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

Strengthening the standardization and conformity assessment infrastructure.

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

Application of an approved methodology Statement of which approved methodology has been selected Description of how the approved methodology will be applied in the context of the project.

Evaluation cCriteria

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

(b) The Assessment of Assessments should be essentially science based.

Analysis, Assessment and Preparedness

UNICEF has completed its own evaluation, showing compliance with the norms and standards.

Well recognized applications of criteria based assessments exist in both the public and private sectors.

Criteria based assessments are widely used in both public and private organizations.

(cont.) Measures taken or planned within the framework of national action programmes,

Measurement and criteria for evaluation

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).

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

Various techniques have been discussed for evaluating the progress achieved, including quantitative and qualitative assessments, such as the establishment of benchmarks and baselines as a tool to improve the quality of offers.

As from 2004, independent companies will also be able to assess their own results against this benchmark.

Those were fundamental criteria for measuring the relevance and credibility of the United Nations as an instrument of development.

The former can provide relevant benchmarks to assess the realization of economic and social human rights.

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

(c) Integrated methodologies based on B I as well as operational monitoring and assessment systems and EWSs are components of a holistic approach to desertification evaluation.

Conformity Assessment Infrastructure

The collation of such data will, in the long term, set benchmarks for assessing overall improvement.

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.

UNICEF issued a new tool on self assessing progress on gender equality goals in country programmes as part of its 2004 core guidance.

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

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

Programme Component D.7 Strengthening Standards, Metrology, Testing and Conformity

Baseline data are necessary to evaluate both trends and the effectiveness of any particular intervention.

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

4. Supports the efforts of the Secretary General to continue consideration of suitable benchmarks and other indicators for assessing the investment performance of the Fund

For example, IMF is evaluating whether the MetaStore computer system could fully accommodate its DQAF dissemination standards metadata model.

The questionnaire invited remarks in relation to each specific criterion, an assessment according to the various activities7 of the international arrangement8 and suggestions for quantifiable benchmarks.

(i) The tabular information that reviews benchmarks and indicators utilized to measure progress and an assessment thereof.

SAEB Sistema de Avaliação do Ensino Básico the System for Basic Education Evaluation Research

Issue 4. Is there a need for a common reference base and yardstick, applicable in all situations, against which situations should be assessed?

Benchmarks relating to human activities, which can be assessed only by ground level observation, will be ascertained from field surveys.

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

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.

The Director, Division for Oversight Services, stated that UNFPA would work with its sister agencies on standardizing audit ratings.

Methodologies for calculating project baselines and actual emissions or removals in order to assess the incremental impact of the project and

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.

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