Working with national policy frameworks

(i) National institutional and legislative frameworks

(a) National frameworks for sustainable development.

and strategic frameworks National Long Term Perspective Studies

In countries where national programme frameworks exist, country programmes are designed both in the context of and in support of such national frameworks.

(d) Developing national and subnational institutional frameworks that support the Millennium Development Goals.

(a) Formulating and strengthening national strategic planning and poverty reduction frameworks that integrate priorities for children and multi donor coordination frameworks for basic services

18. Budgetary autonomy of the National Counsel apos s Office

Countries ensure that their macroeconomic and public expenditure frameworks support and appropriately prioritize the implementation of national AIDS action frameworks and annual priority AIDS action plans.

UNDP assisted national authorities in a number of countries in developing national programme frameworks a necessary prelude to programme formulation.

National and global governance and policy frameworks can either promote or hinder social development, depending on the quality of governance and the policies formulated within such frameworks.

When requested, UNCDF will assist in the design of national policy and regulatory legal frameworks.

Integrate desertification control as necessary within strategic development frameworks (national plans for economic and social development and strategic poverty reduction frameworks) Mainstream desertification control activities in resource allocation to these strategic frameworks (investment plans or priority action programmes).

National focal points should periodically review the implementation of the frameworks and revise them as necessary.

Development frameworks

Development frameworks

UNEP has assisted Bahrain, Jordan and Yemen in developing frameworks for national state of the environment reports.

In addition to legislation, Governments depend on national sustainable development strategies to provide overall frameworks for implementation efforts.

13. Where national programme frameworks exist, they provide the basis for effective integration of local and external resources.

Strengthening regional frameworks

15. In several countries where the national authorities are convinced of the utility of the programme approach, Resident Representatives have been encouraged to help governments to develop national programme frameworks, where these do not exist, and to formulate UNDP support within these frameworks.

UNFPA advocates the integration of gender issues in broader national development frameworks, such as poverty reduction strategy papers, sector wide approaches and other national interventions.

Overall, few countries mention budgetary allocations to support implementation of their national action plans.

UNICEF will support national and subnational institutional frameworks that seek to address inequities in the short and long terms.

(b) Conducting national case studies and undertaking other background studies to be used as input for the policy frameworks

(b) national programming frameworks for the process of selecting projects, including a financial contribution in accordance with IAEA rules

(e) Their expanding, but still insufficient, capacity and institutional frameworks to deal with national desertification and drought problems and

(e) their expanding, but still insufficient, capacity and institutional frameworks to deal with national desertification and drought problems and

Regional and subregional frameworks

Such initiatives contribute to national and local agreements to make budgetary processes more gender responsive.

In addition, the UNEP GEF national biosafety frameworks development project has developed support tool kits for each major phase in the development of a national biosafety framework.

However, there remained a need to integrate sanitation into national sustainable development strategies and to develop national policy frameworks for sanitation by improving institutional coordination and decentralization.

Assistance is required to support national investment related institutions and policy advice to create regulatory frameworks conducive to attracting FDI.

The UNEP GEF Biosafety Unit manages 8 of the 12 GEF funded demonstration projects on implementation of national biosafety frameworks.

Implementation of national forest programmes. The proposals for action have effectively shaped the national forest programmes and their equivalents in many countries, and these national forest programmes have become national institutional frameworks for achieving sustainable forest management.

Many Parties developed national action plans for climate change, which serve as the frameworks for national planning and capacity building efforts by government agencies and across other sectors.

Our aim is to create frameworks for action tailored to national and local realities and to guide workplace and community initiatives.

Proposals on debt restructuring frameworks

Improved policy and legal frameworks

UNICEF will continue to work within a variety of national partnership frameworks, including sector coordination forums, SWAps and joint programmes under UNDAF.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, UNFPA has sought to ensure that young people's reproductive health issues are included in national processes and frameworks.

In an increasingly globalized world, the strategy emphasizes the need to develop appropriate linkages between concerted international action and national development frameworks.

For developing national institutional frameworks to implement the Guidelines, UNEP, in cooperation with UNITAR and FAO, provides technical assistance to developing countries, in particular national, subregional and regional training workshops.

(e) Development of proposals for socially inclusive macroeconomic policy frameworks for countries, incorporating regional linkages and utilizing the effective policymaking space available in the current international economic environment outreach at the national level towards building consensus around these frameworks

C. Insufficient policy frameworks and regulation