The meeting is expected to draw up a work programme with a timetable for joint methodological work.

Methodological points

D. Methodological research

Development of methodological standards

Methodological problems in data collection

Local coping strategies Integrating work on NAPAs into second national communications Benchmarking of adaptation Adaptation technologies Methodological work Capacity building needs during NAPA implementation Funding constraints faced by LDCs.

The methodological tools should be published in 2005.

While it does not offer new concepts or methods, its strong methodological component is designed to serve as a foundation for future empirical work conducted at the country level.

(c) Expressed its appreciation for the good work being carried out by the London Group on Environmental Accounting and reconfirmed its role as an expert body in charge of methodological issues, which would support the work of the Committee

(c) To work towards providing internationally comparable data that complies with international methodological standards and definitions, such as the international standard industrial classification ISIC, Rev.3, or its upcoming revision, ISIC, Rev.4.

Now, what I'd been trained to do was methodological research on such people.

A number of methodological issues emerged in the context of establishing performance indicators.

The UNITAR decentralized cooperation programme has designed and developed a methodological approach to preparing the ground work, through training and capacity building, for further implementation of concrete local development projects that benefit the local populations.

(b) Convening two expert group meetings on the design of methodological studies and survey instruments

The upgraded website will be more user friendly and will have enhanced functionalities for searching information, and for a discussion forum that allows practitioners from all countries to exchange knowledge and further develop conceptual and methodological work.

(b) Convening national workshops to strengthen stakeholders' methodological capacity in the area of macro micro analysis

Mr. Abdallah identified the institutional, methodological and doctrinal challenges on which his office focuses its action.

Another methodological challenge relates to activities such as policy advice, which are difficult to measure in quantitative terms.

Eurostat first published the methodological handbook on short term business statistics in 1997 and revised it in 2002.

Methodological approach to evaluation in the context of improvement of the design of certain specific types of munitions

Aiming continuously to introduce methodological improvements and systems to manage and improve the quality and transparency of statistics

French experts play an active role in the work of CCW, as can be seen from their proposal for methodological efforts to study possible preventive measures to ensure that munitions and submunitions do not become ERW and thus present a humanitarian risk.

In order to achieve the above objectives, five components for the programme of work of the Committee have been identified coordination promotion of the accounts implementation of SEEA methodological research and harmonization of data collection activities with environmental economic accounting concepts and definitions.

It is therefore particularly important to ensure methodological consistency and financial comparability between the initial calculation and the midterm recalculation.

A strong central function also assures common methodological standards, evaluative tools and professional guidance (see annex, action items 5 8).

It emphasizes practical issues, but also addresses some technical issues and reviews the most recent methodological developments in measuring poverty.

In recent years, the Voorburg Group has been concentrating on basic methodological issues related to producer price indices for services.

But several methodological and structural flaws associated with the poverty reduction strategy papers process render the initiative somewhat less tenable.

The programme supported the organization of the training course to provide methodological tools for project preparation for submission to the GEF.

The Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts plans to finalize methodological decisions of principle for the update in January February 2006.

The submissions were prepared according to an interactive and participatory approach involving staff at various levels and the provision of methodological approach.

For this, two analytical papers based on the UNIDO databases and two methodological papers for the compilation of industrial statistics were produced.

Item 1 Overview of a current understanding of FPIC as a methodological issue, in activities relating to indigenous peoples significance and challenges

IMF expects to finalize the proposed methodological revisions and complete a first draft of the revised manual by the end of 2006.

Development of national strategies for the development of statistics methodology the Partnership offers methodological advice and documentation, targeting different audiences and purposes.

These organizations have three main functions (a) data collection and dissemination (b) the development of methodological standards and (c) training and capacity building.

Quality frameworks include the integrity and methodological soundness of the framework of accounts and tables, dissemination standards and documentation of data sources (metadata).

The structure of the Division's programme has four parts statistical capacity building standards and methodological development coordination of international statistical activities and data dissemination.

Several Parties (e.g. Argentina, Bolivia, Ghana, Honduras, Republic of Moldova, Turkmenistan) described the methodological aspects of the assessment of measures in the waste sector.

UNOSAT support includes methodological guidance, satellite imagery selection and procurement, image processing, editing of maps and geographical information systems (GIS) services, training and research.

Methodological advances and experience in implementation suggest the need to bring environment statistics closer to the concepts, definitions and classifications of environmental economic accounting.

Along with a relatively minor spreadsheet error, they identified some methodological choices in the original Reinhart Rogoff work that threw the robustness of their results into question. Most important, even though debt levels and growth remained negatively correlated, the evidence for a 90 threshold was revealed to be quite weak.

Activities were started in 2002 for the reconciliation of methodological approaches for the calculation of total health care revenue and expenditure at the Entity level.

(b) Convening four regional technical workshops to share expertise, develop common methodological frameworks, identify best practices and establish working relationships and networks among beneficiary countries

As the question of universal implementation is to be considered in the final report, only methodological aspects of this issue will be addressed at this stage.