The credit rating agencies would probably evaluate the United Nations for credit rating purposes based on various criteria, including

Any United Nations bond issue would be evaluated by market participants and potential investors by its credit rating, which is a formal evaluation of the creditworthiness of the bond issue by an independent credit rating agency.

Investors use credit ratings as a factor in pricing loans on bonds.

An inventory of UNDCP information systems has been carried out and an assessment made of them for year 2000 compliance.

In May 2004, the Working Group established five Task Forces to review the following issues (a) use of indicators (b) enhancing the role of the Integrated Monitoring and Documentation Information System (IMDIS) (c) better use of monitoring and evaluation products (d) self evaluation and (e) strengthening central monitoring and evaluation capacities.

In recent years, social impact assessment is finding application in various social development contexts, such as gender assessment and poverty assessment.

Use self evaluation as well as independent external evaluation to review implementation.

The evaluation exercise was overseen by the Evaluation Office with the close involvement of the headquarters of the Regional Bureau for Arab States and was conducted applying a mix of direct and meta evaluation techniques utilizing the findings of in depth outcome evaluations of individual programmes conducted in advance of the exercise.

A community technology centre could also provide a local capacity to evaluate and implement information technology.

(e) Monitoring and assessing progress through networking among partners utilizing modern information techniques.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

Evaluation of effective use of function.

(f) Assessment of drug abuse data collection.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

The evaluation of each position had been carried out by each job evaluator using the newly promulgated system for job evaluation approved by the Commission in January 2004.

The possibility of gradually adopting open standard platforms in place of proprietary software for the information and communication technology services of the Organization will be assessed, with a view to evaluating the benefits, in terms of improved security and reliability and reduced licence fees, as well as the costs of such an approach.

OIOS will specifically focus on the following (a) strengthening the rigour, coverage and utility of its evaluations (b) its role in supporting monitoring and evaluation in the Secretariat and (c) its role in promoting evaluation policy and practice in the United Nations system through active participation in the United Nations Evaluation Group.

Highly overrated.

Such information was used to identify crop health problems, monitor food supplies and assess famine risk.

When it asked people to rate it on terms of the quality of the working alliance, people rated the robot higher and they trusted the robot more.

A. Project evaluations 119 21 B. Thematic evaluations 120 121 21

142. In 1995, the application of rapid assessment procedures using qualitative anthropological techniques for the design, evaluation and improvement of programmes continued to spread.

Develop criteria for evaluating alternatives.

Definition of a valuation methodology for insurance purposes

(ii) Biennial report on strengthening the role of evaluation

50. A revised assessment form was introduced in January 1998.

The United Nations goal with respect to the credit rating would be to convince the credit rating agencies to treat the borrowing as quasi sovereign for credit rating purposes.

Conduct project evaluation and thematic evaluation

Welcomes the approach and methodology used in the evaluation and requests the UNDP Evaluation Office to give more attention to the relevance of the regional programmes in their approach and conduct independent evaluations of all regional programmes in future

The social evaluative judgments increase, the fear of those social evaluative judgments.

To strengthen the objectivity and credibility of the evaluative evidence provided to senior decision makers and programme managers, it is important to differentiate more clearly the monitoring and the evaluation functions, and with regard to evaluation, to emphasize the importance for both a strong self evaluation function and a strong independent, external evaluation function.

The old system of self evaluation at the subprogramme level had been largely superseded by a broader and more useful approach that included thematic and project evaluations and other types of assessments as well as greater intergovernmental participation in the evaluation process.

Following the interviews, independent evaluation of each position had been carried out by each job evaluator using the newly promulgated system for job evaluation approved by the Commission for implementation in January 2004.

Recommendation 7 Evaluate the impact of the UN Habitat programme managers

The new global Evaluation Committee adopted a plan of action to strengthen the evaluation function throughout UNICEF.

Disclosure should be made of how the board has evaluated its performance and how the results of the appraisal are being used.

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

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Delegations noted the six key findings of the evaluation and commended the approach and methodology used to assess outcomes.

6. With more than fifty countries visited since its inception, the Inspection and Evaluation Service has now at its disposal a considerable amount of useful information.

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