(c) Lead Agency Concept

(d) As the lead agency for the nutrition sector in emergencies, as designated by the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC), UNICEF will lead coordination efforts nationally, regionally and globally.

UNDP is the lead agency for monitoring at the country level.

As the IASC designated sector lead agency for emergencies, UNICEF is mandated to lead coordination efforts nationally, regionally and globally.

Overall the Agency continued to increase its lead role in terms of growing drug seizures, inter agency cooperation and regional drug enforcement operations.

As an alternative, UNICEF warmly supports the lead agency concept as noted above (paragraph 6).

Sectoral clusters of agencies have worked over the summer months to examine the possible role of a lead agency in each sector, complemented by the activities of others in the corresponding cluster, in order to suggest which agency should assume that lead role.

2. Invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to serve as the lead agency for the year

The Head of Tbilisi office of UNHCR, the lead United Nations agency on the issue, participated in the meeting.

UNICEF has offered to act as the lead agency for the subnational integrated United Nations offices in two districts.

In that context, UNESCO, the lead United Nations agency for the Decade, must continue to play an important role.

In addition, issues related to inter agency cooperation could be discussed here by introducing the scenario that claims to the consumer protection agency lead to the law enforcement agencies getting involved.

Through the Inter Agency Standing Committee, UNICEF was taking on new roles in humanitarian crises, including lead agency designation for nutrition, for water and sanitation, as well as for common data services.

UNICEF and the World Bank collaborated to better link UNGEI (where UNICEF is a designated lead agency) with the Education For All Fast Track Initiative (where the World Bank takes a lead role).

In 2005, the IASC designated UNICEF to lead the inter agency cluster working group on water supply and sanitation in emergencies.

The lead agency or agencies should establish a group of experts to undertake the actual work of assessing the various assessments.

The documents will be produced using a standard template and one agency will take the lead on producing each of the manuals.

It is the lead agency in the UNAIDS co sponsor group dealing with the issue of injecting drug use in prison settings.

There exists an Inter Agency Procurement Group for sharing information on suppliers and for implementing the Lead Agency Concept, which however does not seek to streamline and pool procurement operations under a single chain of authority.

The project, now awaiting approval from the Government of India, will be managed by one lead agency and will implement one joint workplan.

Finally, the European Union pays tribute to the work of UNESCO as lead agency for the Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace.

The Government participates in a coordinated national network involved in emergency planning, training and response, and coordination lead by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

It is our common responsibility to address that unacceptable reality through initiatives that can lead to a substantial increase in their number in the Agency.

In that regard, UNESCO, as the lead agency of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, would have an important role to play.

All UNICEF regional offices are major contributors to the support and oversight for common country programming and UNICEF has acted as lead agency in several regions.

Since then, several agencies have formally decided to implement the SAP HR solution pioneered by UNICEF, therefore de facto endorsing the JIU recommended lead agency concept.

UNICEF, together with WHO, has been identified as the lead agency for annual reporting in the Secretary General's progress reports for all of the health related Goals.

In that context, UNICEF has already been designated by SAP as the lead agency to maintain and enhance the ERP solution for human resources, payroll, and grants.

In 2005, in the context of the Humanitarian Response Review and the Intergovernmental Discussion on Reforms of the United Nations Humanitarian System, the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) designated UNICEF as the lead agency for the cluster on water supply and sanitation.

Mr. Sundaram (Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development) stressed that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) was the lead agency in responding to natural disasters.

On the sharing of procurement performance benchmarks and best practices (recommendation 1) and the concept of lead procurement agency (recommendation 2), it should be noted that since 2004, the HLCM has incorporated the work of the Inter Agency Procurement Working Group (IAPWG) into the HLCM agenda.

In the view of the second International Workshop, the Assembly should invite UNEP and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO to undertake jointly the role of lead agency or agencies.

Designates the World Tourism Organization as the lead agency of the United Nations system for coordinating the activities of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Peace and Poverty Eradication

In paragraph 207, the Board recommended that UNICEF review the means necessary to fully discharge its sectoral lead responsibilities for the relevant cluster in the Inter Agency Standing Committee framework.

IAPWG should adopt, approve and implement the concept of lead agency and promote a division of labour among the organizations, aimed at further rationalization of procurement practices by its members.

Emphasis will be placed on establishing lead agency roles, increasing the level of common contracting within the United Nations and outsourcing non essential commodities to United Nations agencies and selected distributors.

In paragraph 735, the Board recommends that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs take the lead role in ensuring effective inter agency coordination in the provision of emergency assistance.

Indonesia is fully confident that under his excellent leadership, characterized by a high degree of diplomatic and technical professionalism, which has earned the respect and trust of the member countries, he will lead the Agency to the successful accomplishment of our collective objectives and the tasks of the Agency.

A decade had passed since the Dayton Peace Agreement, which had reaffirmed UNHCR as the lead humanitarian agency for the return and reintegration of refugees and displaced persons in the former Yugoslavia.

More specifically, the Office contributed a chapter entitled Human rights, gender and trade a legal framework and other inputs to a book, Trade and Gender Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries, published by UNCTAD, as the lead agency in the Inter Agency Task Force on Trade and Gender, in June 2004.

Slowly ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

Currently there is no national information centre for water and sanitation, which is due in part to the institutional weakness of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPAS), the lead agency.

As the lead agency in Colombia, the only nation in Latin America where mines were still being sown, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was putting the main emphasis on mine risk education.

UNEP's CAP team supports the Ozone Secretariat in monitoring the status of implementation of licensing systems especially in countries where UNEP is the lead agency or is implementing the Institutional Strengthening (IS) projects.

Support the building of an international infrastructure consortium involving the African Union, NEPAD, the World Bank and the African Development Bank to be recognized by NEPAD as the lead agency for facilitating infrastructure investment