Socio economic impact assessments should include gender assessment clauses.

Environmental impact assessment techniques should also take into account the ecological footprints of cities.

An assessment should be made of the likely impact of the cooperation on the affected minorities.

Governments should undertake needs assessment and develop tools to evaluate impacts of policies and programmes (including support mechanisms)

C. Environmental impact assessment

Efforts towards policy impact and learning benefited from the lessons learned through the impact assessment as well as from the independent external programme evaluations.

Periodic reassessment of the understanding of such health effects would be desirable.

Assessment of the impact of suspension of recruitment

Assessing impact and measuring results

The use of environmental impact assessment, where appropriate

(g) Preparing environmental impact assessments.

3. Methods of impact assessment

Any changes in the modalities for provision should be subject to gender impact assessments.

C. Socio economic and humanitarian impact assessments

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

Article 16 Assessment of potential effects of activities

Various methods and approaches were used by Parties to assess impacts, vulnerability and adaptation (see table 1).

Furthermore, within the framework of the project cycle management, the issue of impact assessment and the adoption of a set of standards for impact assessment measures will be pursued.

During the initial review the expert review team shall assess whether

During the annual review the expert review team shall assess whether

Assessing mitigation and adaptation technologies methods for evaluating different technologies by determining, for example, performance, costs, and environmental impacts over time Parties may wish to refer to document FCC SBSTA 1996 4 for a definition of technology.

The planned assessment of the compacts at the end of 1998 and the review of the implementation plan and the strategic plan should allow UNDP to evaluate the objectives of the change process. D. United Nations Children s Fund

The impact evaluations suggest a need to establish basic targets at the country level and a simple system to monitor and evaluate impact.

This is meant to contribute to the formulation of a draft policy outlining an EIA which is friendly to indigenous communities and which takes into account their characteristics, and specific needs and rights.

. To take note with appreciation of the reports of the Scientific, Environmental Effects and Technology and Economic Assessment Panels and the Technical Options Committees

Assessing adaptation strategies and technologies

The second International Workshop recommended that the aims of the Assessment of Assessments should be to

An assessment mechanism should not duplicate other assessment endeavours of a similar or related nature

Human rights impact assessments could consider several levels of impact, including country risk assessment (examining legislation in place and the situation in the country) as well as human rights compliance assessment (examining company policies and practices).

(ii) Annex I to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991

(b) Social impact assessment for sustainable forest management

We support the case for more attention to be given to the evaluation of the impact of projects.

Most of the adaptation options were identified using the IPCC Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation to evaluate and determine the cost of specific adaptation strategies and measures.

The evaluation of technologies for adaptation to climate change includes an integrated assessment that combines numerous elements and has cross sectoral implications.

Figure 1. Compilation of evaluation responses provided by participants in the workshop on vulnerability and adaptation assessments

1. If the assessment referred to in article 7 indicates a risk of causing significant transboundary harm, the State of origin shall provide the State likely to be affected with timely notification of the risk and the assessment and shall transmit to it the available technical and all other relevant information on which the assessment is based.

v) providing local assessments and action programs to influence higher level (e.g. national) assessments and action programs

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.

Vulnerability assessment and adaptation measures

SIAPAC Social Impact Assessment and Policy Analysis Corporation (PTY) Ltd.

This requires appropriate tools for example, health impact assessments

7. Expected impacts of climate change and vulnerability assessment

As the number of post intervention reviews increases, a rudimentary framework for evaluating the impact of NGOs has appeared. Rather than simply looking at project inputs and outputs, the emphasis has turned towards measuring the overall impact of an operation.

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Others examined the possible climate change impacts on fisheries as a part of their vulnerability and adaptation assessments.