The Secretariat has also advanced on upgrading selected Focal Points, with the recruitment process having been launched for Cuba, Mozambique and Uganda.

The slum upgrading programme continues to constitute a path breaking process, in which each stage contributes significantly towards achieving the Millennium Declaration target on slums.

C. Slum Upgrading Facility

For developing countries to benefit fully from industrial upgrading in China and other large emerging market economies, their governments must identify tradable industries that are consistent with their latent comparative advantage. They also must help private firms to resolve information, coordination, and externality issues in the process of industrial upgrading.

Tangible steps taken in this direction are the slum upgrading initiatives in Eastern Africa, including the Kenya slum upgrading programme.

During the process of overcapacity cut deploying, the local government must combine the production capacity and the transformation and upgrading of the coal industry to develop the relevant service industry.

Upgrading traditional economic sectors though enhanced productivity

(e) Upgrading of outdated systems and technology.

g) Others, for example construction or upgrading of warehouses.

The third component, or arrow, of Abenomics structural reforms aims to restore growth by raising productivity. But increasing efficiency in a wide variety of sectors, as Japan must do, can be a long, difficult, and piecemeal process, as it involves the upgrading of virtually every technology and process.

If not, one or the other needs upgrading, isn't it?

This process has been accelerated by a confluence of defense industry reforms, comprehensive military upgrading, and integration of innovative operational concepts. The net effect is a growing capability of China s strategic missile forces and military space platforms.

In addition, the promotion of investment and technology transfer, and international best practices related to process product upgrading, including quality management, cleaner technology and supply chain management are key to enabling the removal of supply side impediments.

In addressing directly the problems of the world's slums, an enabling strategy is integral to the approach of UN Habitat and is a substantial part of the value added by UN Habitat in the slum upgrading process.

General description In order to offer competitive, safe, reliable and cost effective products, enterprises have to be restructured and upgraded, supported by investment and technology inflows for process upgrading, as well as by productivity and quality management improvement.

They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.

Slum upgrading provides a unique opportunity for attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

Poverty reduction policies needed to focus on job creation and upgrading skills.

a) Expansion, upgrading and major rehabilitation of primary education and health infrastructure

Upgrading Women's Studies Centres at five major universities to full fledged departments.

Urban development promoting jobs, upgrading slums and developing alternatives to new slum formation

OSCE works to implement its Maastricht decision on upgrading travel documents security through promoting ICAO security standards for the handling and issuance of passports, upgrading to machine readable travel documents and introducing into them biometric identifiers.

Emphasis has been placed on national polices for urban development, shelter and slum upgrading.

The implementation of occupational retraining measures and upgrading the skills of the affected population

The third requires a far reaching overhaul and upgrading of our human rights machinery.

The strengthening of the value chain not only raises farmers incomes, but also empowers crop diversification and farm upgrading more generally. Similarly, world leading software firms are bringing information technology jobs, including business process outsourcing, right into the villages through digital networks.

Pursuant to the goals it has established, the Government is upgrading city neighbourhoods and settlements.

The third requires a far reaching overhaul and upgrading of our existing human rights machinery.

During the period under review, significant progress was made in establishing a slum upgrading facility.

Regional bureaux should strengthen their gender expertise by recruiting regional experts and upgrading staff skills.

Current projects targeted the upgrading to the latest version of the programme by implementing ASYCUDA .

In China, though clusters of vibrant smaller manufacturers are flourishing, policymakers have done relatively little to promote industrial development and upgrading. This leaves it up to market institutions to guide the process, ensuring that they play a key role in the expanding industrial sectors.

Through Cities Alliance, one of UN Habitat's main partners in slum upgrading work is the World Bank.

Pro poor policies could be a means to engage the poor in city development and slum upgrading.

Topics such as trade capacity building, innovation, technology upgrading, investment promotion and SME development would be covered.

According to press reports, Cable and Wireless is upgrading its network with the most technologically advanced systems.

(a) Strengthening national regulatory and justice system infrastructure (upgrading essential legislation, specialized training and improved judicial cooperation)

Its Local Industry Upgrading Program (LIUP) continues to support local suppliers to upgrade through collaborations with foreign firms.

The inspection, maintenance and upgrading of all security and safety equipment will continue to be given high priority.

Such upgrading enhances sector and firm competitiveness, and translates into greater world market shares in tradeable goods and services.

The Cities Alliance provides small grants that support the formulation of city development strategies and citywide slum upgrading initiatives.

It also handles the Department's information technology needs, including the maintenance and upgrading of computer equipment and user applications.

Upgrading the database should still be regarded as a significant project management task with appropriate governance arrangements in place.

OIOS noted the following outcomes of campaign activities (a) adoption of legal instruments and policies granting land (b) strengthening of security of tenure and regularization of informal settlements (c) integration of slum upgrading into city management and (d) actual slum upgrading through access to land and financing mechanisms.

This is being addressed by the Slum Upgrading Facility, a new initiative of UN Habitat aimed at assisting developing countries in mobilizing domestic capital for their slum and urban upgrading activities by facilitating links among local actors and by packaging the financial, technical and political elements of development projects.