Factors contributing to the paucity of gender statistics

Instead, they've become, sadly, uninspiring and uncreative organizations that rely so heavily on market research and polling and focus groups that they end up all saying the same thing, pretty much regurgitating back to us what we already want to hear at the expense of putting forward bold and creative ideas.

In fact, many cases have proven that it is precisely the lack of funds that has triggered creativity and led to innovations in governance.

Inertia, lack of action.

They cannot provide real collateral.

Inadequate monitoring and accountability mechanisms for gender mainstreaming are persistent institutional obstacles to enhancing the enabling environment for women's participation.

These problems have led in turn to the absence of integrated and unified customs, immigration, civil aviation and security services.

So if you override the hunger signal, you can have a disorder, which is called anorexia.

Persistent challenges include untrained staff, low salaries, lack of basic equipment, training and reference materials, gender inequity and lack of harmonization among secular, customary and Islamic laws.

Secondly, the term peacebuilding operations lacked legal precision, therefore giving rise to conceptual ambiguities that should be avoided.

Without good linkages between all these actors, knowledge will not be diffused and innovation promoted.

Unlike the US, the EU s difficulties stem not from a perceived lack of legitimacy or crude attempts at promoting democracy, but from a real lack of unity and, therefore, influence. The absence of a common denominator among EU governments positions has hardly been conducive to the emergence of the cogent and reliable diplomacy needed to address the Middle East s deep problems.

Additional constraints include lack of access to capital, limited alternative employment opportunities and a lack of appropriate technology.

The Committee is also concerned that in cases of non entry decisions (décision de non entrée en matière) the social benefits of asylum seekers are being curtailed significantly

It is not the lack of technology or technological innovation that hinders countries from fully leveraging this vehicle to socio economic progress and development, but the lack of commitment and adequate national efforts and or capacity to harness its potentials.

The first RRT decision found that the complainant's evidence lacked credibility and that some evidence was fabricated.

There is both a knowledge deficit and an understanding deficit.

But they lack spark they lack the ability to think creatively and think outside they don't know how to dream. And so what these Ivy League schools, and Oxford and Cambridge and so on, are starting to send a message to parents and students that they need to put on the brakes a little bit.

Financing for rehabilitation is unpredictable.

Duplication, overlap and inefficiencies had too often been the expensive result of a lack of coordination in programme planning and implementation.

They also lack the power to negotiate safe sex.

But the problem was a lack of resources, not a lack of willingness.

The majority of the people of Sierra Leone continue to be marginalized with regard to basic economic and social rights, including lack of adequate education, health care and potable water caused by a number of factors, such as illiteracy, poverty, corruption and deficiencies in good governance.

Intra State conflicts are a key reason for the lack of security, of investment and of development.

However, many of those commitments remain elusive owing to lack of capacity and tools, and even lack of agreement on future steps, which could appear as lack of international resolve to move forward decisively.

We are small countries, with small economies that lack fiscal diversity.

However, that is not because of a lack of awareness of the gravity of the phenomenon and its repercussions on the stability of the subregion.

The lack of information on the complex nature of disasters and the lack of models of good practice for disaster preparedness and response, as well as the lack of building codes and regulatory frameworks to support more effective urban planning processes, will need to be urgently addressed.

One is a lack of initiative your students don't self start.

We must address its weak democracy and its lack of representativeness.

Here are a number of things that we don't want illness, involuntary death, unnecessary suffering, cruelty, stunted growth, memory loss, ignorance, absence of creativity.

This is due largely to a lack of political will, inadequate budgetary resources and a failure to create and maintain a political and social environment where such violence would be unacceptable.

In several parts of the world where extensive stock rearing systems are used, it is indispensable to create conditions favouring the gradual emergence of a grazing right, in a context where the absence of a specific law on the use of grazing land is a major handicap.

The Committee is concerned at the lack of alternative care for these children.

The complainant Ms. O.C. was found to lack credibility, while her husband did not make a statement because of memory problems ostensibly arising from the incidents described above.

Advancing the development of informal and private sector activities will be crucial for job creation and income generation in the short term as the formal sector currently lacks sufficient capacity and the country's infrastructure remains weak.

Some Parties attributed the difficulties relating to vulnerability and adaptation assessment to the lack of country specific socio economic scenarios, the lack of collection, quality control, archiving, retrieval, preparation and analysis of data, and the lack of comprehensive studies on possible adaptation measures and cost benefit analysis of adaptation options (e.g. Brazil, China, India, South Africa).

Insecurity and lack of female doctors still prevent many women from seeking health care.

It was surprisingly non innovative, moved very slowly, but then there was just so much fiber out there, you couldn't hold back, and look how quickly the price fell.

In response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks, Vladimir Putin has demanded that even more power be vested in him. As leading Russian military expert Alexander Golts argues, the problem in Russia is not a lack of central power, but of power exercised incompetently and without individual initiative.

But such a lack of continuity and training may put at risk the cost effectiveness and consistency of deliveries.

The educational programme to eliminate gender stereotypes suffered from a lack of resources and teachers.

What is often presumed to indicate lack of commitment happens to be lack of capacity.

The lack of an adequate internal control environment is primarily due to resource constraints.

There are a few areas of concern such as funding, minimal political will and the lack of people with skills due to the negative effects of global immigration.