Several initiatives started during the last biennium affected management and operational services and brought about a rationalized division of responsibilities and clustered operational support.

The Special Committee welcomes initiatives that are being taken to improve the operational effectiveness of United Nations peacekeeping operations.

and initiatives in Africa initiatives

The Community Support Framework remains the main financing means of intervention (through Sectoral and Regional Operational Programmes), together with Community Initiatives and other Community Programmes.

Initiatives are therefore under way to enhance the structural framework and related training so as to improve programming, operational response and control and monitoring mechanisms.

The strategy of the secretariat towards the promotion of synergies among relevant conventions relies on four main pillars, namely strengthening institutional linkages testing operational options including capacity building initiatives developing common policies and strategies and supporting country driven initiatives.

OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF

Concerning joint programming, some speakers said that the initiatives seeking greater coherence and streamlining of operational activities would result in lower transaction costs for national counterparts.

Concerning joint programming, some speakers said that the initiatives seeking greater coherence and streamlining of operational activities would result in lower transaction costs for national counterparts.

The operational initiatives launched by Mr. Ayala Lasso sending human rights monitors to Rwanda, for instance have received early and concrete support from Belgium, among others.

United Nations reform is increasingly being seen as a series of interlinked policy, programme and operational actions, and any additional measures should link clearly to ongoing initiatives.

Such initiatives distort the legitimate nature of those departments in Member States which deal exclusively with operational activities, in accordance with relevant resolutions of the General Assembly.

Operational

OIOS found many examples of scaling up in the operational aspects of the global programmes and other initiatives of the Regional Office for Africa and the Arab States.

In addition to the regional reviews, the Committee also considered the Office's Global Programmes and partnerships, covering operational agreements with United Nations agencies as well as sector specific initiatives.

Regional initiatives

Country initiatives

New initiatives

Tricontinental initiatives

Other initiatives

Regional initiatives

Partnership initiatives

International initiatives

Other initiatives

International initiatives

Other initiatives

Partnership initiatives

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Sectoral Initiatives

Operational activities

Operational activities

Operational costs

Operational methods

Operational activity

Operational costs

Operational procedures.

Operational issues

Operational performance

Operational issues

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Operational Account

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