Maximizing the effectiveness of the combined audit effort requires close coordination.

The coordination challenges in any disaster recovery effort are often complex.

Coordination and harmonization of activities bring their own costs but the effort is important.

15. The coordination of technical assistance is crucial, for a lack of coordination has ramifications exceeding the obvious duplication of effort and waste of resources.

Moreover, coordination of all types of external assistance must be done by the recipient Government, to ensure better coherence and coordination of the relief effort.

Therefore, more effort should be deployed to ensure coordination of methods of work and the substantive issues examined.

22. The report goes on to say, quot Nevertheless, coordination requires even greater effort.

Creating such an environment requires either the combined effort of all countries or a new phase of regional coordination.

Naturally, national authorities lead that coordination effort with the possible support of the United Nations system and other international organizations.

But this is a multifaceted effort. We need more training, better intelligence, better forces and better coordination.

Under that approach, national ownership was both the starting point and a key objective of the effort to enhance system wide coordination.

I simply wish to add that this effort for cooperation and coordination should take place especially in the field.

We believe that that coordination effort is bringing the first positive results, and we are committed to its effectiveness.

A chance for international organizations to combine resources in a cooperative effort and supervise the coordination work in this area.

quot More attention and effort should be devoted to developing practical cooperation, coordination and mutual support among external oversight organs.

It would be appropriate to continue this effort with a view to better coordination of action in the field of the prevention and settlement of disputes.

Overall coordination of programme activities has the advantage of avoiding duplication of effort and disparity of approach both within the programme and within the United Nations system.

There is a strong need for better coordination and accountability among donors and recipients to improve funding effectiveness and to reduce duplication of effort.

The role of non governmental organizations and the private sector is an important component of any programme and they should be partners in the coordination effort.

The Convention against Corruption was essential to that effort, inasmuch as it provided a framework for improved international coordination and cooperation.

Enhanced cooperation and coordination between the United Nations and the CSCE will also make it possible to reduce duplication of effort and to improve effectiveness.

Given the significant humanitarian implications of demobilization processes, a concerted effort is now being made to identify factors that will improve overall planning and coordination.

Nevertheless, the Committee believes that every effort should be made to ensure better planning and coordination, especially in the areas of procurement of goods and deployment of personnel.

As part of the effort to enhance mutual reinforcement between intergovernmental and inter agency coordination work, he also serves as Secretary of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), reporting, in that capacity, to the Secretary General.

Lessons emerging from the recovery effort in Bam suggest that shortcomings in the planning and coordination of recovery efforts led to key revitalization efforts being overlooked.

I would like to stress three elements related to humanitarian coordination first, the effort to improve humanitarian coordination through reform of the United Nations humanitarian system secondly, the need to meet the humanitarian needs of internally displaced people and thirdly, situations of transition.

The Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit, established by the Department of Humanitarian Affairs, supports the overall effort by handling matters of access, emergency programme strategy, security and needs assessment.

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With the Institute's coordination, the first national youth programme was established, its is a combined effort among young people, society and the Government.

The Security Council and its counter terrorism bodies are entering an important phase, and every effort should be made to ensure proper coordination.

STRENGTHENING OF THE COORDINATION COORDINATION OF THE POLICIES AND

The European Union had been discussing how to improve coordination of its own disaster reduction efforts, but it remained committed to contributing to an increased international effort.

A large scale effort to assist in the national election held in Angola in September 1992 focused on the coordination of foreign assistance and on logistical support.

The objective of coordination at Headquarters level and in the field is to ensure the best possible outcome through efficient use of available donor resources with no duplication of effort.

The effort was one of the most complex in the history of WFP, which spearheaded the coordination of logistics on behalf of the United Nations system through the Joint Logistics Centre.

81. The Unit believes that more attention and effort should be devoted to developing practical cooperation, coordination and mutual support among external oversight organs.

161. A large scale effort to assist in the national election held in Angola, in September 1992, focused on the coordination of foreign assistance and on logistical support.

A more integrated effort and more coordination of the different components of the United Nations system will be required if the objectives of social and economic development are to be attained.

Every effort will continue to be made to ensure the clear delineation of coordination functions from those to be carried out directly by the operational United Nations agencies themselves.

In paragraph 673, the Board recommends that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs overhaul accounting procedures and systems to reduce the volume of manual processing effort and improve efficiency.

As part of this coordination effort, we need to agree on detailed guidelines on how we cooperate with our humanitarian and development partners in the sequencing and the implementation of priorities.

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By dovetailing the contributions of different partners based on the comparative advantage of each into a coherent national effort, programme frameworks represent the best means of ensuring coordination among donors, under national leadership.