Programme Area B Knowledge, Information and Advisory Services on Finance

Financial resources and transfer of technology and know how

At the heart of the UNFPA knowledge sharing strategy are knowledge assets, used to capture, synthesize and share experiential knowledge within the organization.

The system is radically underfunded and in need of greater expertise.

(a) The Bank through its Drylands Knowledge Node would support the GM by generating and disseminating information and knowledge on technical issues and financial resource information flows

Such complementary resources could be in innovation, organizational or marketing knowledge, research and development, and finance.

The same principle would apply to information regarding financial needs, which would need to be translated into knowledge on effective resource utilization.

All LDCs that meet basic investment criteria will be able to benefit from UNCDF expertise and investment.

It requires substantial amounts of capital, significant expertise and technological resources, and it has long development lead times.

It could transfer not only financial resources but also knowledge and technology, provide access to new markets and supply, and stimulate the upgrading of the enterprise sector.

The packaging of advice would naturally draw on the inventory of financial needs, data base on financial sources and knowledge generated through the marketing activities.

UNIFEM s approach to knowledge management is about using knowledge that resides in UNIFEM and in its web of partnerships and alliances, and giving it coherent form.

The potential of the currently under funded thematic programme networks for leveraging knowledge management in Africa must similarly be sustained.

In budgetary matters, an enormous amount of money is being processed, the expertise and detailed information on its application and use rests within the executive, extremely complex financial instruments are used, and pressures to use shortcuts to respond to crises are compelling .

The GM would transform, for example, information on a source of finance into knowledge on its relevance and utility for CCD implementation.

This contributes to the body of knowledge on decentralization and local development and keeps UNCDF interventions at the cutting edge.

The Court is fully aware of the difficult budgetary conditions in which the Organization finds itself, and recognizes its own responsibility to apply its funds wisely.

. IFAD has expertise and knowledge in financing projects and programmes directed at ensuring maximum flow of resources to local populations.

Mr. Rao (World Intellectual Property Organization) said that his organization had been involved for decades in dealing with issues relating to traditional knowledge, genetic resources and the folklore of indigenous communities.

Poverty is inseparably linked to a lack of control over resources, including land, skills, knowledge, capital and social connections.

It could transfer not only financial resources but also knowledge and technology, provide access to new markets and supply, and stimulate the upgrading of the enterprise sector.

28. Following a request by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the travel arrangements of the beneficiaries of travel grants from the Fund were changed to allow them also to participate in the Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples, organized by WIPO on 23 and 24 July 1998. The World Intellectual Property Organization paid for the extra days of stipend for the beneficiaries.

A level playing field, access to finance, knowledge and skills are also indispensable for the private sector to flourish.31

Internationalization can help in this process by improving competitiveness through, for example, access to finance, technology and know how.

The World Intellectual Property Organization has an ongoing programme addressing traditional knowledge and genetic resources.

Salary levels depended normally on the qualifications of the employee education, intellectual ability, special skills, knowledge of languages and the like.

10. Global knowledge base on mineral resource potential.

In 2000 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) had established an Intergovernmental Committee with a mandate to discuss intellectual property issues arising from access to genetic resources and benefit sharing, and the protection of traditional knowledge and folklore.

This shaping process can result in a reconfiguration of technologies, but it requires financial resources and considerable technical and organizational expertise.

Assistance may take the form of expertise, advisory services, training courses, workshops and seminars, fellowships, grants and the provision of information and documentation.

IFAD, FAO and the World Food Programme (WFP) should continue the work undertaken on livelihood in documenting and protecting traditional ecological knowledge, especially as means for preparing resources management plans, taking into account the intellectual property implications of documenting and publishing such knowledge.

We have the capacity, and we have the knowledge and resources.

We have the knowledge and the resources to do something about it.

WIPO will also provide winners with financial rewards.

The GM should identify the potential partners and the sources of expertise required in both the technical and financial aspects of the programmes and projects.

Policy makers were reminded that they need to be concerned not only with the overall size of financial transfers but also with the composition of flows since some flows are more likely to be sustained than others.

Whenever funding permitted, the national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies provided sustainable long term financial resources, technical assistance and knowledge at the community level.

Countries provide details of inventories that record traditional knowledge, adding that much (potentially very beneficial) knowledge is still being captured.

We reaffirm our commitment to work towards the mobilization of substantial financial resources and other forms of support for affected developing country Parties, particularly those in Africa to encourage the channelling of funds from the private sector, foundations and other non governmental sources and to promote and facilitate access by affected country Parties to appropriate technology, knowledge and know how, including traditional knowledge

Source International Bureau of WIPO, http www.wipo.int .

In 1997, the Non Governmental Organizations Fund was established to provide start up grants to emerging local non governmental organizations to enhance their expertise, management skills and assistance capacity.

Fourthly, the confidentiality of information must be protected, including intellectual property rights.

We've got the tools, the knowledge and the cash, and commitment to preventing HIV too.

Thus, it is recommended that the following costs, associated with contractual services, be separated from other operational expenses

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