The Quality Improvement Funding Support Program offers financial assistance to assist child day care facilities to improve the availability and quality of child care services.

Improvement in related metadata and data quality.

Improvement of the quality and relevance of education,

Government position paper Gender Mainstreaming, a strategy for quality improvement'

Fifthly, there has been gradual improvement in the physical quality of life index.

Outer space was of growing importance to improvement of the quality of life.

(a) Develop and establish a more structured content improvement assessment framework, capitalizing on the work already done on quality measurement and quality assessment

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It was realized that, if all departments approached quality with an open mind, success was possible if the management led the quality improvement process.

In 2004, the Government of Québec published its Ongoing Quality Improvement Plan in Educational Child care.

That same money could be much better used to improve the quality of work in the classroom and for general improvement of the education quality.

They are mostly used either as part of a process improvement program or for rating prospective suppliers.

They also adopted São Paulo's original agenda for the improvement of the quality of the meals provided.

UNICEF increased its involvement in water quality improvement in 2004 and gains were made in arsenic mitigation.

We have noted an improvement in the quality and content of the report of the Security Council.

An important activity, which is necessary, is the improvement of family planning through the improvement of knowledge, availability and quality of services related to the use of methods of contraception.

In recent years, UNICEF (in partnership with WHO) has increasingly supported water safety planning, water quality monitoring and improvement programming.

In 2001 the Government issued a position paper entitled 'Gender Mainstreaming. A Strategy for quality improvement' for the period 2001 2006.

These relate, in the main, to the need for continuing improvement in the quality and processes of economic and political governance.

The Committee continues to place great emphasis on the improvement of the quality and quantity of information on its consolidated list.

In the United States of America, for example, public organizations are regularly assessed according to the Baldridge National Quality Program, a Total Quality Management (TQM) set of organizational criteria.

Their progress, therefore, depends on real improvement in the quality of an education system that was designed for the Brazil of the past.

UNICEF will work closely with partners, particularly WHO, to ensure that national policies support effective water quality monitoring, and where necessary, improvement programmes.

(c) Developing and improving concepts and methods in gender statistics is essential for the improvement of gender statistics both in quality and quantity.

The improvement in the quality of data reported since 1989 and later again in 1994 partly explained the significant increase in OFDI flows.

It was his skill at mobilizing large groups of people towards a specific common goal that was largely responsible for Japan's quality improvement initiatives.

The secretariat also concluded that further improvement is needed in the quality of documents to make them more readable and the language less complicated.

UNICEF will provide technical support in countries as appropriate for the development of water safety plans and national water quality monitoring and improvement initiatives.

From this analysis, the Fund will identify the process changes that will lead to an overall improvement in performance, productivity and quality of service.

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

It was based on a similar program started in Eskasoni, and studies showed that 89 percent of Eskasoni residents felt that the quality of health care services in their community improved during the program.

It also supported further improvement in the quality of the CCA and UNDAF, in whose preparation the Government should continue to play the leading role.

UNICEF will continue to work closely with WHO and other partners to ensure that national policies support effective water quality monitoring and where necessary, improvement programmes.

(c) Continuing improvement of quality and of processing time in the area of procurement through increased automation and further rationalization of the procurement process wherever possible.

This program is conducted under a bidding process using a formula where farmers request a certain percentage of cost share for an improvement such as drip irrigation.

For example, in South Africa the Education Quality Improvement Partnership, which was initiated by the National Business Initiative, works with education ministries, individual school administrators, parent teacher associations and non governmental organizations to improve the quality of education in government schools.

Therefore, development of specific therapies targeted at CSCs holds hope for improvement of survival and quality of life of cancer patients, especially for patients with metastatic disease.

(d) Ensuring that where national development strategies are in place, the improvement of the analytical and operational quality of such national instruments should be made a priority.

The Division has redefined the terms of reference of its Information and Communication Technology Service Unit to include responsibilities for quality assurance, continuous improvement and risk management support.

The focus over the next biennium would be the improvement of the quality of evaluations commissioned by country offices, and of evaluation support services provided by regional offices.

(b) The elimination of gender disparity in primary and secondary education requires an improvement in access, continuity, quality, and management of women's education at all levels with cultural relevance.

In the US, the National Flood Insurance Program of 1968 made it mandatory for those financing construction or improvement of structures within Special Flood Hazard Areas to buy flood insurance.

The Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) is the official Software Engineering Institute (SEI) method to provide benchmark quality ratings relative to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) models.

All of the above mentioned data indicate a necessity of continuous work on further improvement of protection of women during pregnancy (the increase of availability, education, control of service quality).

The IIA standards require a quality assurance and improvement programme to be developed and maintained, to cover all aspects of the internal audit activity and to continuously monitor its effectiveness.