The need for rationalizing and revitalizing the work of the United Nations is becoming ever more apparent.

Efficiency gains already achieved and the possibility of further gains through streamlining and improved methods should be taken into account before additional resources were requested.

The Advisory Committee had made a number of recommendations aimed at achieving a more rational organizational structure and more transparent budgeting.

Those activities were essential for rationalizing the work of the Organization apos s human rights mechanisms and ensuring greater overall efficiency.

(d) Conducting and monitoring special projects in the areas of productivity strategy, streamlining of processes, and dissemination of best practices in management.

A full review of the budgetary and human resources rules under which the Organization operates, with a view to modernizing and streamlining them and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Secretariat.

And about the streamlining.

To ensure more efficient and effective desks and in order to rationalize them, OIOS recommended that the desk structures be reviewed with the aim to develop a standard.

In its decision 1993 313, the Council welcomed the action taken by ACC under the leadership of the Secretary General to enhance the effectiveness of its functioning and to streamline its subsidiary machinery.

The Movement is also committed to playing an active role in the ongoing consultations on improving the Assembly apos s working methods and the rationalization of its agenda in order to enhance its efficiency and effectiveness.

123. A number of delegations called for increased coordination and cooperation between UNEP and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) so as to achieve greater efficiency and rationalization of work.

We support our colleagues apos efforts to rationalize the work of the First Committee with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of the operation of United Nations machinery in the field of disarmament.

Thought should be given to streamlining it.

Statements referring to the rationalization of expenses are unrealistic.

All recognized the need to optimize, rationalize and streamline them.

This is a further reason why we are totally opposed to the idea of broadening the political scope of the functions of Resident Coordinators, a notion that has been advanced under the pretext of rationalization and increasing the Organization apos s efficiency.

and upgrading of skills

It viewed the rationalization of the work of the First Committee within the larger context of the rationalization of the work of the General Assembly.

We also need to test further the other rationalization ideas that have been mentioned.

Your position against innovation has deep roots.

A central focus of the Secretary General's 2002 reform proposals was improving the effectiveness of the network of United Nations information centres through rationalization and consolidation.

Thursday Friday Informal meetings on the rationalization

Budget proposals include not only changes in resource requirements, but also evidence of measures taken to rationalize the programme of work, streamline procedures, reallocate resources and achieve efficiency savings.

The Committee believes that the additional population activities could be carried out without an increase in resources ( 73,800) (see table 9.10) through more efficient management and rationalization of the work programme.

6. The Committee delegation had also held consultations with representatives of the NGO coordinating committees with a view to streamlining NGO activities sponsored by the Committee in order to make them more cost effective and focused.

47. Mr. MOHAMAD (Qatar) said that the members of the Joint Inspection Unit had made a very useful contribution to efforts to reform the Organization by rationalizing its work and enhancing the efficiency of its administrative and financial functioning.

The major effects of the streamlining and enhancement of the dissemination and retrieval of electronic information have been

Work on revitalizing the General Assembly and rationalizing its activities is also under way.

We regard rationalization work as a continuing and evolving process.

Objective 4 issue procedures for streamlining work methods.

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The agenda is also in need of some rationalization.

2. Assistance in the streamlining of the pattern

To the same end, United Nations libraries will be in the forefront of the use of information technology to meet the increasing demand for reliable information resources that support global problem solving. They will aim to take up a new role as a network of knowledge sharing communities, moving from collections to connections and from building and maintaining book and periodical collections to facilitating a knowledge enabled environment and the exchange of information among stakeholders.

They had taken an active part in the work of the Special Committee on Peace keeping Operations with the aim of streamlining and strengthening the United Nations capacity for peace keeping operations and improving their cost effectiveness.

18. His delegation supported draft resolution A C.1 48 L.28 and encouraged the Committee to make all possible efforts to adopt uniform texts in the near future with a view to rationalizing its work and achieving greater efficiency.

Latvia supports the efforts aimed at rationalizing the structure and the agenda of the General Assembly.

We must welcome this example of good management of resources and rationalization of work.

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But the exercise is a necessary one of rationalization.

An amazing level of rationalization that you couldn't do in a restaurant.

improve the managerial capacities and the skills

Such an adjustment also includes decision making on the basis of lessons learned with respect to what has worked and what has not, as well as continued improvement of management practices, rationalization of work, streamlining of procedures and increased efficiency.

49. The representative of the United States observed that it was important for the Committee to search for ways to rationalize its work, as other United Nations organs did, in order to become more efficient, responsive and cost conscious.

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