LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

Needs assessment and project formulation

The project will focus on the development of an integrative assessment methodology.

Third claim unit Long term monitoring and assessment project Iran seeks compensation in the amount of USD 50,000,000 for a long term monitoring and assessment project to ascertain damages to its agricultural resources.

Assessment missions were conducted in Ethiopia and Georgia, where project development is under way.

It includes four projects aimed at facilitating identification the Ante mortem Database Project, the Identification Project, the Forensic Monitoring of Exhumations in Bosnia and the Forensic Logistics Assessment Project.

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

The work should thus contribute to setting standards for such methodologies in such areas as pre project situation assessment and project monitoring and evaluation.

37. The United Nations Office for Project Services should develop a workload assessment and costing system.

If any negative impact is considered significant by the project participants or the host Party, project participants have undertaken a socio economic impact assessment and or an environmental impact assessment in accordance with the procedures required by the host Party.

Following a needs assessment on organized crime, project ideas were formulated for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Georgia.

That assessment has led to the design and development of a pilot project on computerized court administration.

Further steps are being taken to improve ITC approaches and tools for needs assessment and project design.

58. A training programme on project preparation and appraisal with an environmental impact assessment component held at Dhaka provided training of about 25 officials of various economic ministries of Bangladesh on the techniques of project preparation and appraisal, including assessment of environmental impact.

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.

In the area of penal reform, an assessment mission to Ethiopia was conducted and project development is ongoing.

Lack of funds have not yet permitted the fielding of needs assessment and project formulation missions. B. Training

During full project implementation, the methodological framework will be used to carry out land degradation assessment at different scales.

83. The UNU project on environmental impact assessment methodologies reached its final test and reporting phase during the year.

Besides the assessment of land based activities being prepared by GESAMP for 1999, UNEP is also undertaking a project funded by the Global Environment Facility concerning Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA).

(d) Inviting Governments, specialists and consultants to contribute expert assistance during needs assessment and advisory missions and for project implementation

This body is empowered to conduct an environment impact assessment (EIA) before any industrial or development project gets government approval.

Project proposals based on needs assessment for the computerization of criminal justice were prepared for Bulgaria, Russian Federation and Slovenia.

As a result, ICMP funded the Forensic Logistics Assessment Project, which provides materials and tools needed for exhumation and identification.

10. UNFPA should finalize and issue the draft guidelines on the selection and assessment of institutions for national project execution.

The secretariat continued to provide technical cooperation through project activities under (a) the Norway funded project on assessment of trade facilitation needs and priorities (Project INT 0T 2CS) (b) the Sweden funded project on the establishment of trade facilitation platforms (Project INT 0T 3BJ) and (c) the Islamic Development Bank funded project on international multimodal transport operations in the ECO region (Project RAS 0T 1BR).

The Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) project, carried out with support of partners such as GEF, ended on 30 June 2005.

A needs assessment on asset liability management was carried out in September 1996 for the Government of Morocco (technical assistance project).

(e) Application of radar data (ERS SAR) for soil moisture assessment (in cooperation with the European Space Agency ESA pilot project).

The FRA 2000 project includes a vigorous activity for country capacity building, allowing countries to participate actively in the assessment process.

On the other hand, the assessment mission to the National Parliament Project, which is scheduled to arrive in Timor Leste in November 2005, will develop the outline of the project starting in 2006.

Following the needs assessment mission report, HC CHR is usually requested to develop, in partnership with the Government, a project document focusing on the problems to be addressed and solved by the project.

In 2003, the Department of Defense established a zero tolerance policy and the DoD Inspector General created a Human Trafficking Assessment Project.

After the joint assessment of specific investigation files, the respective project teams present recommendations to the FEC board based on their findings.

Additionally the Balochistan Province has introduced an annexure on gender impact assessment to PC I, the main project document of the government.

The LADA project has integrated available worldwide knowledge and expertise and proposes a flexible and comprehensive framework of land degradation assessment methods.

The project promotes the development of data and database management capacity of partner institutions of UNEP in developing countries for environmental assessment.

The LADA project has also developed a local assessment tool, a set of simple and inexpensive assessment techniques which can be gradually learned by farmers and which are related to their needs for improving land conditions.

The objective of the project is to produce a textbook on environmental impact assessment methodologies that can be used for training developing country professionals involved in the preparation of the environmental impact assessment of development projects.

Regional workshops are organized periodically to keep the project partners updated on methodologies and tools and to encourage cross fertilization of assessment experiences.

The UNHCR Audit Service and the Inspector General's Office conducted a joint risk assessment of the 2005 tsunami relief project in Sri Lanka.

The project development phases (PDF A and PDF B) produced a considerable amount of information and a provisional land degradation assessment methodological framework.

. Following a drug abuse assessment survey conducted in Ethiopia, a comprehensive drug abuse prevention pilot project was launched at Nazareth, Ethiopia, in 1996.

In addition, OIOS and the UNHCR Inspector General's Office have conducted a joint risk assessment of the UNHCR tsunami relief project in Sri Lanka.