Impact Assessment Group

Nevertheless, many challenges remain for enhancing the contribution of microfinance initiatives, especially for the sustainability of microfinance and for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the impact of microfinance on poverty.

C. Environmental impact assessment

The Committee reiterates the importance of comprehensive and up to date quantitative and qualitative data on all aspects of early childhood for the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of progress achieved and assessment of the impact of policies.

The Committee reiterates the importance of comprehensive and up to date quantitative and qualitative data on all aspects of early childhood for the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of progress achieved, and for assessment of the impact of policies.

(b) Social impact assessment for sustainable forest management

Assessment of the impact of suspension of recruitment

Socio economic impact assessments should include gender assessment clauses.

Nevertheless, the region still faces challenges in enhancing the contribution of microfinance initiatives to ensuring further poverty reduction, including the sustainability of microfinance, a lack of accountability and transparency and qualitative and quantitative assessment of the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction policies.

Furthermore, within the framework of the project cycle management, the issue of impact assessment and the adoption of a set of standards for impact assessment measures will be pursued.

If any negative impact is considered significant by the project participants or the host Party, project participants have undertaken a socio economic impact assessment and or an environmental impact assessment in accordance with the procedures required by the host Party.

A general assessment of NTBs' impact will warrant frequency and coverage type measures, price comparison measures, and quantity impact measures.

(a) Promoting development and dissemination of impact and vulnerability assessment tools and methods

His delegation urged an increased use of pre assessment and ongoing assessment reports on the likely and actual unintended impact of sanctions.

This would provide a more detailed basis for the assessment of potential humanitarian impact.

The special report includes quantitative estimates of the impact that the possible measures it describes would have on climate change if they were implemented.

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

(d) Assessment of the impact of United Nations information centres, taking into account their mandates

(ii) Annex I to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991

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

The subprogramme will use quantitative techniques and produce impact analyses and continue to analyse issues of uncertainty and risk that affect investment, economic growth and unemployment.

t) Promote the collection of gender disaggregated data both qualitative and quantitative for nationally monitoring and evaluating the impact of globalisation and trade liberalization on women.

During the reporting period, there were no pre assessment reports or ongoing assessment reports concerning the likely and actual unintended impact of sanctions on third States.

(a) Both pre assessment reports and ongoing assessment reports include as part of their analysis the likely and actual unintended impact of the sanctions on third States and recommend ways in which the negative impact of sanctions can be mitigated

(a) Both pre assessment reports and ongoing assessment reports include as part of their analysis the likely and actual unintended impact of the sanctions on third States and recommend ways in which the negative impact of sanctions can be mitigated

A gender impact assessment of the Life Course Savings Scheme will be carried out in 2004.

An assessment should be made of the likely impact of the cooperation on the affected minorities.

However, as in the case of price comparison measures, it might be very difficult to obtain appropriate data to compute the exact quantitative impact of an NTB.

(c) A preliminary assessment of the possible impact of the proposed exploration activities on the marine environment

She also discussed the assessment of the impact of the trade policies of OECD countries in Africa.

4 (a)), UNDP is committed to taking a holistic approach to addressing the recommendations of the Board. As clarified with the Board, 2005 was the first year that the Office of Audit and Performance Review implemented the new requirement for auditors of nationally executed expenditure to provide quantitative assessment of the financial impact of audit opinions.

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.

The current reporting system, however, does not enable an assessment of the effectiveness and impact of individual actions.

In accordance with the Madrid Protocol, environmental impact assessment procedures have been developed for activities undertaken in Antarctica.

(i) Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991, General provision

This fact has also been confirmed by the results of the independent Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, published in 2004.

Each Party shall take the necessary legal, administrative or other measures to implement the provisions of this Convention, including, with respect to proposed activities listed in Appendix I that are likely to cause significant adverse transboundary impact, the establishment of an environmental impact assessment procedure that permits public participation and preparation of the environmental impact assessment documentation described in Appendix II.

The introduction of quantitative and qualitative success indicators would enable the Committee to evaluate impartially the impact of the recommendations of JIU and the depth of its analyses and management assessments.

The Contracting Parties shall agree to carry out environmental impact assessment of hazardous activities, and to implement risk reducing measures.

In particular, more emphasis must be placed on analysis and definition of objectives and outcomes, as well as impact assessment.

The 1999 Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment in Antarctica have been revised to ensure that cumulative impacts are explicitly addressed.

CLIRUN is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet based integrated water balance model developed for climate change impact assessment of river basin runoff.

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.

Quantitative Easing for the People

Realizing the need to undertake a thorough, independent and comprehensive assessment of the social, environmental and cultural impact of globalization on societies,