Supply and demand Notwithstanding the focus on capacity building, technical cooperation in UNCTAD has definable supply and demand functions.

These variables and supply-and-demand functions are part of the partial equilibrium model that the study used for establishing national reference levels.

In particular it focuses on issues such as capacity building, partnership with other organisations, evolution in overall development aid strategy, supply and demand functions, and allocation of resources.

The principle of functional equivalence demanded that the results under the two systems were identical.

Over the past five years, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Department of Public Information have significantly increased their cooperation at the working level and, increasingly, in order to cope with multiple demands, function as one team with regard to the dissemination of public information.

As we demand transparency, the Council's functions remain shrouded and opaque.

The increase in resources is owing to the redeployment of one P-4 post from subprogramme 1, in order to strengthen the mandated demand-reduction functions of subprogramme 3.

An additional provision of $ 1.2 million has been included under the regular budget to cover the cost of four additional posts (one D-1, one P-5, one P-3 and one GS) required to cope with increased needs and challenges, and to rectify a situation where two demanding functions have been amalgamated in one post or assigned to one incumbent on cost containment considerations.

Finally, UNDP is projecting an increase in the resources it will administer on behalf of the United Nations system, reflecting the expansion in demand for this function.

For that reason, the demands on and functions of current peacekeeping operations are greater, in accordance with their increasing complexity, which obliges them to be multidimensional in nature.