Indicators to measure progress in establishing efficient transit transport systems

Consideration and evaluation of benchmarks and indicators used to measure progress

Sustainability indicators and monitoring Indicators can be used to set targets for policies and to measure success in achieving them.

(ix) Review of benchmarks and indicators utilized to measure progress and an assessment thereof

Such implementation should be quantified with a time bound set of indicators to measure the progress.

The LADA indicators are relatively easy to measure or obtain and are therefore of low cost.

(i) The tabular information that reviews benchmarks and indicators utilized to measure progress and an assessment thereof.

Its offices are now in the process of field testing indicators to measure progress towards these goals.

In developing human rights indicators to measure progress in development, it is important that we continuously question the validity and relevance of the indicators that emerge. We must ask ourselves, Are these right indicators?

The following panellists made presentations on indicators to measure the progress in establishing the efficient transit transport systems

98. The Unit has also begun devising and refining indicators to measure the impact of UNIFEM apos s interventions.

Reflection should also be pursued as to the possibility of identifying centrally standard indicators to measure performance at the organizational level.

Indicators correspond either directly or indirectly to the objective or the expected accomplishment for which they are used to measure performance.

The issues raised in Almaty were of great relevance to the African Meeting, particularly the one relating to indicators to measure progress.

Possible indicators and the information necessary to measure the achievement of these objectives are listed in the annex (category I).

The second part, held on 31 March 2005, was dedicated to an expert discussion on Indicators to Measure Progress in Establishing Transit Systems .

Indicators of achievement are used to measure whether and or the extent to which the objectives and or expected accomplishments have been achieved.

In particular, the Committee acknowledges the effective use of quantitative and qualitative performance indicators to measure the Mission's achieved and planned outputs.

17. Reiterates that indicators of achievement should be used, where appropriate, to measure the performance of the Secretariat and not of Member States

The Section included key indicators in its objective setting matrix for 2004 that were actions or objectives rather than tools to measure achievements.

She was convinced that effective implementation of the due diligence standard required measurable indicators, time bound targets and disaggregated data to measure compliance.

Others criticize the report s methodology, claiming that the indicators are not inclusive or that they improperly measure countries regulatory environments.

The performance measure for translation, for example, is expressed in pages, whereas workload indicators are given in thousands of words.

Benchmarks and or empowerment indicators should be developed to measure and monitor progress and ensure that gains were not eroded or lost over time.

(c) Sets of indicators to enable countries to assess human settlements conditions, devise appropriate policies and strategies and measure their impact on improving human settlements conditions

An observer for a State stressed the importance of introducing an ethnical perspective in plans for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and of elaborating participation indicators and indicators of results to measure the impact of national programmes.

A set of priority indicators to measure progress in prevention activities has been selected and methods are being devised for their use by national programmes.

The trends in the debt indicators of the sub Saharan region, as noted above, are a potent measure of the financial difficulty.

Members also expressed interest in the development of indicators by which States parties could measure the progress achieved in implementing their policies.

13. Reiterates, in this regard, the importance of establishing a set of performance indicators to measure the progress made in the implementation of the New Agenda

Whenever possible, these will measure impact for children and families using the Millennium Development Goal indicators and other globally collected data that are expected to be available.

Some entities, for example the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), noted the need for monitoring on a regular basis and for indicators to measure progress in implementing activities.

Ways to improve institutional monitoring could also be examined, while indicators could be established to measure progress in hard to quantify areas such as good governance and the rule of law.

He also discussed the importance of indicators to measure the impact of policies and actions aimed at achieving the Goals, which he linked to the question of investments and planning.

(b) Activities undertaken to measure the extent to which results have been achieved (measurement, by using indicators and performance measures, of expected accomplishments), including the tracking of progress through monitoring

Well, you measure and measure and measure.

Because the effectiveness of any given performance monitoring system is a function of the quality of the defined results and indicators designed to measure the progress towards achievement of those results, assistance to managers should also focus upstream on improving the definition of results and indicators.

9. Commission on Human Rights Seminar on Appropriate Indicators to Measure Achievements in the Progressive Realization of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Economic and Social Council decision 1994 244

The Government moved immediately to agree with UNMIK on the priority standards goals anticipated in my last report (see S 2004 907), and indicators by which to measure progress in implementation.

Given the absence of an overall project plan to coordinate the implementation of the Panel's recommendations, there were no indicators against which to formally measure the combined impact of their implementation.

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4. Welcomes the opportunity to participate in the seminar of experts on appropriate indicators to measure achievements in the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights, to be held in December 1992

2. Recommends that the Commission on Human Settlements pursue agreement by all Member States on a pool of common and easy to measure indicators applicable for national reporting and evaluation

A review of 22 indicators out of 53 showed that some of them were not used to measure achievements some seemed more like objectives or outputs than like measuring tools.

These principles could be applied in the areas of economic development, education, environmental stewardship, and governance, for example, to generate development goals and construct new indicators to measure progress towards these goals.