Annex B Definitions of Decentralization Concepts

Monitoring, assessment and reporting, and concepts, terminology and definitions

Metadata about meaning to understand content, concepts and definitions.

E. Harmonization of data collection activities with environmental economic accounting concepts and definitions

Gradually, its concepts and definitions became outdated as compared with the Harmonized System and the Central Product Classification.

The Interlaken Workshop on decentralization of the forest sector considered various concepts, definitions and terms currently employed in the implementation of this activity.

Specific criterion (iv) The extent to which progress has been made in reaching a common understanding of forest related concepts, terminology and definitions

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

(d) Internationally agreed standard concepts, methods, classifications and definitions for energy statistics have to be developed on the basis of existing guidelines and best practices

The Statistics Division is investigating possible linkage of DQAF with its questionnaire on countries' compliance with the second revision of International Merchandise Trade Statistics Concepts and Definitions.

(e) Work towards the harmonization of data collection activities of environment and related statistics with concepts and definitions of environmental economic accounting, including the assurance of data quality.

The Task Force had contributed to the preparation of this companion document to the second revision of International Merchandise Trade Statistics Concepts and Definitions,5 published in 1998.

Concepts, definitions, classifications, sources, methods and procedures employed in the production of international statistics are chosen to meet professional scientific standards and are made transparent for the users.

The adoption of the FAO proposal for the Central Product Classification, supplemented by comments from countries, has helped in the revision of structures, and in the clarification of concepts and definitions.

Documenting the concepts, definitions and classifications as well as the data collection and processing procedures used and the quality assessments carried out and making this information publicly accessible

Action by the Partnership on reaching a common understanding on concepts, terminology and definitions has also been beneficial and has helped in achieving greater harmonization of national forest programmes and their equivalents.

The Statistics Division has also established a technical subgroup on human functioning and disability to review and update current census recommendations on disability with regard to concepts, definitions and classifications.

CPF members confirm that their technical work has gone a long way towards fostering a common understanding of forest related concepts, terms and definitions, but that further work is needed in some areas.

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Harmonizing environment statistics and environmental economic accounting concepts, definitions and classifications would introduce statistical checks and balances in the data and produce consistent data systems from individual sets of environment statistics across time and countries.

The internet and the implications of such open mediums like blogs, the definitions of personal freedoms, and the concepts of Law and State, between the different ideological currents roughly representing a Secular and Religious outlook for the future.

However, even with these improved database systems, the international comparability of databases will remain limited unless the harmonization of concepts, definitions, classifications and other methodological elements is pursued according to common international standards by the international statistical community.

The Committee would establish a programme of work that identifies differences and similarities between the environment statistics questionnaires and the accounting tables and devise a strategy to bring data collection into line with accounting concepts and definitions.

Definitions and rules of interpretation

Article 2 Definitions

Article 1 Definitions

Article 4. Definitions

Article 4 Definitions

Section II Definitions

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The website will not only host the Common Data Set, but also serve as an entry portal to Task Force member organizations' merchandise trade databases and to existing methodological publications containing applicable concepts, definitions and classifications.

Types and definitions of table olives

Definitions (draft article 1)

Further clarifications on definitions of eligible activities

The discussion focused mainly on the subject of play in its various forms and nuances emphasis was put on the definitions of play, the relationship between play, learning and development and the different concepts of play that exist in different locations, cultures and beliefs.

Chapter 2 Concepts of poverty

Mr. Klein highlighted some issues outlined in the draft paper, including concepts and definitions of adaptation to climate change implications for developing and transferring technology a proposed conceptual framework for addressing technologies for planned adaptation to climate variability and change and policy issues.

The process started with a senior management retreat in December 2004, exclusively devoted to RBM, which set in motion a comprehensive and participatory exercise aimed at ensuring a full and common methodological understanding of RBM, and providing clear definitions of RBM concepts, techniques and terminology.

International and regional organizations and specialized agencies, national statistical offices and other research institutions need to work together to develop and revise concepts, definitions and methodologies for use in data collection in areas where such standards and methods are lacking.

Decentralization, Deconcentration and Devolution A Sampling of Definitions

There are different definitions of public private partnerships.

Concepts and methodology