High Level Forum on SNA

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High Level Forum on SNA

• Governance, Mandate Functions
• November 18, 2008

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Outline of Presentation

• Issues from 2008 update
• Governance structure
• Scope of revision
• Structure and participation on Working Groups
• Moving Forward
• Research Agenda
• Concensus building process
• Update governance

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Governance Structure
Balance of Payments Committee
Country Comments
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Governance

• Mixture of roles and responsibilities of
  countries, international organizations and
  individuals
• Difficulty in reaching consensus on issues where
  importance varies across regions

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Mandate

• SNA update mandate was set by UNSC but
  interpretation of the mandate (no fundamental
  change) was sometimes difficult

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Working Groups

• Structure and participation of Working Groups
  were largely voluntary and dominated by SNA
  compilers
• Success was dependent on individual efforts
• Resource commitment was dependent on capacity
  constraints

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Moving Forward

• Establishment of research agenda and priorities
• Policy and academic views and involvement
• Commitment by NSOs
• Consensus Building process (Countries involvement
  early)
• Final Governance structure determined at time
  when countries approve need to change (UNSC)