At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation.

This assessment could be qualitative and or quantitative in nature.

The secretariat continued to follow closely the activities of the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA) and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), including participation in meetings of the Technical Advisory Group of LADA, and the Executive Committee and Board of the MA.

Assessing impact and measuring results

Modalities for measurement, reporting and assessment

(b) Assess risk both quantitatively and qualitatively.

276. The national system for the assessment of the quality of education (SINEC) was established by the Federal Education Act as a key tool to enable the Ministry of Culture and Education to ensure quality and equality in the dissemination of knowledge throughout Argentina.

G. Desertification monitoring and assessment

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

4. Impact risk assessment and collision fluxes

G. Desertification monitoring and assessment

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment

(a) Develop and establish a more structured content improvement assessment framework, capitalizing on the work already done on quality measurement and quality assessment

Measurement and criteria for evaluation

The LADA project will produce a GLADA.

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment

G. Desertification monitoring and assessment 21 30 9

G. Desertification monitoring and assessment 56 57 14

G. Desertification monitoring and assessment 83 87 17

The LADA methodological framework comprises the LADA approach and a set of tools for the different scales of land degradation assessment, from the global to the subnational.

Programme to assess the quality of education

The LADA indicators are relatively easy to measure or obtain and are therefore of low cost.

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

G. Desertification monitoring and assessment 69 75 18

Parties embarking in more detailed national land degradation assessments may wish to adopt the LADA methodological framework and to share their findings in order to refine the global LADA assessment.

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment 10

The sScience and ttechnology programme has continued to follow closely the activities of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA), including the provision of comments and input to related documents and participation in meetings.

Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

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Emphasis will be placed on evaluating their relevance, quality, effectiveness and efficiency.

Using more recent material, readily available, the GLASOD study has been improved by LADA.

(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.

Measurement and assessment of hazards related to the problems concerned such as

The LADA approach

The request for an assessment of the extent of land degradation in drylands came from the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), out of which the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project was conceived.

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

For those, the absence of quantified means of assessing efficiency and productivity is a serious shortcoming that must urgently be overcome.

In addition, the UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment is involved in other global environmental assessment activities, such as the Global International Waters Assessment and the Global Marine Assessment, for which UNEP provides leadership and coordination, and the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, in which UNEP is a key partner.

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7. Expected impacts of climate change and vulnerability assessment

Review of the Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (ICADS), the WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard,20 and the International Chemical Safety Cards

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

Members of the cartel exchanged information about, inter alia, the amounts of fertilizer sold, selling prices and evaluations of market demand.

Based on this survey, the national LADA products will be defined during the full LADA project.