The eight original MDGs, which include reducing child mortality and achieving universal primary education, are lauded for their simplicity and measurability.

Despite or because of this lack of definition and measurability, policymakers, write Böhringer and Keller, exploit the energy security argument to justify a myriad of measures.

The Committee encourages the administration to further improve the results based budgeting presentation by improving measurability and transparency in the presentation of performance indicators and outputs.

Its terms of reference will include, inter alia, the assurance of quality and adherence to high standards of all such activities, including clarity and measurability of objectives

The Board recommends that consideration of the measurability of project objectives should be a clearly specified element in management apos s review of the work of technical staff.

quot (m) Technical cooperation projects need to be tailored more closely to the management environment in which they will operate, and the measurability of project objectives should be enhanced

In particular, the Committee called for improving the measurability of indicators of achievement and outputs as well as the setting of time frames for implementation to facilitate monitoring and reporting.

(m) Technical cooperation projects need to be tailored more closely to the management environment in which they will operate, and the measurability of project objectives should be enhanced (see paras. 184 and 186)