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It is critical that increased international assistance continues to be directed to Malawi to support its efforts on ratification and domestication of international human rights instruments and the concerted steps being undertaken by the Malawi Government and other players to ensure full compliance by Malawi of her state party reporting obligations. (...) Further, the limited utilisation of human rights based approaches in court decisions and culture undoubtedly play a big role in fueling the marginalisation of women and female children. (...) It is critical that increased international assistance continues to be directed to Malawi to support programmes that the Malawi Government, MHRC and other players are implementing directed at: educating the general public on issues of women’s rights, gender- based violence and the relevant laws; capacity building of law enforcement agencies, including through training to enable them entrench human-rights-based-approaches; law reform and human rights monitoring and investigations.

• On 9 November 2007, while commenting his clearly racist attitude towards Armenian chess players, Azerbaijani chess player Teymur Rajabov in an interview to “APA Sport” said: “The enemy is the enemy. (...) The head coach of the Azerbaijani football club Kapaz, had invited Armenian football players for an audition, however, it was reported that he had no prior knowledge of the Armenian origin of the Russian players. (...) The officers of the State Border Service returned the Armenian football players who held Russian passports on the same plane in which they had arrived

This Center joins prominent players in the Russian HVACR market and such organizations as the Russian Energy Agency, Ministry of Energy and the Nonprofit Partnership “Green Standards Environmental Certification Center”. (...) Eight of these projects incorporated both mitigation and adaptation objectives with additional funding from the SCCF, and 54 combined climate change mitigation objectives with the objectives of other focal areas. 32. (...) During this reporting period, the GEF has not received formal CTCN project proposals with the primary objective to support the operationalization of the CTCN.

In particular, the above-mentioned report showed that all the main players in the collapse of banks were men and that women were in a minority in politics, business, and companies’ boards of directors, the media, bank owners, borrowers and the recipients of grants.15 It also stated that men, who were the main players in the collapse, had acted in the context of a masculine culture which was highly competitive and encouraged risk-taking. 33. (...) Its role was to evaluate the ongoing impact of the economic situation from a gender perspective with the objective of ensuring that actions taken to strengthen the economy would reflect gender equality principles. 34. (...) Among its 15 concrete objectives, it lists the goal of narrowing the gender gap to 0.9 by 2020, in accordance with the indices of the Global Gender Gap Index. 37.

VIEWS AND INFORMATION ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NAIROBI WORK PROGRAMME ON IMPACTS, VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN FULFILLING ITS OBJECTIVE, EXPECTED OUTCOME, SCOPE OF WORK AND MODALITIES :SUBMISSIONS FROM PARTIES AND RELEVANT ORGANIZATIONS

To provide information on a regular basis on the composition and objective of the co- financing for projects funded by the Global Environment Facility; iii. (...) Project concepts from group allocation countries will also be processed until the limit of available funds, with priority given to concepts that belong to programmatic approaches approved by Council. 27 Composition and objective of co-financing 29. Mitigation projects that have been financed with GEF funds during the reporting period, from September 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009, will leverage approximately $2.1 billion in co-financing. (...) Co- financing can include finance for baseline activities which are essential for achieving the GEF objectives. 30. The objective of co-financing for GEF projects is to expand the resources available for project implementation, since the limited financial resources of GEF have to serve the growing demand for assistance; maximize and sustain their impacts by ensuring their success and local acceptance; and demonstrate the commitment of the beneficiaries, counterparts and agencies.

High-level representatives from public authorities, international financing institutions, verifiers, project developers and other key players in the carbon market have an opportunity to discuss topics like outcomes of the latest international climate negotiations, its implications on flexible mechanisms, as well as current and possible future developments on the international carbon market. (...) These frameworks were put together on the basis of detailed mapping of natural conditions. The objective was to deliver a proposal for appropriate forest management system according to functions served by each part of the forest within the mapped area. (...) Innovation partnerships with German companies provide an opportunity for a direct exchange of experience Ongoing, Croatia Germany Energy efficiency in urban districts The project objective is the model application and dissemination of resource- friendly measures in planning, constructing and operating a building complex, along with the use of modern technologies in Ukraine’s construction sector.

World institutions are likely to serve best those actors who have some systemic influence. Smaller players do, in fact, face a very unfavorable power relation vis-à-vis large institutions. This creates a strong argument for a division of labor whereby regional institutions can and should play a stronger role in relation to small and medium-sized countries. Indeed, the best defense for smaller players is competition in the provision of services to them.

They also enhance accountability: by assigning role players and defining responsibilities, they allow civil society organizations and independent bodies – such as national human rights institutions or courts – to better hold State agencies to account. (...) The Strategic Thinking Process launched in January 2012 by the Director-General to review the Strategic Framework 2010-2019 and to prepare the next Medium Term Plan (MTP) for 2014-17 provides an important opportunity to further integrate the right to food across the work of FAO.9 Among the important innovations being considered for the Medium Term Plan 2014-17 are specific action plans to guide the achievement of each Strategic Objective and the identification of cross-cutting areas of work to be incorporated and mainstreamed across the Strategic Objectives.10 The Special Rapporteur recommends that the right to food be included as a cross-cutting area of work and the key components of its normative and analytical framework reflected in the action plans for the implementation of strategic objectives. (...) FAO has demonstrated that it can play a key role in encouraging the adoption of legal, institutional and policy frameworks informed by the right to food.

A dedicated team has been established by the World Bank in its headquarters in Washington DC, and works closely with the Moroccan Presidency to lead and support the operationalization of CAPE;  Create the necessary conditions for effective peer-exchange and mutual supports among Minsters of Finance on climate action and alignment of budgetary and fiscal policies to climate resilience requirements and objectives of climate action, based on (i) best practices and international standards, (ii) lessons from leading national experiences, success stories and knowledge sharing among peers, and (iii) taking into account differences of budgetary frameworks, legislative and regulatory approaches, and macro-economic environment structural characteristics as per specific regional and national contexts (...) Such framework is expected to include standard tool-boxes for systemic integration of climate action requirements and objectives in (i) budgetary and fiscal policy-making processes (including climate friendly policies, carbon pricing tools and mechanisms, regulatory, prudential and cost incentives), (ii) public investments and expenditure planning and evaluation processes, and (iii) more generally public financing management systems and effective impact measurement tools (...) Subsequently the Moroccan presidency will facilitate collaboration and collective action around the following 3 action domains: (A) Build on the CMA1 decision that the Adaptation Fund should serve the Paris Agreement, and propose appropriate arrangements as soon as possible; (B) Stimulate the development of a comprehensive set of Adaptation Metrics to better plan, design, implement and report on adaptation, by building on existing initiatives and bringing together policy makers, business leaders, investors and industry representatives, academia and civil society actors. The objective of such tools is to provide investors and donors with adequate and coherent analytical tools to inform decision making and allow for comparability through the entire process of project design, planning and implementation, as well as measurement of effective impact of climate adaptation action.