C. Millennium Development Goal 8 criteria for evaluation

Criteria for the evaluation of Millennium Development Goal 8

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 addition, a self evaluation had been undertaken by the Evaluation Office, using as benchmarks the new Norms and Standards for Evaluation in the United Nations System.

Item 5. Criteria for the evaluation of Millennium Development Goal 8

C. Millennium Development Goal 8 criteria for evaluation 40 43 10

The morning meeting on Wednesday addressed criteria for evaluation of goal 8.

Develop criteria for evaluating alternatives.

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

That would be followed by a discussion on criteria for the evaluation of goal 8, and how these could be enhanced from the perspective of the right to development.

(a) Lack of objective criteria about the need for medical personnel

(e) To undertake an evaluation of rations performance standards and indicators to determine their compliance with industry standards (ibid., para. 44)

139. It was suggested that paragraph 24 should elaborate on the distinction between qualification and evaluation criteria.

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

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

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

(c) The goods , construction or services to be procured are standardized standard products commodities , such that the price and other quantifiable criteria expressed in figures or percentages thereof is are the only criterion criteria to be used in determining the successful bid such that all criteria that are to be submitted and evaluated in the auction can be evaluated automatically .

The credit rating agencies would probably evaluate the United Nations for credit rating purposes based on various criteria, including

(c) Assessing the implementation of the new Job Evaluation Master Standard for the Professional and higher categories

(d) Promote common evaluation and monitoring tools, indicators and benchmarks based on commonly agreed standards

Evaluate those positions according to the United Nations classification standard.

Consideration and evaluation of benchmarks and indicators used to measure progress

(a) Introduce a standard evaluation form to document performance assessments for all consultants, covering the extent to which they met deadlines, budgets and objectives

130. Notes the endorsement in 2005 of the norms and standards for evaluation by the United Nations system through the United Nations Evaluation Group, constituting a contribution to strengthening evaluation as a United Nations system function

Evaluation and award criteria

29. The UNFPA thematic evaluation of execution modalities has provided a conceptual framework for the evaluation and performance standards for executing agencies.

7.1. The objective of evaluation is

Delegations endorsed the preparation of a UNDP evaluation policy in line with UNEG norms and standards, a follow up and tracking system for evaluation recommendations, and a management response.

The United Nations system wide agreed Norms and Standards for Evaluation were required under General Assembly A RES 59 250 of December 2004 and were adopted unanimously by the United Nations Evaluation Group in April 2005.

There are no common criteria for the resident coordinator system to adopt for evaluations of their projects and programmes.

As part of the project evaluation process, UNDCP has started asking evaluators to complete a questionnaire assessing projects on a number of standard dimensions.

To serve any useful purpose, evaluations should be done on a regular basis and follow common norms and standards.

(a) Authority for the promulgation of the new system of job evaluation comprising (i) the Master Standard, (ii) grade level descriptors and (iii) a new job description format should be delegated to its Chairman to allow for internal consultations within the organizations with a view to its promulgation as at 1 January 2004

35. The Evaluation Bulletin Evaluation Bulletin, No. 3 (Spring 1993). of the Central Evaluation Unit in the Department of Administration and Management of the United Nations suggests eight distinct but interrelated analytical tests by which project results may be compared with planned objectives through appropriate indicators.

Evaluation cCriteria

The peer review, while observing that Secretariat documents are not generally the result of independent research and should not be evaluated by academic criteria, proposed a list of criteria that could serve as standards of evaluation (a) Is the information accurate and up to date?

In evaluating the suitability of the models and the existing mechanisms, the following criteria may be considered

74. Particular importance was attached by the team developing job evaluation methods to appropriate weighting of the points attributed to different criteria.

Assessment and evaluation of existing international standards and instruments to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance with a view to preparing complementary standards

(b) Ad hoc meetings concerned with specific subjects requiring joint deliberation

In addition, detailed guidelines should be issued early to all departments, covering current evaluation practices, methodologies and quality standards.

It has adapted its project cycle accordingly while maintaining rigorous standards of appraisal.

77. These evaluations should be made according to consistent procedures that meet minimum levels of acceptability.

A team of nine procurement officers evaluates the applications, and applicants who do not meet the standard in the initial evaluation are submitted to the Supplier Review Committee for further views.

Licklider intuitively realized this, contemplating humans setting the goals, formulating the hypotheses, determining the criteria, and performing the evaluation.