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.

15. The Board has assessed the extent to which the UNFPA financial statements for the biennium ended 31 December 1997 conformed to the United Nations System Accounting Standards.

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.

An interdepartmental assessment mission led by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations visited Sierra Leone from 20 to 28 March to evaluate the benchmarks and collect the information needed to develop those recommendations.

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

The assessment was conducted from 4 to 14 April 2005 using the joint methodology for evaluating compliance developed by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, IMF and the World Bank.

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

Consolidated appeals increasingly serve as a denominator of assessed humanitarian needs given increased NGO participation.

National Capacity Needs Self assessment for Global Environmental Management approved by the GEF CEO on 5 May 2004.

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.

Both the New York and Geneva based Audit Divisions plan to undertake internal quality assessments in preparation for external reviews by professional audit institutes, which will validate the results of the assessment to determine the level of compliance with recommended standards and practices.

(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.