B. Policy coherence

(ii) Policy coherence for SME development

The importance of a coherent policy environment and

Experience shows that policy inconsistencies are apt to appear in a number of key policy areas.

Policy coherence implies not only the design of coherent policies but also clarity and consistency in their implementation, as well as an adequate response from the private sector.

This unquestionably leads to greater legitimacy for a Government's decisions.

Doing so also implies a rather different notion of policy coherence built around development ends rather than policy means.

The Federal Government is committed to the implementation of public policies that benefit the homosexual population.

building internal capacities for gender mainstreaming ensuring systematic gender mainstreaming in all programmes supporting the United Nations Resident Coordinator system developing mainstreaming tools, knowledge products and best practices and aligning human resources policies and practices with commitment to gender balance.

It was important to ensure coherence between all the different policy components and country ownership of those policy components.

Accordingly, a kind of policy coherence has evolved in the international trade and financial system around controlling the actions of sovereign States by prescribing a narrow and uniform range of acceptable policy instruments.

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Advancing global initiatives that strengthen policy coherence, both nationally and internationally, is crucial.

Thus, among other things, policies which have a bearing on entrepreneurship and the development of enterprises, such as monetary, fiscal, trade and exchange rate policies, will need to be consistent with sectoral and firm level policies.

UNCTAD policy work in this area is a useful tool in ensuring coherence.

Because there is this asymmetry, which creates, basically, failing governance.

(b) Policy coherence for SME development

Under the overall guidance of the General Assembly, periodic review of policies adopted in the area of operational activities should be undertaken at the operational activities segment of the Economic and Social Council to ensure the coherence and consistency of policies with the policy guidelines established by the General Assembly in the triennial comprehensive policy review.

The gender impact assessment did not lead to any significant changes in the policy document.

Accordingly, he stressed the need for a coherent policy environment which linked macro and sectoral policies, including the timing and sequencing of liberalization policies, with firm level efforts to expand supply capacity and to attain and maintain competitiveness.

But, a requirement prior to preparing such guidelines is the building of a consensus among all of the MEC Departments on the need for gender policies within education.

Coherence and consistency of relevant policies, laws and regulations need to be improved so as to remove some of the barriers to the implementation of climate change strategies.

There was a risk of inconsistency of protection policy.

While a regular and effective government private sector dialogue is essential for the creation of a coherent policy framework for enterprise and SME development, policy coherence implies not only the design of coherent policies but also clarity and consistency in their implementation.

The accounting policies were applied on a basis consistent with that of the preceding financial period

In Africa, the strategic partnership of UNIFEM with the Inter Governmental Authority for Development led to the endorsement of a regional gender policy by ministers of gender, and to the preparation of a draft gender policy in the Sudan.

General characteristics of policies and measures

18. Policy coherence can often be difficult to achieve at the enterprise level.

14. UNCTAD should review the coherence between trade and micro policies and its impact on SMEs.

Without a clear policy, the legitimacy of the action on the ground will come under scrutiny, potentially leading to more instability.

Currently, the OECD was trying to establish a policy framework for investment, one that would be non prescriptive and non binding, would consist of a checklist of policies in support of an attractive investment environment and could be used voluntarily with a strong focus on policy coherence.

Other examples of the use of government private sector dialogue in order to achieve policy coherence included Singapore and Taiwan, Province of China.

The conditional aspects of emancipation policy require more consistent attention.

It is often suggested that what is called the subprime crisis was the result of lax monetary policies that led to excess liquidity in financial markets. But there is an obvious paradox here, because how can an excess of liquidity result ultimately in a shortage of liquidity that has to be made up by central banks?

Peru is committed to fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals not as part of the policy of one particular Government, but as a State policy.

Coherence between the intelligence, assessment, law enforcement and policy arms of government.

Furthermore, proactive science and technology policies and a coherent FDI policy approach could play a catalytic role in increasing R D FDI in developing countries.

The crisis had shown the importance of promoting greater coherence between trade and macroeconomic, social and other policies.

The two concepts of consistency and flexibility were not necessarily in conflict with one another together they could become the foundations for the development of modern personnel policies that responded to the times.

The policies are consistent with those which the Office applied in prior years when it was part of UNDP.

For girls and women it was imperative that the government responds with coherent policies of family planning, and to revive the debate on abortion, sexuality and adolescent pregnancy.

(b) There was a need for improved policy guidance to clarify the basis of the Programme s activities and to ensure consistency of treatment, programme wide

Ensuring policy coherence is a major Government responsibility.