These procedures have been mostly streamlined.

7. The Secretariat itself has been streamlined, through the merging and elimination of units nearly a thousand posts have been cut, to fewer than 9,000 and the budget has been reduced to less than that of the previous biennium.

His verbatim records, for example, has been replaced by summary records, and the report that was to be presented by the Special Committee to the General Assembly had been streamlined.

Furthermore, the maintenance of the road network had been streamlined through the Roads 2000 Programme.

The sixth wave of the survey will be administered to Governments in the last quarter of 1998 and, as indicated above, has been sufficiently streamlined and simplified.

Its mandates had been streamlined and focused on key issues directly related to trade and development.

(c) Streamlined work procedures

The delegation of authority has resulted in procedures becoming progressively streamlined without weakening sound management policies.

(b) Maintaining a streamlined agenda

But actually rotating from streamlined right to streamlined left, maintaining that fuselage position as long as possible.

Quality standards have been incorporated in the streamlined emergency preparedness and response plan format and will be monitored.

Documentation services have been further streamlined to provide more efficient support of UNICRI research, training and technical cooperation activities.

A. World Bank . Contacts with the World Bank at the senior and working levels have been intensified and streamlined.

Four priority procedures, namely, dependency benefits, education grant, rental subsidy and special post allowance, have been streamlined and automated.

Custodial controls have been streamlined and strengthened to guard against risks of leakage of technology, accidental launch or unauthorized deployment.

The document has since been streamlined according to the recommendations, in particular by eliminating lengthy descriptions of data contained in the tables and by avoiding repetition in the text as far as possible.

In the area of labour exchanges, employment fairs meant to bring Palestinian workers into contact with Israeli contractors have been initiated, employment procedures have been streamlined and job hunting has been made more organized and efficient. Regarding flexible hours, the number of hours a worker may stay in Israel has been extended, and arrangements have been made to allow for working in shifts.

The continuous upgrading of work methods over successive bienniums has also resulted in decreased staff costs, and the Section now has a more streamlined structure.

In the past two years, the Agency has adopted a streamlined approach in producing a short and simple draft resolution.

As stated above, the need to strengthen project management has been recognized by UNRWA for some time and is in the process of being streamlined in the context of the organization development initiative currently under way.

The work of the Third Committee, organized in two clusters (social and related issues and human rights and related issues), has been streamlined progressively without diminishing the political relevance of the sensitive issues on the agenda.

(a) Reformed, improved and streamlined its agenda to seven items

(a) Reformed, improved and streamlined its agenda to seven items

(e) Harmonized and streamlined procedures for monitoring receivables and remittances.

Delegations welcomed the clear and streamlined presentation of the budget.

Thus, visa regimes could be streamlined and made more effective.

In line with efforts to revitalize the Organization, the current year's draft had been simplified and streamlined in an effort to update and consolidate it.

Finally, in 2002 a new law streamlined the process and, in the last few years, a large number of drug traffickers' assets have been confiscated.

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations has streamlined the management review process to ensure that reports of the reviews are issued in a timely manner.

And then again, there is the fact that we are streamlined.

The chief here likes his boys streamlined, ain't that right, Chief?

As the Director of the Programme Planning and Budget Division had explained, tasks had been streamlined and reoriented in order to fulfil mandates with reduced resources.

The revision of financial regulations and rules in 2003 and of the Procurement Manual in 2004 has streamlined procedures and made them more field oriented.

In 2004, homelessness prevention programs were streamlined and enhanced by  2 million.

Further KPC professionalization is needed, including a streamlined and effective command structure.

(e) Development and implementation of a simplified and streamlined Joint Strategic Planning package.

An important prerequisite was to ensure the streamlined efficiency of the security apparatus.

Further measures to facilitate road transit traffic that have recently been undertaken in the various regions include agreements on streamlined customs documentation and procedures and harmonization of transit charges.

The agendas of the meetings of the working groups should be short and streamlined.

The project aims to speed clearance through the introduction of streamlined procedures and computerization.

(c) Streamlined human resources policies, processes and rules in the area of staff administration

The Committee is of the view that these functions should be streamlined and consolidated.

Project formulation has been streamlined with the approval in 1998 of UNEP Manual on Project Design the measures to ensure timely submission of financial statements and progress reports were put in place (UNEP withholds cash advances from organizations that have not submitted the required reports).

Although new systems have streamlined routines and the reconciliation of payments through one bank has helped, the volume of payments currently being made dictates a need for additional resources.

Regulations and rules have been established, policies and procedures have been streamlined, organizational units have been restructured and reorganized and mechanisms have been created, all in an attempt to implement legislative mandates in the most cost effective manner and to have a positive impact on the Organization's beneficiaries.