An independent risk assessment was undertaken.

A third assessment will be carried out in 1995.

The Government aims to carry out a second evaluation in 2005, which will specifically examine progress made in resolving the obstacles noted in the first evaluation.

In addition to those studies, during 1996 1997 the secretariat of ESCAP prepared assessments of implementation at six month intervals for the Advisory Committee and annually by the Commission.

One rapid assessments in the Middle East, started in 1996, was completed in 1997.

The section on Social and environmental responsibilities of the UNFCCC income and budget performance document could be extended to include an environmental budget and could be used to report these GHG emissions After a certain period of operation, should this initiative be reviewed to assess its efficiency and effectiveness and if so, what should be an appropriate timeframe?

2000 Comprehensive quinquennial review and appraisal of the implementation of the Platform for Action

The first phase of the Global Marine Assessment the so called assessment of assessments will be important.

Following an evaluation, the Act was extended in December 2001. It will be evaluated again in 2005.

Also, in order to facilitate an in depth final review and appraisal, it would be appropriate if an independent evaluation of the implementation of the Agenda were carried out.

In Egypt, UNDCP laid the groundwork for an assessment study to be undertaken in 1996.

The Panel makes the evaluation and provides its report to the COP.

10. Crop monitoring activities are undertaken by FSAU four times a year for the establishment and assessment periods of each of the two cropping seasons.

The Ministry of Women Development carried out an audit of the plan in 2002 to gauge progress.

1.131 10 self evaluations surveys will have been carried out to assess system performance and outcomes of care.

An external evaluation of the Office (rapid assessment) was carried out in 2003. The Office will undertake a midterm review at the end of 2005 and an overall evaluation at the end of the current term.

It would be useful to conduct an honest re evaluation of the international policy response to assess its achievements and failures.

Resolution 20 6 Best practices, good policies and enabling legislation in support of sustainable urbanization and the attainment of internationally agreed development goals

(a) Carrying out a security assessment

A rapid assessment of the situation with regard to drug abuse control in Bangladesh, including the national institutional framework, began in July 1995.

In accordance with the request of COP 5, the policies, operational modalities and activities of the GM were the subject of an independent evaluation in 2003, which, together with an evaluation conducted concurrently by the World Bank, was considered at COP 6.

Assessments and analyses are done at the Entity level.

The National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) undertook a risk assessment of chrysotile in 1995 and published the final report in February 1999.

Approval of the assessment would be subject to funding being made available for the project.

Please indicate whether such an evaluation has been conducted and its results.

Needs assessments were conducted.

Since 1997, the United States Congress has required the Department of Defense to undertake a major defense review every four years. The department is currently developing the third such review and will release it later this year.

Two rapid assessments in Africa were started in 1997 and are still ongoing.

E. Sub global assessments

As a follow up to the last assessment of 13 June 2005, the present report provides an updated assessment of the progress made towards implementing the completion strategy of the Tribunal.

Ms. Ferrer Gómez asked whether an evaluation had been made of the National Gender Equity Plan and, if so, what were the findings.

The next two years, during which the Assessment of Assessments will take place, will be crucial to the establishment of the process.

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).

The planned workshop would provide an opportunity to continue the process of needs assessment and selection of ongoing projects for further consideration.

A blast assessment study was also commissioned to comply with Headquarters MOSS requirements.

The Arab Parliamentary Union was requested to organize a regional meeting every two years to take stock of progress.

A coherent methodology, which gives results that are comparable across the GIWA project, was developed and used to conduct regional assessments by 55 regional assessment teams.

This breakthrough followed a planned assessment in November 1997 from which the Sudanese People s Liberation Movement (SPLM) had withdrawn.

In 2004, 17 CFSAMs with external mission members were carried out 13 in Africa, three in Asia and one in Central America.

The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) requested the secretariat to prepare a note on streamlining these review processes, in order to avoid possible duplication of effort and ensure efficient use of available resources.

1. Adopts a multi year work programme for a focused and thematic approach, culminating in a quinquennial review and appraisal of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women the work programme, inter alia, will provide a framework to assess the progress achieved in the implementation of the Platform for Action and will be in line with the coordinated follow up to conferences

This survey and evaluation was to be carried out in three phases, namely (1) a global survey to identify the principal potential units, particularly networks, (2) a pilot in depth survey and evaluation of potential units in a particular region and subregion, and (3) replication of the in depth survey and evaluation of units in other regions and subregions.

An evaluation of this strategy is underway.

In most cases when Parties used expert judgement, they based their assessments on the information in their GHG inventories, economic growth patterns and national sustainable development plans.

Some countries expressed their concerns about possible duplication with assessments carried out within UNCTAD and by other organizations, and questions were raised about the sources of information that would be used for the assessment.