow a partnership to develop between a donor and the countries within a particular region or subregion.

There are a number of instruments that can be adopted to assist Governments in adapting innovations, including information sharing and knowledge networks twinning arrangements and practitioner to practitioner arrangements engaging in different jurisdictions study tours with action planning staff exchange transfer guidelines and awards.

They include the eight special recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force the recommendations of the EU experts in the framework of the Twinning Project , which ended in 2004 (EU PHARE Project Suppression of Money Laundering ) the expertise of competent authorities of other states (USA, for instance).

In order to raise awareness of the inherent risks in the operation of non profit organizations and to prevent their misuse as sources for the financing of terrorism, all subjects under LMML LMFT including the non profit organisations will be involved in a training exercise under the EU PHARE Twinning Light Programme, starting in 2005.

The twinning light project entitled Administrative Capacity Building of Governmental Bodies and Social Partners in Gender Mainstreaming Development and Implementation , which was implemented jointly with the European Union and Poland Hungary Aid for the Reconstruction of the Economy (PHARE) and was aimed at achieving gender mainstreaming in national policies, had already sponsored a successful training workshop.

Calls upon the Union of Islamic Universities to coordinate with the Member universities to facilitate and encourage twinning agreements between the Palestinian universities and the Member universities of the Union with a view to fostering joint cooperation and allowing Palestinian universities to take advantage of these universities' experiences according to their priorities and needs and calls upon those universities to receive academic and training missions from the Palestinian Universities.