Quality, cost, delivery (QCD), sometimes expanded to QCDMS (Quality, Cost, Delivery, Morale, Safety), as used in lean manufacturing measures a business' activity and develops Key performance indicators.

It is a major marker to assess the quality of health care delivery.

(c) Quality in the delivery and management of services for children with disabilities  and

Quality, costs, and delivery times in auto manufacturing, for example, are reaching the European level.

Partnership building promotes sharing public service delivery responsibility and achievement, a quality that empowers civil society.

The link between education and economic success makes the delivery of quality schooling and training a hugely important issue for business as well.

At the same time, the state must improve the quality and delivery of education, health care, and security, while minimizing corruption and administrative abuses.

This implies more complex contracts that go beyond promoting markets, GDP growth, and employment to ensure inclusive, equitable, and high quality government services delivery.

Independent evaluation is a core service function of UNODC that contributes to accountability, learning, policy development and improvement in the quality of programme delivery.

For there is no action recognized by the emergency community without the ability to reproduce a high quality response, specific resources, good relations and rapid delivery.

The Registry has developed mechanisms, relevant policies and procedures to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of high quality services to all organs of the Court.

While UNOPS will seek to continue improvements to the quality of service delivery to UNDP, it expects continued erosion in the portfolio as direct execution is expanded.

The current technical cooperation strategy highlights three elements essential for successful delivery of the Programme strong Government commitment, high quality of technical cooperation projects, and adequate funding.

Sufficient and predictable funding through the core budget for core activities mandated by the Parties is essential for the timely delivery and high quality of these activities.

The UNOPS brand definition will be determined mainly by the characteristics of its service delivery quality, speed, efficiency, results, sound financial management, cost competitiveness and client orientation.

1.119 To prevent breakdowns in service delivery, and quality in fields under crisis situations by responding to the emerging health challenges while ensuring the sustainability of long term intervention strategies.

In the area of health care, the major concerns remain the limited access to services, the poor quality of service delivery and the Government's reduced capacities for monitoring and early warning.

We are in favour of establishing a mechanism to intensify the monitoring of follow up in the area of development financing so as to ensure the timely delivery of high quality ODA.

In order to further rise the level of customer service, in October 2004, the Tourist Board introduced the new hotel industry standards, which are designed to ensure high quality of service delivery.

The World Bank supports through its power sectors priority investments project the delivery of least cost, high quality electricity service through improvements in the Timor Leste electricity generation capacity and distribution efficiency.

Delivery mechanisms

The test, as always, is delivery, delivery, delivery' ensuring that the funds made available are spent with wisdom, responsibility, accountability and effectiveness.

Decentralizing service delivery

Means of delivery

(a) Controlled delivery?

Questionnaire on Delivery'

In a contract for the sale of goods, if the goods fail to conform exactly to the description in the contract (whether as to quality, quantity or manner of delivery) the buyer may reject the goods.

C. Project delivery estimates

We lack only delivery.

Means of delivery domain

24. Stresses that the mobilization and management of extrabudgetary resources should not adversely impact the quality of the delivery of the programme of work of the funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations development system

The Subcommittee noted that space system based telemedicine could provide significantly improved and cost effective access to quality health care, transform the delivery of health care and improve the health of millions of people throughout the world.

Further requests the Secretary General to undertake a cost benefit analysis on the use of an independent inspection mechanism to verify the fulfilment by contractors and vendors of all contract specifications regarding quality, hygiene and delivery plans.

They underpin efforts to create the conditions in which all citizens can participate fully in the development process and help shape service delivery and public policy to extend quality services to the poorest and most excluded groups.

Further requests the Secretary General to undertake a cost benefit analysis on the use of an independent inspection mechanism to verify the fulfilment by contractors and vendors of all contract specifications regarding quality, hygiene and delivery plans.

4. Stresses that the reform of the Department should be aimed at improving the quality of documents and their timely production and delivery and the quality of conference services provided to Member States, with a view to meeting their needs as efficiently and effectively as possible and in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly

Rather than making really substantive improvements in the quantity and quality of aid delivery, not to mention finding a path towards better governance in Africa, they chose a desperate plea for photo ops with Bono and Angelina Jolie.

Delivery project portfolio of services

delivery of the extradited individual

Estimated level of service delivery

terms of delivery and payment

It supported and strengthened families through the delivery of high quality support services to families through a network of some 70 family resource centres the target was for there to be 100 such centres by the end of 2006.

To the credit of its managers, DPI has succeeded in obtaining feedback on the quality of its products and activities without draining resources from daily programme delivery, testifying to the Department's ability to work creatively within tight budgetary constraints.

Crisis and management is a key function of public administration, and it cuts across service delivery and delivery functions.

Moreover, the delivery of RPTC in 2004 amounted to 4.9 million, while in 2003, RPTC delivery reached 4.7 million.