(g) Unrelated price benchmarking.

This facilitates benchmarking between country operations, provides management with assurance that activities are well or adequately administered and assists in identifying operations that require prompt corrective action.

Considering use of comparative statistical data and benchmarking with other organizations.

This facilitates benchmarking between country operations, provides management with assurance that activities are well or adequately administered, and assists in identifying operations in which prompt corrective action is required.

(iii) Requested to further develop its Internet connectivity benchmarking tool, using extrabudgetary sources

The latter includes competitiveness benchmarking of investments in specific subsectors and enterprise profiles.

It took one year to obtain data via a benchmarking study from the agencies.

Findings with a financial impact may be identified while analysing processes, reviewing the utilization of assets, assessing procurement activities, reviewing the compliance of benefits paid with rules and procedures or benchmarking costs against the cost of other entities carrying out similar activities.

First, companies should modernize core competencies by benchmarking beyond the narrow confines of their industry.

The results will be followed up in the form of a participation index and benchmarking.

For benchmarking purposes, we have set a working target of at least 25 female membership.

This will be done by benchmarking practices and achievements against relevant best practices in the internal auditing profession.

The COP should endorse the benchmarking framework for results based management (see paragraph 35 and footnote 12 above).

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Procurement benchmarking is tentatively on the agenda of the 30th meeting of the IAPWG in Moscow in May 2005.

In both these countries, UNCTAD is providing assistance in benchmarking their business immigration practices with those of other countries.

Lastly, a lack of local benchmarking had been observed at the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).

What India was doing, though, was benchmarking itself against the best in the world, and it became a huge brand.

(g) Fully implement reporting through the Revenue and Expenditure Report and the use of benchmarking mechanisms for dissemination of best practices.

37. UNDP should carry out work measurement exercises of country offices activities to help strengthen its budgetary formulation process at the local level, provide benchmarking data for country offices and compile standard performance indicators. UNDP should develop a means of reporting achievement of the activities provided for in the budget (paras. 12 (a) and (b)).

The second component will enhance the capabilities of developing countries and economies in transition in assessing and benchmarking their competitive industrial performance.

Those in turn could be very useful for trading options, benchmarking proposals or giving realistic estimates of the resources needed by a project.

Importantly, this report adds depth to its benchmarking analysis by describing examples of innovative grass roots programmes in the field of ICTs in Africa.

UNDP aims to further improve its capacity, efficiency and accountability by benchmarking itself with international standards towards a more networked and knowledge driven organization.

The use of standardized indicators could also stimulate enterprises to improve their environmental and financial performance by comparing them with competitors, that is benchmarking.

The policy framework for investment could be used as a self evaluation and benchmarking tool and as a coherent framework for investment related policy reviews.

Buyang Group and Qunsheng Group are also enterprises in the city that are carrying out the Made in Zhejiang team s benchmarking and and standard achievement work.

Integrated programmes should include a policy advice component and, where relevant, a statistical component for proper benchmarking and evaluation so as to improve competitiveness and productivity.

(c) Consider sharing a set of similar core indicators across the United Nations common system in order to facilitate benchmarking in terms of deliverables and costs

For the purposes of the present review, the auditors had to survey each of the individual offices concerned in order to obtain this information for benchmarking purposes.

Since our City formulated the Made in Zhejiang standards for the burglar proof doors industry last year, Xinyue, Simto and other enterprises have also actively applied to undergo benchmarking.

Local coping strategies Integrating work on NAPAs into second national communications Benchmarking of adaptation Adaptation technologies Methodological work Capacity building needs during NAPA implementation Funding constraints faced by LDCs.

UNDP recognizes that more needs to be accomplished and, as part of this continuous improvement process, is benchmarking itself to international standards in areas of efficiency, performance and accountability.

The Board previously recommended that the Administration promote throughout the United Nations system inter agency local benchmarking and, where appropriate, joint sourcing for the procurement of basic services and goods.

The COP should approve the establishment of a Task Force comprising the main UNCCD constituencies that would use the results based management benchmarking framework to draw up a long term strategic framework for UNCCD that would establish the exact functions and activities of the UNCCD Secretariat and enable the Executive Secretary to draw up a medium term plan.

According to Atlanta based benchmarking services provider The Hackett Group, best practice companies in the Fortune 1000 spend 85 per employee per year on payroll others spend as much as 715.

Outputs Publication in 2007 of the Industrial Development Scoreboard, which will constitute the basis for the assessment and benchmarking of national competitive industrial performance and related drivers at global and regional levels.

Collaboration with regional entities Developing standards and benchmarking for adaptation projects, which could support the LDCs during the implementation phase in identifying best practices Adaptation workshop(s) in the context of NAPAs.

Another delegate requested UNCTAD to undertake analytical work on the methodologies for assessing and benchmarking competitiveness in order to develop a framework to better assess competitiveness of developing countries and their enterprises.

In centralized support services, opportunities for process redesign can be vigorously pursued. Given the generic nature of some of the services, the practice of benchmarking against private sector practices has been beneficial.

UNHCR as well as United Nations wide senior management therefore did not have an appropriate benchmarking tool to help identify weaknesses that could be remedied by resorting to lessons learned in other entities.

Whereas socioeconomic development monitoring had focused on human outcomes social and economic conditions human rights monitoring also required considering several actors, process as well as outcome indicators, and benchmarking to measure progressive realization.

In this regard, an evaluation scheme for tourism websites, which might be of use for benchmarking by developing countries, was launched at the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization in November 2005.

The Tunis agenda also stresses the importance of the production of appropriate indicators and benchmarking instruments to monitor and assess progress in the use of ICT to achieve internationally agreed development goals and objectives.

MSRP objectives had been established early on, but the related quantifiable goals were not fully developed, making the benchmarking of results difficult as the legacy systems' work processes had not been sufficiently measured and documented.