One example of this is a forthcoming guide developed by UNESCO on the essential characteristics of efficient and effective HIV and AIDS responses.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

The guide is designed to explain, in a user-friendly and accessible format, what these essential characteristics are, what they mean in practice, and how they can be applied, integrated and institutionalized into HIV and AIDS planning and programme processes.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

This paper defines the essential quantitative and qualitative characteristics of a U.S. force structure required to meet the two-MRC standard for the near term and midterm.

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The six characteristics above are simple, but are essential to what we are and can become.

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