Planning is under way to secure permanent facilities.

During the period under review, UN Habitat has undertaken the physical and social planning of the two sites, while site preparation is in progress.

(c) Engage in human resources planning if they were not already doing so.

Various ESA member States had flown, were developing or were planning small missions.

The Secretariat s planning for future missions is now an integrated process combining both operational planning conducted by the Mission Planning Service and logistics planning by the Future Operations Unit of the Logistics and Communication Service, Field Administration and Logistics Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

UNEP is working on post disaster assessments of environmental impacts, with a view to incorporating environmental concerns into the design of processes of recovery and restoration.

These tables and the planning parameters of a new mission concept are being used as the basis of material resourcing plans.

Mr. President, your leadership of the General Assembly is charting the way forward.

A number of science support developments are under way, planned or announced.

The Office is planning its investigation and working actively in developing operational support.

This year, there was greater emphasis on mid term reviews due to the number of countries that were planning their new strategies and programmes in 2004.

A review of those questionnaires is now being carried out within the United Nations International Drug Control Programme.

The electoral process is moving ahead according to plan.

NASA technologies were being used to help map, plan and improve country development programmes.

The first four missions were fully funded, and their development was on schedule and within cost guidelines.

This phenomenon is currently being studied further under the UNEP Asian Brown Cloud Project.

Under this long term plan, detailed action programmes are in preparation.

The Bank was helping countries integrate climate change concerns into policy making and investment planning.

Recognizing the Caribbean Environment Outlook process currently being undertaken by the United Nations Environment Programme, and welcoming the support being provided by the Caribbean Environment Programme of the United Nations Environment Programme towards its implementation,

Priority issues for children are becoming more and more integrated into mainstream national planning processes.

(d) Improving planning and ensuring cost effective purchasing.

That appraisal will occur around the time of the five year anniversary of Habitat II and will therefore coincide with the first five year action planning cycle for national, local and partners plans of action.

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Talks are ongoing between the two parties in order to merge the two plans.

Work on updating the backlog in bank reconciliations is progressing according to schedule.

A review of the UNEP mode of operation as it relates to project management, personnel and financing is under way and, based on the results, a revision of the organization's operational modalities will be prepared.

The matter is under review by the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts with a view to issuing the document sometime during September 2006.

As a result of support from the Planning and Partnership Programme, the NPA and local plans of action at the aimag (province) level have been developed and are being implemented.

Most speakers also reported on legislative measures, including provisions on criminalization, or on ongoing or planned law reform aimed at ensuring the consistency of domestic legislation with the requirements of the Protocol.

Outlaws have no face to show themselves against armed troops.

Within the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts, both technical and substantive expertise is being strengthened.

The town planning legislation is also being revised, to simplify development rights affecting low income housing.

UNEP management has advised OIOS that implementation action was under way.

Planning for the rapid deployment of the United Nations.

Within the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, a planning process is under way to facilitate the development of a Department wide action plan on gender mainstreaming, which will include a training component for staff and senior managers at Headquarters and within field missions.

In this article, the recent and planned activities in the space debris field in Japan are briefly reviewed.

A full 20 per cent of the area s residents arrived during 1996.40 Planning and site work for 1,000 additional units is currently under way.

(d) Conducted an in depth analysis of existing and planned capacity building and technology support activities within the framework of the 2006 2007 programme of work (see information document UNEP GCSS.IX INF 13), to align the implementation of the approved programme of work with the Bali Strategic Plan requirements (see also section C of chapter III below).

The European Union encourages continued planning under an African Union coordinated framework.

Finally, UNEP will conduct more specific projects at the national level.

The social policy and planning function is being strengthened in support of common country planning including development of CCAs and UNDAFs as well as coordination with regional organizations and the World Bank.

This is now being used in several countries in Asia and Africa, and UNICEF is in discussion on ways of using MBB in country and district level planning for scaling up malaria programmes in Africa.

The present report provides a brief account of the Centre apos s ongoing and planned evaluation activities within the framework of this programme.

In the field of judicial reform, for example, it is estimated that in early 1998, 23 projects supported by the Bank are under way or have been completed, with a further seven planned, ranging from simple studies of the court system in the case of Indonesia and Sierra Leone to major reforms of the judicial branch in Bolivia, the Russian Federation and Venezuela.

Despite the logistical shortfalls referred to above, the ability of the Sierra Leone police to plan and conduct security operations is gradually improving.