The document sets out Dutch environment policy for the next few years. The preparations for this document included a gender impact assessment to determine the impact of the proposed policy on equal opportunities.

Efforts towards policy impact and learning benefited from the lessons learned through the impact assessment as well as from the independent external programme evaluations.

The gender impact assessment did not lead to any significant changes in the policy document.

Global Youth Action is trying to impact policy and lobbying organizations and authorities to include youth decision and policy making processes that will inevitably shape their lives.

With regard to the development of policy instruments, such as a health and human rights impact assessment, the Statement called for all policy decisions or agreements likely to have a significant effect on health to be preceded by a transparent and independent health impact assessment.

(f) Addressing the possible impact of general social and economic policy measures upon citizens' opportunities and willingness to volunteer

(d) Measures to ensure that such a policy will not have any negative impact on sections with high vacancy rates

The informal sector is a critical area that requires immediate policy attention, which would have direct impact on poverty reduction.

The group took the view that the board should disclose its policy and performance in connection with environmental and social responsibility and the impact of this policy and performance on the firm's sustainability.

Affirms its role to provide overall policy guidance on the use of the Fund to maximize its impact and improve its functioning

The Committee recommended that the State party monitor the impact of these policy changes for inclusion in its next periodic report (para.

The effectiveness of investment policy reviews is measured by the extent to which key recommendations are implemented and their impact is maximized.

The Committee recommended that the State Party monitor the impact of these policy changes for inclusion in its next periodic report (para.

In any case, the success of monetary policy is difficult to deny. As the deflation gap narrows, however, the overall impact of monetary policy will weaken, as it increasingly influences prices more than output.

For this reason a Gender Impact Assessment was commissioned for the Fifth Spatial Planning Policy Document (2001) and a policy document entitled What people want, where people live living in the 21st century' (2000).

But this approach does not work. If macroprudential policy limited additional credit to marginal borrowers effectively, monetary policy would have no impact on demand (as long as the most solvent agents refuse to spend more).

The latter instrument is mainly geared towards estimating the impact of planned legislation and policy on the social and economic position of women.

It seeks to examine a set of policy measures aiming to cushion the impact of economic and social downturns and overcome prevailing conditions.

My Special Representative has encouraged cooperation by all authorities, and initiated efforts to mitigate the humanitarian impact of the policy in specific cases.

The meeting discussed the main trends of OFDI from developing countries, drivers, the impact on enterprise competitiveness, policy practices and programmes supporting enterprise internationalization.

The method proposed here for exposing structural gender discrimination in law and public policy is supplemental to the existing instrument of Gender Impact Assessments (GIA).

The revision exercise would also be an occasion to evaluate the implementation of the Policy and its impact on the situation of women thus far.

This project will provide the PA with the analytical tools and build capacity to assess the economic impact and developmental outcome of alternative policy options.

Another delegation said UNICEF could achieve greater impact through policy dialogue with the Government and harmonization and closer coordination with other United Nations agencies and donors.

Clearly, a policy of reducing CO2 emissions would have had zero consequence on Katrina s devastating impact on New Orleans, where such a disaster was long expected. Over the next half century, even large reductions in CO2 emissions would have only a negligible impact.

It is expected that it will take 10 or more years before the impact of provincial policy, programs and services will result in decreased incidence of diabetes.

Advances in media technology have also facilitated a global communications network that transcends national boundaries and has an impact on public policy, and audience attitudes and behavior.

5. It is not just targeted measures that have an impact on volunteering general social and economic policy measures can also influence citizens' opportunities and willingness to volunteer.

The Court noted that the question is not whether courts can make decisions that impact on budgetary policy it is to what degree they can appropriately do so.

The role of the offices as centres for policy dialogue should be clearly fleshed out, including the definition of their target audiences and means of assessing their impact.

Dr. Stern, Paula, The Impact on the U.S. Economy of Lifting the Food and Medical Embargo on Cuba , World Policy Institute, 2000, in http www.worldpolicy.org projects uscuba index.html.

While the impact of Abenomics on Japan s economy remains to be seen, its impact on debates about monetary policy and the relationship between central banks and governments is already becoming apparent. One hopes that Carney will follow this trend of challenging conventional wisdom at the BoE.

A further set of issues related to the impact of CSR practices on FDI and trade, and on national policy responses, including the CSR friendliness of a business location.

In their role as centres for policy dialogue subregional offices achieved only limited impact as the intergovernmental committees of experts were not always viable instruments for fostering such dialogue.

If the EU is to progress beyond the limits of a common economic and monetary policy and develop a defense and security policy along with a common foreign policy, the UK must be on board. Exchange rate fluctuations between sterling and the euro disturb market forces among member states, and at times even have a negative impact in London.

20) were not considered practical. Nevertheless, the Committee remains of the opinion that national legislation and policy must take a holistic and comprehensive approach to the implementation of the Convention, which requires that priority be given to children's issues, that such policy be actively coordinated and that assessments be made regarding the potential impact of policy decisions on children.

Special attention would have to be focused on the impact of HIV AIDS on Gambian women, which had been a far less serious issue when the Policy was first formulated.

Analyse the extent to which the State party ensures that Non Governmental organisations are consulted and the impact of their advice on all levels of government policy formulation and implementation.

To illustrate the embargo's impact on Cuban sport, it is enough to mention one concrete effect that this criminal policy has had on the development of baseball, Cuba's national sport.

The event brought together ICT policy makers, statistical offices and telecom regulators, to discuss the need for internationally comparable data on ICT access, use and impact, share best practices in ICT measurement and examine some of the policy issues impeding effective measurement of the information society.

What policy options could help maximize the development impact of OFDI for home countries by enhancing the competitiveness of their enterprises, both larger and smaller ones, through this means of internationalization?

The velocity of money (the frequency at which money is spent, or GDP relative to base money) continues to plunge to historic lows. No wonder monetary policy has had so little impact.

Institutions that produce information need to make further efforts to provide data and statistical analyses that reflect the gender perspective, so as to have an impact on the formulation of public policy.

This step brings the results of the data collection and analysis (step 2) together with state of the art evidence on the effectiveness, cost and impact of alternative interventions and policy choices.

R. Maskus K., J. Wilson, T. Otsuki, Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade A Framework for Analysis , Policy Research Working Paper No. 2512, World Bank Development Research Group Trade, 2000.