Analysis, Assessment and Preparedness

Recognizing the importance of WFP's enhanced effectiveness in emergency preparedness, a new division Analysis, Assessment and Preparedness (ODA) was formed, in which the Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit, the Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping (VAM) Unit and the Needs Assessment Unit coordinate their activities.

Therefore, criteria based assessment shows potential as one alternative, as long as the views of citizens and community groups are incorporated throughout the assessment process, including during the determination of the assessment criteria.

Evaluation cCriteria

On the basis of a comprehensive assessment, Norway stands ready to support the draft resolution before us.

The Board assessed 10 of the 20 frameworks prepared for 1996 1997 against those criteria.

Assessing government alternative strategies

22 8 Further improvement of environmental emergency prevention, preparedness, assessment, response and mitigation

Measurement and criteria for evaluation

Revival of the talks requires thorough preparation and an honest assessment that the prospect of success is at least credible.

While DPKO has put in place a mechanism to evaluate and assess armed military contingents prior to their deployment, no such mechanism has yet been developed to assess pre deployment preparedness of military observers.

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

Those teams provide transition readiness assessments, identifying areas of progress and shortcomings, ultimately preparing individual units to assume independent control of their area of responsibility.

Preparation of documents emerged as a priority area for improvement also in the secretariat's self assessment.

An FAO publication on methodologies for rapid assessment will be ready in early 1997.

Approval of the assessment would be subject to funding being made available for the project.

To achieve this purpose of assessing governance and public administration capacity, there is an alternative approach, namely, the use of criteria based assessment.

CACG Guidelines stress that evaluations should be based on objective criteria.

Criteria to assess the cost effectiveness of the CRIC process are put forward as follows

This workshop was a first early step in the preparations for producing the Third Assessment Report by the year 2000.

69. At the time when women s police stations have been in existence for just over a decade, there has been, in some States, an attempt to evaluate and review their functioning.

These norms and standards are now being applied in self assessments of each agency's evaluation activities.

Test criteria and method of assessing the results

An amount with which the precision of a measurement can be estimated.

2 (f) The necessary criteria for evaluation should include

Strengthening the standardization and conformity assessment infrastructure.

It is essential that future sessions of the Preparatory Committee make an accurate and objective assessment of compliance with NPT obligations.

In response, the secretariat immediately prepared for the fielding of advisory missions to assess the nature and extent of assistance required.

The preferred option is generally to define the operating methods of the monitoring assessment equipment starting from a single scheme, and in many cases to build the assessment system using non exhaustive criteria.

In 2005, the group agreed on and published a set of norms and standards for evaluation work by United Nations agencies.

Rating the Raters

They are also working to construct a reference base which they can use to monitor desertification processes, to gauge the impact of activities and to assess future trends.27.

The Inspectors also support the suggestion that the evaluation of progress in implementation of the Convention at the national, subregional and regional levels requires a system of clear benchmarks and indicators, as well as periodic evaluations (external, internal and self evaluation).

18. In that context, the role of international organizations should be to prepare technology needs assessments and to identify barriers to the transfer of technology.

Criteria for assessing global partnership for realization of the right to development

Management with benchmarks for results and their assessment.

Iceland has participated actively in the preparatory work of GMA.

90. Decides to launch the start up phase, the assessment of assessments , to be completed within two years, as a preparatory stage towards the establishment of the regular process

B I for monitoring and assessment will be integrated for desertification evaluation processes (DEPs).

The use of criteria as tools for capacity assessment permits consideration of this concept in a practical way.

The evaluation showed that the country was better prepared than on previous occasions but still not well enough prepared.

Lead reviewers also discussed technical issues that have arisen in the review of GHG inventories, including review of a GHG inventory that is a compiled from different national inventories, and the assessment of the choice of methods used in the preparation of an inventory estimate.

We endorse the launch of the start up phase of the assessment of assessments as a preparatory stage towards the establishment of the regular process.

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is currently preparing an assessment of existing codes in an effort to work towards the development of an OPCW Code of Conduct.

In preparation for the workshops, the Commission developed a training manual on the appraisal modality, in which a comprehensive matrix of indicators was included.