Activities and functions with dual employment should be eliminated.

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(b) Differing views on mandated functions and activities

(i) Make a clear distinction between the functions, responsibilities and activities of the Secretariat and those of the Global Mechanism.

Space and space related activities are conducted by various Departments and Agencies concurrent with their functions and interests.

Career related official tasks and activities

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that might be undertaken by the forum

Review of the terms of reference, operations and schedule of meetings of the CRIC

Their range of activity has widened considerably (scientific, educational and creative functions).

III. Summary of major activities by oversight function

(a) Management activities cover the overall policy and planning, organization and audit functions

11. The political or other activity of public officials outside the scope of their office shall, in accordance with laws and administrative policies, not be such as to impair public confidence in the impartial performance of their functions and duties.

Along with the expansion of inspection missions and the continuation of evaluations, a new investigation function was created, with IES designated as its central focal point.

Key performance targets and indicators for the operations functions are established in annex II.

UNDCP activities in policy development and methodology work also include normative functions.

Functional upgrading refers to increasing value added by acquiring new functions or abandoning existing ones so as to increase the overall skill content of a firm's activities.

The Service also performs a number of additional functions with respect to extrabudgetary activities.

The Section's substantive activities comprise the analytical, administrative and calculation processes required for the performance of the itemized functions listed below.

Work must continue on the allocation of roles, mandates and responsibilities at the various levels of UNIDO operational activities at country level strategic activities at regional level and the elaboration of norms and standards at Headquarters.

Space research activities are conducted by various agencies and institutes in the country in accordance with their functions.

The Committee is of the view that the definition of an output requires further refinement since the term comprises practically all activities of the Organization, whether they are substantive or support functions continuing services or one time action easily measurable or difficult to quantify.

(a) Ensuring a continuum in its work programme between research activities and its capacity building and technical cooperation functions

Regulation of trade union activities

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11. The political activity of public officials shall not be such as to impair public confidence in the impartial performance of their functions and duties.

The payroll function is not a mission critical activity for the United Nations system, although the sensitivity of timely and accurate payroll results makes it a high visibility function.

We also support reform of the Secretariat to allow it to perform its functions and activities with transparency.

To increase the skill and working capacities of workers as well as their economic self reliance several vocational and income generating training activities have been conducted for workers and employees of small scale industries.

Reaffirming the importance of the staff management consultative process to the functioning and activities of the Secretariat,

Global Environment Facility (GEF). The functions within the AIJ described for the host country participants included acting as a government contact for activity implementation, ownership of the facility at the activity site, local investor and developer, agencies that are responsible for reporting on and implementing AIJ, emissions testing, and activity evaluation.

Function within activity

(iv) Conducting and supporting research activities in occupational safety and health.

The tracking of outstanding closure of operationally closed projects using the Atlas functionality and reporting tools will continue.

The National Office is also the agency responsible for regulating and supervising all activities conducted in the country using sources of ionizing radiation for peaceful purposes.

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To do so will require the review of processes and the strengthening of financial accounting and reporting as a core discipline.

(d) Leaflets about the mandate and activities of its Anti Discrimination Unit disseminated in the six official languages.

In coordinating such activities, the distinct mandates, functions and impartiality of the various United Nations entities involved should be respected.

This will make it possible to define clearly the powers and duties of the public administration and the development activities to be carried out at the different levels and in the various parts of the country.

Under the terms of reference of this review, the Inspectors examined the efficiency and effectiveness of the Secretariat in carrying out its mandated functions and activities.

(b) Establishment of a balanced portfolio of activities relating to implementation of the environmental agreements and traditional industrial development functions in areas such as investment and technology promotion, small enterprise development and trade capacity building