Libya and Iran have both opted to expose their nuclear programmes to outside monitoring, and so helped to reduce the potential for a regional arms race.

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The Welsh and Cardiff city governments try to address these problems with more urban regeneration - and sometimes with increased monitoring of immigrant areas and programmes to foster tolerance among Welsh people.

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Not one real is allocated for deforestation but there are six programmes for environmental conservation, zoning, monitoring land use and recuperation of degraded areas, intensifying their use where appropriate.

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Design, in close liaison with the Divisions in the Sector and Field Offices as may be necessary, regular programme activities and extra budgetary projects for building human and institutional capacities on policy formulation and monitoring through the use of science and technology indicators and programmes to foster inter-regional cooperation in close cooperation with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

UNESCO: Vacancy : Senior Programme Specialist (24/5/2011) (SC 433 - (P5))

Coordinate with national and international geoscience authorities and policy makers on research, technology transfer and public awareness raising programmes on the use of remote sensing for environmental monitoring, geohazard mitigation, georesource modeling, transboundary geoscience map integration, geoengineering, climate change and environmental geology.

UNESCO: Vacancy : Secretary of The International Geoscience Programme, Chief of Global Earth Observation Section (24/5/2011) (SC 330 - (P5))

As well as focusing on programmes that have made a difference around the world, the 2012 EFA Global Monitoring Report points to the urgent need to increase funding.

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