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Criteria based assessment in other national settings

Therefore, criteria based assessment shows potential as one alternative, as long as the views of citizens and community groups are incorporated throughout the assessment process, including during the determination of the assessment criteria.

Such situations should be covered by the criteria for ad hoc adjustments of the rates of assessment.

The use of criteria as tools for capacity assessment permits consideration of this concept in a practical way.

The main reason is that the assessment of the humanitarian risk cannot only be based on objective criteria.

There are several distinct steps in the criteria based assessment process, although some can occur concurrently.

The cofinancing organisations have their own gender policy, gender being one of the assessment criteria for the award of grants.

Bottom up approaches and methodologies to develop foundations and principles of public administration the example of criteria based organizational assessment

This six year effort offers a criteria based approach to organizational assessment designed specifically for the public sector.

To achieve this purpose of assessing governance and public administration capacity, there is an alternative approach, namely, the use of criteria based assessment.

The preferred option is generally to define the operating methods of the monitoring assessment equipment starting from a single scheme, and in many cases to build the assessment system using non exhaustive criteria.

With regard to the criteria for ad hoc adjustments of the rates of assessment, since such adjustments had so far occurred only in exceptional and extraordinary cases, it might be very difficult to formulate criteria for the future.

The questionnaire invited an overall assessment of effectiveness in relation to each specific criterion 17 of the 22 respondents (including the European Union) took the opportunity to provide an overall assessment for 1 or more criteria.

41. In January 1998, UNFPA issued revised guidelines for preparing consultant s terms of reference which include clear criteria for the supervision and assessment of assignments.

This assessment required the Panel to determine whether claimants satisfied the eligibility criteria established by the Governing Council in decision 225.

In the view of the Panel, the criteria for evaluating monitoring and assessment activities, as enumerated in the first F4 report, apply to this claim.

While many alternative approaches and methodologies are available, the criteria based assessment process presented in this report represents a potentially adaptive solution.

The Secretariat should therefore sharpen the focus of the Evaluation Group, refine the assessment criteria for the selection of programmes and enhance reporting and follow up procedures.

(a) Determination of opportunities for synergism among conventions, and the identification of specific areas and criteria for project development and assessment in which synergy would be appropriate.

If the criteria based assessment process is to be effective, the extensive amounts of information collected must be distilled into reports that are understandable and accessible.

Criteria based assessment in organizations can address these issues through a design process that incorporates multiple perspectives and incorporates views of citizens, especially members of the disadvantaged groups.

The criteria include (a) assessment of land quality in areas of suspected mine contamination (b) assessment of population density of those areas (c) assessment of the importance of agriculture as a source of economic sustainability for the populations of those areas and (d) assessment of the political and security situation with respect to the return of refugees and internally displace persons (especially the return of ethnic minorities) to those areas.

It was further suggested that an assessment of the criteria required in other multilateral environmental agreements should be made to determine their applicability under the Rotterdam Convention.

Increasingly, it is believed that citizens can play a role in the design of assessment criteria, thus ensuring from the onset that the priorities of the people are directly addressed by the process and also that the completed assessment will have greater legitimacy.

His delegation had repeatedly stressed the need for a mechanism to assess the effectiveness of skill building in the Secretariat, but the criteria for such assessment remained vague.

We believe, however, that clear and objective eligibility criteria based on needs assessment must be elaborated in order to ensure the equitable and balanced funding of such emergencies.

The selection criteria were raised at the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination Advisory Board meeting on 27 February 2006, and included letters sent to Governments requesting nominations for United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination induction courses.

This is closely related to UNCTAD apos s ongoing work on a trade efficiency assessment, as trade efficiency criteria will be introduced in the indicator.

Its success criteria and the linkage of results to the objectives of the change will provide a solid basis for a comprehensive assessment of the specific change implementation activities for 1998.

16. Reaffirms paragraph 4 of its resolution 57 4 B, and urges the Committee on Contributions to expedite its work on the criteria regarding ad hoc adjustments of the rates of assessment

These recommendations included strengthening the candidate nomination process by developing and adopting standardized criteria across all agencies, introducing competence assessment exercises into the RC Assessment Centre, improving and systematizing the RC induction process and reviewing the terms of reference of RCIG and IAAP to clarify their mandates.

2. Decides also that, in accordance with the same criteria, Timor Leste will be assigned to level I under the system of adjustments used for establishing rates of assessment for peacekeeping operations

No new project can receive funding before a pre screening visit has taken place and a positive assessment made, confirming that all eligibility criteria have been met.

(c) Criteria The following criteria are relevant to all implementing entities of the programme

The Commission recalled that, while the primary criteria used to determine the common scale of staff assessment were the tax rates at the seven headquarters duty stations, in the actual construction of the common staff assessment scale in 1996, it had applied judgements to meet the following specific objectives

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