Examples of using Agencies note in English and their translations into Arabic
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However, agencies noted some concerns with several of the benchmarks.
While in both cases the benchmark recognizes" efficiency,competence and integrity" as the paramount employment consideration, agencies note that tension between the two benchmarks exists, and that it cannot always be resolved equitably.
Agencies noted that most of the recommendations were directed at legislative/governing bodies.
On the suggestion of a common/joint offshoring policy, as called for in paragraph27 of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit, agencies note that this would require enhanced analysis, given the diverse needs of different United Nations system organizations.
Several agencies noted that many of the recommendations were already in line with established practice.
Agencies note that providing information to these bodies could lead to the public dissemination of sensitive information.
Agencies noted that periodic training on ethics was considered best practice and was a key function of every ethics office.
Nevertheless, agencies note that ERP implementation was not an end in itself but a tool intended to help organizations to fulfil their mandates.
Tourism agencies note that when an attack occurs against tourists, Egypt loses tourism dollars to other exotic countries such as China, India or Morocco.
Agencies noted that the subject of recommendation 12, regarding the terms of external audit bodies, was wholly under the purview of legislative/governing bodies.
Agencies note that more clarity is needed with respect to details and the nature of information to be provided to legislative bodies in the context of recommendation 3.
Furthermore, agencies note that this recommendation is in line with the recommendations made at biennial meetings of national recruitment services and United Nations organizations.
Agencies note that any such analysis itself can prove costly, and organizations should embark on such an endeavour only if they consider offshoring a likely eventuality.
Agencies note that hosting an enterprise resource planning system externally provides flexibility, as well as benefits associated with disaster recovery and business continuity.
Agencies note that recommendation 5 is intended to correct deficiencies in the lump-sum approach for home leave travel, and its implementation may streamline existing arrangements.
Further, agencies note that the use of implementing partners is one of several modalities used to implement technical cooperation programmes, and therefore question the value of separate reporting.
Agencies note that an initiative within the ICT Network of the United Nations system seeks to standardize the methodology used by agencies to calculate ICT costs.
In addition, agencies note that, while many International Computing Centre services are cost-competitive with commercial providers, this, too, is not always the case, as is also stated in paragraph 55.
Agencies note that they strive to select suitable candidates for the positions indicated and believe that heads of agencies in affected countries fully meet the requirements stated within the recommendation.
Agencies note that, although in paragraph 55 it is stated that, as an internal United Nations entity, the International Computing Centre is exempted from participating in the bidding process, this is not always the case.
Furthermore, agencies note that the Joint Inspection Unit could have improved the report by assessing the effectiveness of the various mechanisms that support mine action activities, as referred to in paragraph 143.
Agencies note that within the United Nations system, the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) has developed a framework for assessing capacities for national planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting, along with indicators.
For example, agencies note that comments in paragraphs 14 to 24 should take account of the fact that occupational safety and health is already a component of the medical support strategy of the Department of Field Support of the United Nations Secretariat.
Agencies note that, since each of the co-sponsoring organizations has its own mandate and governance structure, any changes to the authority, role and responsibility of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board would still require endorsement beyond that of the Economic and Social Council.
Agencies note many instances where funding is adequate, and provided from the regular and core budgets, and they point out that the recommendation could have more clearly stated that it applied only to those organizations where resources are not provided through the regular budget.
Agencies note that no such entity exists; they suggest that the report may have been referring to the Management Committee of the International Computing Centre(ICC), which is not an inter-agency working group but the governance body of ICC and is not under the authority of the inter-agency mechanisms.
Furthermore, agencies note that the Unit does not acknowledge that Member States decided on the classification of category I and category II allegations and on the authority of the Office of Internal Oversight Services(OIOS) to refer lower-level category I allegations to programme managers(see ST/SGB/273).
Agencies note that the development of definitional frameworks and guidelines could bring much-needed clarity to the concept and boundaries of knowledge management, and emphasize the importance of continuous sharing of views and experience among United Nations agencies as the definitions and guidelines are put into practice.
Agencies note in particular that the UNEP Governing Council, at its twenty-fifth regular session, established a consultative process to present a set of options for improving international environmental governance to the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum at its eleventh special session, with a view to providing inputs to the United Nations General Assembly(see Governing Council decision 25/4).
Furthermore, agencies note the extreme difficulty of achieving such a goal, especially by 2013, given the differences in staff regulations, legal frameworks, investigation guidelines and financial rules and regulations in each organization, in addition to the fact that investigations would require a thorough understanding and knowledge of each organization ' s operations, some of which are highly specialized.
