The TEAM will involve assessing the level of SME participation in exports and the areas in which SMEs are prevalent.

(4) assets assessment and disposal involved in restructuring the enterprise and

The results of evaluation or assessment may be promulgated to the general public in a proper way.

In the discussions that followed, one of discussants suggested that, in promoting competitiveness of SMEs, there was a need to conduct evaluations of programmes that supported enterprise development to better assess their impact.

Special attention will be paid to assessing the synergy between cluster development, business linkages and access by SMEs in developing countries to global value chains.

Sometimes, it was difficult for a developing country to find or assess appropriate partners for the creation of a joint venture.

(4) assessing enterprise finance, monitoring the operation status of enterprise finance

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.

This would, in its turn, allow banks and other lenders to better assess enterprise risks using modern ICT based techniques for credit risk assessment and credit scoring.

Individual performance appraisal

(3) determining the hiring or firing of intermediary organs such as accounting firms or property assessment institutions and so on

E. Enhancing the Performance Appraisal System

(g) Undertaking human rights impact assessments business had the responsibility to avoid to the extent possible risks to human rights in future operations by first undertaking an impact assessment.

page 4 was an assessment of enterprise level partnerships and collaboration in three countries Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

E. Assessing the implementation of the new Job Evaluation Master Standard for the Professional and higher categories

Participants highlighted the difficulties in assessing when mere presence would amount to complicity in abuse as well as the difficulty in withdrawing, particularly given the fixed nature of infrastructure in the industry.

Monitoring, evaluation and the systematic assessment of performance

The assessment of the reputation of certain occupations

Evaluated Section staff's performance.

(d) To develop materials and methodologies for undertaking human rights impact assessments of the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises

In Croatia a needs assessment study had been undertaken to inform development of SME innovation policies.

The assessment includes suggestions for formulating a national strategy and policies for enterprise partnerships in Africa.

Evaluation of operational activities for development

In particular, more in depth analysis of this indicator could help assess the relative importance of B2B extranets for enterprise productivity.

60. In assessing the projects submitted, the Office of the Under Secretary for Vocational Training enjoyed the services of a team of assessors specially trained by the Vocational Training Centre (CEDFOPE) to evaluate the course contents.

That would help in assessing performance.

Another factor is their involvement in subsistence activities, for which commercial markets have not yet developed, and it is therefore difficult for banks to assess the commercial risks involved.

The TEAM will make it possible to assess the current situation of business information in terms of its availability, its distribution (geographical and timing), the costs associated with obtaining it, the appropriateness of the information and the ability of enterprises to use the information.

Responding to those needs, UNIDO capacity building programmes for women entrepreneurs combined the enhancement of managerial and technical skills on the basis of needs assessment carried out using participatory methods.

Rating the Raters

454. Statistics on the activities of small enterprises and microenterprises tend to underestimate the role of women as entrepreneurs, mainly because it tends to be assumed that family businesses are run by the head of the household.

The latter are assessed through use of key performance indicators.

The initiative Technology Transfer Assessing Needs Promoting Action to strengthen the institutional capacity of participating countries in assessing technological capabilities at national, sectoral and enterprise levels, and to assist counterparts in the development of capability based technology upgrading programmes at national and sectoral levels, facilitating enterprise level technology needs matchmaking for techno economic cooperation.

Thus, firms have utilized information technology in strategic planning and in the implementation of goals and objectives, in assessing the strength and innovativeness of markets and products, and in assisting enterprises to adapt swiftly to changes in the market place and in the overall international environment.

The expertise in development finance includes programme design, appraisal and evaluation.

With this reform under way, the State plans to evaluate the land and determine which lands can be used for industry, agro industry and the like.

An enterprise shall enhance the management of the receivables, evaluate the credit risks of the clients, track the clients' performance of contract, determine and perform the responsibility of receivables collection and cut down the loss from doubtful accounts.

An assessment mission undertaken in Jordan in November 2004 showed that the EMPRETEC Programme can provide a competitive edge to SMEs in the global market.

(iii) Evaluations coordination and management of the evaluation of programmes and projects, including the preparation of the annual evaluation report, subprogramme evaluations and project evaluations.

Disclosure should be made of how the board has evaluated its performance and how the results of the appraisal are being used.

Currently, OECD member States are developing an assessment framework for evaluating the effectiveness of their ethics programmes.

Features of the Assessment of Assessments

Aims of the Assessment of Assessments

Assessments based on interviews with the private sector might provide more profound insights, but services enterprises in developing countries do not usually have the direct experience in foreign countries necessary to evaluate the impact of trade barriers and identify new market opportunities.

The UNCTAD Trade Efficiency Assessment Methodology applies mainly at the enterprise level and therefore will complement other trade assessment initiatives such as the WTOs TPRM (see box 1).