Because real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

Evaluation methods shall be adapted to the nature of the programme being evaluated.

21. Evaluation programme for 1998 The following evaluations, approved by the High Commissioner for 1998, are presently under way

I'm going to encourage constructive criticism.

The Evaluation Office will focus on enhancing evaluation standards and developing an organizational policy aligned with norms and standards recently approved by the United Nations Evaluation Group.

In recent years, social impact assessment is finding application in various social development contexts, such as gender assessment and poverty assessment.

Monitoring, evaluation and the systematic assessment of performance

Moreover, it is misleading to single out the most misguided comments by individual governors in the context of an active intellectual debate over policy. It is legitimate to criticize individual policymakers who exercised poor judgment, and they should have a mark on their record.

Following an internal review of its evaluation function, UNCDF seeks approval by the Executive Board of revisions to its evaluation policy. The current policy of mandatory, independent mid term and final evaluations for all programmes over 1 million would be adjusted as follows

Emphasis has been on thematic evaluations, which will continue to be conducted, while stakeholders also recognize the value of closer participation by the Unit in project evaluations.

(f) The importance of the common country assessment

Criticism and self criticism serve as a good medicine and the actual care given to our comrades and ourselves. Performing criticism and self criticism needs courage and party spirit, and we must not lose our weapon used for defending ourselves and treating diseases.

Strengthen local capacity for negotiation, monitoring and evaluation.

He joked about criticism he would get from the news media for making a comment some would consider unpresidential and for being so positive about the North Korean leader.

A targeted and detailed response with respect to the quality of performance and the results would be required from the evaluating officer.

I'm a critic.

Conduct of diagnostic and evaluation studies at the national level.

These include guidelines on organizing participatory self evaluations and on managing evaluations.

Subject matter Arrest, detention and conviction of journalist for criticizing the Angolan President

To strengthen the objectivity and credibility of the evaluative evidence provided to senior decision makers and programme managers, it is important to differentiate more clearly the monitoring and the evaluation functions, and with regard to evaluation, to emphasize the importance for both a strong self evaluation function and a strong independent, external evaluation function.

They wanted us to think critically.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of leniency programmes

(c) Assessment of agricultural biological diversity, based on existing information and global assessments in relevant areas

36. Welcomes the efforts of the Secretary General to strengthen the system of evaluation and monitoring that underlines the importance of assessing programme impacts

The two main features of the in depth evaluation exercise in UNCTAD were the independence of the external evaluation team, which had complete freedom on the substantive content of the evaluation and its recommendations, and the participatory approach, whereby in addition to a professional evaluator, two evaluators, one from a beneficiary and one from a donor country, participated in their personal capacity.

In his introductory remarks, the Director of the Evaluation Office stressed that the uniqueness and strength of evaluation in UNICEF was its decentralized system, and that mid term reviews (MTRs) and major evaluations reflected regional realities and diversities.

The State party recalls the Committee's jurisprudence according to which it is not for the Committee to question the assessment of the evidence by the domestic courts unless this assessment amounted to a denial of justice.

Given the difficulties of persuading armed groups to participate in negotiations, Myanmar rejected unwarranted criticism of the degree to which its National Convention was inclusive.

The possibility of evaluation missions should also be foreseen.

17. Follow up activities on this evaluation have been among the most comprehensive.

Education in judgement, particularly through the adoption of a critical approach and practice in argumentation.

A. Project evaluations 119 21 B. Thematic evaluations 120 121 21

Joint evaluations with partners and independent external consultants will be employed to ensure the objectivity of major evaluations.

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During the first semester of 2005, UNHCR published the following evaluation tools (i) How to manage evaluations Seven steps and (ii) Organizing participatory self evaluations at UNHCR Guidelines.

The Committee carries out assessments of port facilities, approves port facility protection plans and evaluates coastal and deep sea vessels.

Conduct project evaluation and thematic evaluation

The board of directors of the listed company shall give explicit opinions regarding the independence of the evaluation organ, the rationality of the evaluation assumptions, the correlation between the evaluation methods and the evaluation purpose, and the fairness of the evaluated price.

Preliminary findings on the gender mainstreaming evaluation

The free expression of opinion and constructive criticism as well as the freedom of assembly were provided for under the Constitution all those held in Syrian prisons had been convicted on the basis of conclusive evidence.

However, some delegations from East Asia cautioned against an uncritical assessment of their experiences, recognizing that mistakes had been made and that those needed to be included in the learning process.

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The Organization is under attack and from many directions.

You're saying she criticized you about Hesselbart.

The social evaluative judgments increase, the fear of those social evaluative judgments.