Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

And though the equation is largely subjective, you can perhaps quantify people, and perhaps quantify affluence, but technology is abusive in too many ways to quantify.

At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation.

(b) To quantify the social, economic and environmental implications of

It was difficult to quantify the indigenous population.

This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

(i) Quantify the effects of the measures it implements

Step 3. Quantify retirement, health, life accident and other relevant non cash schemes.

Saudi Arabia uses Habitat Equivalency Analysis ( HEA ) to quantify its losses.

The cost of these services would be extremely difficult to quantify.

Demand is very difficult to quantify for the marginalized and excluded segments of the population.

ARS researchers also developed fluorescence techniques and a prototype fluorescent instrument to discriminate and quantify crop residues.

Steps to quantify and include the unremunerated domestic activities of women in the gross national product.

However, for a number of reasons these consequences are extremely difficult to quantify.

UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

Project agreements should specify and quantify the direct technical inputs to be provided by an executing agency.

More broadly, the Secretariat should quantify the savings made when proposing outputs for deletion.

It was, however, rather difficult to quantify benefits before the programmes had been implemented.

They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it, and say, This is what I believe in.

The information is used to quantify the volume of activity in criminal courts and to help identify crime types.

Step 2. Identify and quantify all cash and non cash remuneration elements paid by the minimal number of potential best comparators.

Over the years, various efforts had been made to quantify the elements covered by the margin.

Inadequate monitoring made it difficult to quantify the overall damage to marine life from such activities.

And it's our attempt to quantify beauty by finding which regions of the brain are interactive while witnessing something beautiful.

The Council shall biennially review and assess

The Council shall biennially review and assess

f. Monitor, assess and report on progress

The Council shall biennially review and assess

Assess and narrow the range of uncertainties

(b) Assess risk both quantitatively and qualitatively.

National monitoring systems should include household surveys to assess the status of poverty and be able to assess progress.

Recommendation to specify and quantify the direct technical inputs is being implemented in UNDP funded projects through technical support services contracts.

There is clearly considerable tension on this issue and it is too early to quantify the progress that is being made.

Rating scales and other questionnaire techniques will be employed to enable the assessors to quantify the perceptions as far as possible.

Data on opium production were not consistent and it was impossible to quantify changes in illicit cultivation levels with any reliability.

The evaluation report did not, however, quantify how much of these gains was attributable to the project.

And this isn't something that you can quantify or track or measure, and we tend to undervalue things in society that we can't measure.

We can only assess all the accusations currently being made after we have gathered all the information and can assess the situation.

Expand development indicators to assess ethical and moral capacities

As well, there are benefits arising from the standardization of systems that are of a more qualitative nature and thus difficult to quantify.

The agency should make a special effort to quantify and publicize the real harm to consumers caused by the cartels that it prosecutes.

Some countries, for example Kenya and the Republic of Korea, reported on efforts to quantify women's contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP).

201. Some members considered that the current language incentive scheme was not rational, that it was indirect, difficult to quantify and not transparent.

Assess and cost human resource capacity gaps and infrastructure needs and

(e) Compare and quantify the difference in pension and other social benefits of the United Nations common system and the comparator employers for determination of salaries.