Vested with clear, strong authority, the secretariats are also charged with respecting and maintaining the essentially collaborative nature of the project and the implementing partnership.
But when it came time to adopt stringent budgetary changes at the United Nations, cementing fiscal and personnel authority with the Secretariat under Kofi Annan and taking some of it away from the General Assembly, the votes were not there.
For the secretariat, his authority was absolute because we respected the intellectual and moral effort and the judgment that went into his decisions, and the calmness and lack of pretension with which they were communicated.
The South African move reflects deepening suspicions among developing nations that the management reforms represent a ceding of power by the 191-member General Assembly, where they have a voice, to the 15-member Security Council and the Secretariat, where authority resides in the great powers and the major donor nations.
The police force of each state is under the authority of the state's Secretariat for Public Security.
The Council of Europe is composed of four principal bodies: the Committee of Ministers, the Parliamentary Assembly, the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe, and the Secretariat.
The conclusions of this research will provide local authorities (e.g. General Secretariat for Civil Protection, European Center for Forest Fires, Deputy Governor of Agricultural Economy, daily fire risk maps designers, hydraulic, irrigation and environmental engineers, city inhabitants, farmers etc).
The memorandum significantly curtailed contact between the WHO Secretariat and Taiwanese authorities.
The OIG on the other hand can investigate or audit the operations of any number of actors, including the Secretariat, and has the authority to access all books and records maintained by the Global Fund, and to seek any information from people involved in the organisation's projects.
Contemporary information on the production and use of DDT was obtained from a) formal questionnaires by the Stockholm Convention Secretariat, completed by national authorities; b) documents published by the Stockholm Convention; c) direct communications with national authorities; and d) information available from project proposals submitted to the Global Environment Facility (2009).
Suspected treason on the part of the chief counselor Hu Weiyong in 1380 caused the Hongwu emperor to abolish all executive posts in the Secretariat, thus fragmenting general administration authority among the six functionally differentiated, formerly subordinate Ministries of Personnel, Revenue, Rites, War, Justice, and Works.
