iii. Benchmark for Women in senior positions'

Countries often use infrequent economic censuses as a benchmark enquiry in a combination with surveys of different frequency between the benchmark years.

Comparing with a superstar is the wrong benchmark.

The group targeted June 2005 as a benchmark date in their preparations for COP 7.

(a) Establishing appropriate benchmark indices, proportions and performance targets

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One solution for improving the quality and quantity of accountants would be via a benchmark for professional qualifications.

They are launched within days of a crisis and serve as a critical benchmark for framing initial life saving needs.

And I know TED is about big ideas, but actually, the benchmark for a big idea is changing.

Those 13 steps continue to be the performance benchmark for the disarmament process.

This forms the central benchmark for Italy apos s policy in this field.

This offshoring initiative might also serve as a pilot study and useful benchmark for further similar arrangements for a wide range of administrative activities.

Progress by FARDC in assuming effective responsibility for security nationwide would also constitute a key benchmark guiding the exit strategy for MONUC.

Source K. Zandvliet, Women in senior positions, developing a benchmark, The Hague, 2003.

Staffing has proceeded slowly, but there is scope for this benchmark soon to be met.

The census allows Australia to benchmark itself internationally.

Encouragingly, there is a growing acceptance among non participants of Australian Group measures as an international benchmark for effective export control.

Several countries found it practical to use disaster resistant hospitals as an example of a benchmark for reducing overall disaster risk.

The benchmark was implemented in January 1997 (A C.5 53 18, para. 33).

The EurepGAP standard, for instance, is likely to become a very important international benchmark for ensuring food safety and consistently high quality of horticultural produce.

Namibia has further committed itself to a 30 benchmark to ensure women's participation by 2005.

Relying on those numbers, the Governor stated that that represented the strongest period of growth for this critical benchmark in a decade .33

From a historical perspective, the creation of a permanent international criminal court will set a benchmark for the attainment of international criminal justice in the coming century.

The last remaining technical benchmark was the requirement for 65 per cent staffing of State defence institutions.

(i) To benchmark OIOS against similar audit and oversight bodies

Part of the Mixed' project is developing an international benchmark.

We believe that those 13 practical steps continue to be the performance benchmark for the nuclear disarmament process.

(b) The Quality Benchmark for the Social Summit a non governmental organization statement for the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit for Social Development in September 1994.

A model curriculum is currently being developed in order to provide each regional centre for space science and technology education with a benchmark of the academic level necessary for international recognition.

It should be a benchmark in the ongoing work on violence against women and pave the way forward.

One of the advantages of the Programme is that it sets forth a number of norms and principles that must become a benchmark for any undertaking in this area.

Three times major winner Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas set the benchmark for the Americans with two points on Saturday.

The data for these organizations may not necessarily suggest that they constitute a benchmark for the procurement profession, in the absence of comparisons with public and private sector procurement organizations.

K. Zandvliet c.s., Women in senior positions, developing a benchmark, November 2002 (House of Representatives Documents, SZW 03 234).

Significant progress has been made in Burundi and the successful conclusion of the transitional process was a major benchmark.

So this tells us that, in a global economy, it is no longer national improvement that's the benchmark for success, but the best performing education systems internationally.

The holding of the presidential elections within the time frame stipulated in the Political Transition Charter is a key benchmark for the full restoration of constitutional normalcy.

Council members emphasized the need for the Democratic Republic of the Congo to maintain the electoral timetable, which served as a significant benchmark in the political process.

The African Union had made the Goals the benchmark for measuring development in Africa in its Strategic Framework Plan for Development, which underscored the need for sound macroeconomic policies and a regional approach.

Traditionally, what was reported consisted of measures taken however, with this system of measurement, which now offers for the first time a benchmark for comparison, we have measurements of actual results.

Regarding work on developing an international benchmark for professional qualifications, this was a complex task, and she wondered if work by UNCTAD would help meet the need identified.

We will monitor progress with a view to raising the benchmark in the longer term in line with international norms.

Noting the work of the GoE in providing assistance for the development of appropriate benchmark and indicator systems for the monitoring and assessment of desertification,

Noting the work of the GoE in providing assistance for the development of appropriate benchmark and indicator systems for the monitoring and assessment of desertification,