THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER'S PROGRAMME

Members note that considerable progress has been made over the last years in streamlining the resolutions on the item UNRWA' and note the importance of exploring the possibility for further streamlining.

First things first, we eliminate all the substeps.

Simplification and harmonization of documentation procedures in order to further facilitate cross border railway operations is also an important area of concern.

A simplified declaration processing path is also introduced as part of the implementation process to speed up and simplify clearance of freight.

The Committee welcomes the efforts made to streamline presentation and further develop the result based formulation.

This should serve to promote further steps within the system aimed at simplification in programming and contribute to the eventual development of a more streamlined and collaborative United Nations system development cooperation programme cycle.

Transit services should be further liberalized to encourage competition. Transit rules and regulations should be simplified, harmonized, streamlined and made transparent.

(c) Further support and streamlining of budget revision processes

These concerns illustrate the desirability of further simplifying and harmonizing the main procedural steps of procurement across the organizations.

The Committee believes that there is room for further streamlining of the budget document tables should be consolidated where possible and repetition should be avoided in the narrative.

Essentially, it does it by providing a smooth ramp of gradual step by step increment.

The members note that considerable progress has been made over the past 10 years in streamlining the resolutions on the item United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and note the importance of exploring the possibility of further streamlining.

And it became ever clearer that economic growth doesn't automatically translate into social growth or human growth.

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

So, instead of a reductionist view, we're taking a step back.

Further thought should be given to streamlining the various types of contracts.

The Board considers that the budget control mechanism at the section level needs further refinement.

Current reforms raise expectations that simplification and harmonization can proceed in step with UNDAFs.

And so what we do is, we start simple and we work our way up to living systems.

UNICEF finds that with these changes it will be possible to proceed further with the recommended joint initiatives in areas such as analysis, programming and implementation and also simplification, harmonization and alignment.

19. With regard to the use of civilian personnel in general, the Advisory Committee recommends that further steps be taken to effect more streamlining and efficiency in such areas as general and support services by contracting out some of these services and thereby effecting further staff reduction.

It should serve as a road map to catalyse further change and reform.

Further steps to mainstream a gender perspective

The need for more streamlining and harmonization of forest related reporting is being addressed by a task force of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests.

The implementation of re engineering projects and further automation of processes have softened the impact of the increase in volume, and additional reporting has provided further efficiency improvements.

Multiply and express as a simplified rational.

It was to be hoped that the simplification and harmonization process would be speeded up by general utilization of CCAs and UNDAFs, joint programming, and the involvement of the specialized agencies in the process.

While the presentation of the Board's report had been further improved, the document itself remained lengthy and the Advisory Committee took the view that some of its descriptive parts could be streamlined without compromising quality.

Acknowledging that national efforts are critical to prevent the deepening of the humanitarian crisis,

Now the first step, pretty easy.

As a result of comments made by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A 58 7 Add.9, para. 3), further efforts have been made to streamline and improve the report of the Standing Committee.

The low level of literacy has an aggravating effect.

Having adopted the text of the High level Declaration and Overarching Policy Strategy and recommended the use and further development of the Global Plan of Action for the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (hereinafter referred to as the Strategic Approach ),

It will also seek to improve financial management and accounting, particularly with respect to simplification of procedures and processes, and better meeting the needs of clients.

These recommendations encompass ways to simplify recruitment procedures, calling for further development of rapid response teams, standardized evaluation, and provision of adequate entitlement packages.

The Board intended to develop a better understanding of the breakdown of security related expenditure and would be conducting a further survey for that purpose.

In the interests of furthering the decolonization process he called for the reinstatement of the wording adopted by the Special Committee in 1996.

In response to the call for further United Nations consolidation, UNCDF will move much closer to UNDP financially, in accordance with the programme, budgetary and legal arrangements outlined below.

In that context, it had redefined and updated its work, restructured its organization, reduced its budget by more than 25 per cent and its staff by almost 40 per cent and streamlined its service delivery processes and its administrative procedures, without reducing its technical capability in the industrial field.

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Greater simplification and harmonization of procedures and more equal levels of delegated authority to the country level would also considerably strengthen the functioning of the resident coordinator system.

The recommendation is being implemented through the further refinement of the appointment and promotion process and the institution of record keeping on the progress of each case through the different phases of the recruitment process in order to analyse the causes of delay and to further streamline the process.

I should like briefly to point to two aspects where, in my opinion, Member States and the Committee must strive for further improvement.

20. A need for further trade liberalization so as to support notably vertical diversification was identified.