To further facilitate the process, the mediator may try establishing strict and
clear agendas for each meeting, so that everyone is on the same page.
Not exact matches
The Electronic Town Hall
Meeting will produce energy and ideas to help bring our
agenda for the future into
clearer focus.»
Teachers, parents and community members crowded into Long Island City HS
for the monthly Panel
for Educational Policy
meeting on May 18 and made it
clear they had a lot more on their minds than the Department of Education
agenda items.
The
meeting was permeated by a positive spirit
for the year to come and it was
clear that all the stakeholders present — academia, business, civil society, governments, intergovernmental organisations, youth — were ready to play their parts in preparing
for water's role in the Post-2015 Development
Agenda.
The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly
clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to
meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development
agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework
for the post-2015
agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.
Be prepared
for the
meeting and have a
clear agenda of what you want to discuss.
An
agenda is set
for each
meeting in advance, so that everyone is
clear on what issues will be discussed during any given
meeting.