One project s work programme suffered from the routine diversion of project professional staff to non project tasks.

Long term programme of support for Haiti (agenda item 7 (e))

Further projects comprising a special component for the development of rural women that are implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and run with the technical supervision of the Unit are as follows

36. The Board considers that such delays in the execution of projects defeat the objectives of the projects substantially.

PSLM Project Legal Situation of Woman

Apart from this some local governments also promote local cultural and neighbourhood projects.

In addition, peacebuilding projects should make the best possible use of local human resources and local ownership.

101. Although local circumstances may dictate the use of the traditional project approach, resident coordinators report a process of gradual transition from the project approach to the programme approach or at least, the programme approach is considered a longer term objective of all country offices.

99. Problems in the recruitment of project professionals seriously affected the performance of two projects.

The LADA project will bring benefits to Parties to the Convention as it will allow a better allocation of resources and the formulation of projects that can be submitted to different potential donors for national and regional action.

These multiple experiences have been successfully combined in capacity building projects at the local level.

impact

In particular, beneficiaries should be more involved in the formulation of programmes and projects.

Project programme

Continental Project RASCOM

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C. Field projects

(c) Field projects

One such project was a rural finance project whereby villages created local savings banks to make loans for local development schemes.

The state start up capital to enterprises gives preference to projects related to local production and use of local raw materials and projects for the development of the tourism service.

In Croatia, UNOPS executed the programme on behalf of the United Nations Mine Action Service.

Other measures included agricultural projects, projects to improve the situation of rural women and a programme for granting land title to indigenous people living in urban areas.

This is particularly important since the majority of projects and programmes, such as those in schools, are implemented at the local level.

The aim of the project is to identify the peoples' adaptation techniques and traditional knowledge in coping with dryland conditions.

Currently, UNOPS is experiencing enormous difficulty generating the nearly 3 100 project level client reports cost effectively and efficiently.

Programmatic details are provided below for headquarters, field operations and project and programme activities.

(iii) Field projects (extrabudgetary) 151 (80 national, 36 regional and 35 interregional projects) are currently planned.

Food for work and land clearance projects are being carried out in Phnom Malai and in Kampot (Phnom Vour).

Item 5 could also serve as an umbrella for action on substantive matters that are not specified elsewhere on the agenda and have yet to be defined.

Project proposals are written by the regional mine officers of the Centre, according to the priorities assigned by national and local authorities.

In the cities involved in the pilot, the project led to networks of elderly homosexuals and local welfare institutions being set up.

Apart from the associations apos work and counselling tasks the Länder and local governments subsidize cultural but also social projects.

As to the suggestion that the future of the regular programme of technical cooperation should depend on its impact on the ground, she noted that projects implemented under the programme were designed to build local capacity and that their impact on the attainment of development goals was therefore difficult to assess.

To date, the CORE programme has helped create and support 18 large and 53 small scale project initiatives, all aimed at encouraging self sufficiency at the local level.

The opening meeting of the COP would take up item 1 of the provisional agenda.

Item 2 (h). Date and venue of the fourth session of the Conference of the Parties

The results of these studies clearly indicate that the experience of LADA Argentina in assessing land degradation at local level is replicable in other participating countries.

A. The site of the project

UVA has also been involved in research for UNRISD, published on the 30th September 2002, titled Synthesis Paper Partnership for a Better Urban Future. The project was called Voluntary Action Local Democracy (UNRISD UNV). The project focussed on gathering information about the relationships and collaboration between communities and local governments across nine cities in the world.

Progamme, programme support and projects

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D. Parties to the project

Project programme title

This project is jointly implemented by MED POL, local authorities, local non governmental organizations (NGOs) and RAMOGE.

18. The Office informed the Board of one case of write off involving a loss of 146,769 incurred when a payment was incorrectly made to a third party.