Regional and local development planning and monitoring for UNDP.

(a) Regional planning and urban development to achieve a coherent allocation of resources and investments on development

The Regional Director praised the Medium Term Development Plan devised by the Ministry of Planning of the Palestinian Authority as a framework for progress.

Regional Council for Planning and Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning, Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning

The work of UNEP with the regional and subregional ministerial forums on the environment provides a crucial link between its policy and programme development and the actual concerns in the regions.

UNEP facilitates the operation of 10 regional and subregional networks involving 147 developing countries, as well as 14 developed countries and the European Commission.

(c) Integrated development planning for poverty alleviation in arid zone of central Myanmar , which involves China and Myanmar also under the TCDC programme and is designed for the development of methodologies and models for dynamic analysis required for regional development planning.

Arab Regional Plan for the Survival, Protection and Development of Child

The aim of such regional frameworks was to enhance the planning and monitoring of the various activities conducted in specific regions and to harmonize the efforts of States in the same region or subregion.

Developing countries, regional groupings and the Set of Principles and Rules

UNEP Regional Seas Programme

State Secretary of Environment and Regional Planning

The aim of those regional components was to be in a better position to plan and monitor the various activities conducted in specific regions and to harmonize the efforts of countries in the same region or subregion.

Poverty alleviation is the priority area of sustainable development planning in Nepal.

GIS can be used to model various hazard and risk scenarios for planning the future development of an area.

(o) Developing necessary and relevant statistical data (numerical and non numerical) to facilitate the planning, monitoring and evaluation of social and economic progress in the region

9. South Pacific Regional Environment Programme

UNEP efforts towards initiating the implementation of the Bali Strategic Plan in the 2006 2007 biennium will be employed both at the national, and also and importantly at the regional and subregional levels, where UNEP has a particular strength.

It was also suggested that the countermeasures should be developed into an action plan for implementation at the regional and subregional levels.

The National Plan of Action addresses all these issues within the context of planned settlements development.

It is envisaged that United Nations Volunteers will be mobilized in such specialized areas as civil engineering, economic planning, small business development, physical planning and agricultural extension. Regional expertise will be mobilized through technical cooperation among developing countries programmes and exchanges.

Its aim is to develop a software application that will support the planning of and reporting upon UNHCR operations within the context of regional and corporate strategic plans. A prototype of the

Model 1 Regional centre located in a UNEP regional office

Developing countries, regional groupings and the

Recalling that another main objective of regional action programmes is to develop and strengthen regional coordinating mechanisms, established in the regional annexes to the Convention,

47. UNDP will also continue to assist the Palestinian Authority in the area of development planning and aid coordination.

And since the national dimension of development went hand in hand with the regional dimension of development cooperation, the strengthening of such cooperation might offer new opportunities for technical cooperation among developing countries, of which Algeria was a very strong supporter.

They are now extensively engaged in respective regional development programmes, together with the Government.

The National Urban Development Programme focuses on four operational areas the One Hundred Cities Programme, aiming at strengthening the capacity of cities to receive investments and promote development the programme for the consolidation of metropolitan areas the promotion of regional planning and the strengthening of the legal framework for urban development as well as the programme for the promotion of social and private sector participation in urban development.

COMMITTEE FOR DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

Committee for Development Planning

COMMITTEE FOR DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

Policy planning and development

The strategy of the Government on regional and urban development focuses on the preparation of urban development plans, human resources development, the establishment of an Urban Regional Development Joint Commission and Technical Committees, and the creation of the Financial System for Urban Development.

(c) Ensuring that gender issues are adequately reflected and addressed in regional intergovernmental forums or conferences related to poverty reduction, public expenditure, regional integration, enterprise development, governance, conflict resolution and peace processes

Regional Bureau for Africa

The Board of auditors has audited the operations of the Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) at the headquarters of UNEP at Nairobi, the UNEP Regional Office for Asia and Pacific at Bangkok and the Regional Coordinating Unit for the East Asian Seas Action Plan at Bangkok.

UNDCP advocacy work and its involvement with SADC follow its strategy of contributing, through regional institutions, to the establishment and strengthening of regional programmes in drug control.

B. Committee for Development Planning

(f) Committee for Development Planning.

571 (XXVII) Poverty, population and fiscal expenditures (subprogrammes 3, 4, 5 and 6)

A training course on planning for sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region was jointly organized with the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok.

3. The audit was carried out at the headquarters of UNEP at Nairobi, the UNEP Regional Office for Asia and Pacific at Bangkok and the Regional Coordinating Unit for the East Asian Seas Action Plan at Bangkok.

20.15 The Presiding Officers provide overall direction to the work of the Secretariat on issues related to the integration of women into development in the region, in accordance with paragraph 88.2 of the Regional Plan of Action on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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