The role of lead (pivotal) countries

(b) One or more United Nations agencies take a lead role

It also calls for strengthening the lead role of the General Assembly.

UNICEF played a lead role in procurement of ACTs for Burundi, Ethiopia and Sudan.

So it does play a social role, however it may not necessarily lead to political engagement.

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.

Secondly, the lead role of the United Nations as the peacebuilding coordinator must be brought into full play.

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

To lead the international effort, we need UNAMI to increasingly fulfil the role outlined in Security Council resolution 1546 (2004).

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).

(b) Can the lead (pivotal) countries of the South play an effective role in addressing the unresolved elements of trade negotiations?

The Secretary General applauded the commitment by the High Commissioner to take the lead role in protection, emergency shelter and camp coordination in situations of internal displacement, while noting this expanded role should not detract from UNHCR's role with regard to refugees.

Such interaction should lead to financial savings and better coordination of project implementation and should also ensure UNIDO's independence and unique role.

The United Nations is best placed to play the lead role in embarking upon a capacity building programme specifically earmarked to eradicate poverty.

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

Lead or pivotal countries can be defined as developing countries which, by virtue of their capacities and experience are positioned to play a lead role in the promotion and application of technical cooperation activities through South South cooperation.

The lasting stability of the province will be possible only if an agreed international strategy is elaborated, with the Security Council playing a lead role.

In light of rural women's lead role in food production, Governments should provide greater support for access to microfinance, seed supplies and technologies to women.

Now, however, the Member States that put forward a draft text tended to lead the negotiations that followed, diminishing the President's role in this area.

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.

Welcoming, in this regard, the important role played by the International Security Assistance Force and its respective lead nations in improving security conditions in and around Kabul,

With the transformation of the Organization of African Unity into the African Union in 2000, Africans are taking a lead role in preventing and resolving African conflicts.

The present component will be achieved primarily through a capacity building approach in which the UN Habitat Training and Capacity Building Branch will play a lead role.

In such a case, it is imperative for the international community to take the lead in peacebuilding until a new Government starts to perform its role effectively.

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

One delegation called on UNICEF to play a lead role in issues related to slavery and child trafficking and suggested establishing a global partnership to end the practices.

Reaffirming that the operational activities for development of the United Nations system have an important role to play in enabling developing countries to continue to take a lead role in the management of their own development process in a continuously changing global context,

95. Invites the United Nations Environment Programme and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission to jointly undertake the role of lead agencies, under the guidance of the Ad Hoc Steering Group

One or more United Nations agencies should be appointed to take a lead role in executing the Assessment of Assessments , under the guidance of the ad hoc steering group.

For its part, the Supreme Court has assumed a lead role in the training of judges through the establishment of the Judicial Education and Training Committee in June 2005.

Terms of reference have been developed for a human resources task force, which has a lead role in developing strategy proposals for the Commissioner General and the Management Committee.

The conclusions and recommendations in the report confirm that the United Nations must, and indeed is, playing a lead role in the implementation of a comprehensive approach in this area.

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.

My delegation notes with gratitude that the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea has continued to play a lead role in capacity building initiatives targeting developing countries.

Japan also attaches great importance to the improvement of the coordination mechanism, in particular to the ongoing discussion on the cluster lead and the strengthening of the role of humanitarian coordinators.

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.

Welcoming, in this regard, the important role played by both the International Security Assistance Force and its respective lead nations in improving security conditions in and around Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan,

In its role as IASC cluster lead for water supply and sanitation, UNICEF will ensure that emergency interventions supported by the cluster agencies conform to national norms and standards as much as possible.

UNPOS played the lead role in coordinating international support for the Transitional Federal Government to implement the agreements reached at the Somali National Reconciliation Conference and bring greater peace and stability to the country.

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Expressing its deep concern that emerging approaches to the broader role of nuclear weapons as part of security strategies could lead to the development of new types, and rationalizations for the use, of nuclear weapons,

America not only took the lead role in building the institutions of a globalizing world the United Nations, World Bank, IMF, NATO it also became the model that many other countries looked to for inspiration.

Within the United Nations system, WHO has a recognized global policy setting, normative and coordination role in public health and is designated by the IASC to be the lead agency on health action during crises.