C. Environmental impact assessment

Nevertheless, many challenges remain for enhancing the contribution of microfinance initiatives, especially for the sustainability of microfinance and for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the impact of microfinance on poverty.

(b) Social impact assessment for sustainable forest management

Assessment of the impact of suspension of recruitment

The Committee reiterates the importance of comprehensive and up to date quantitative and qualitative data on all aspects of early childhood for the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of progress achieved and assessment of the impact of policies.

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Socio economic impact assessments should include gender assessment clauses.

Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.

As clarified with the Board, 2005 was the first year that the Office of Audit and Performance Review implemented the new requirement for auditors of nationally executed expenditure to provide quantitative assessment of the financial impact of audit opinions.

Furthermore, within the framework of the project cycle management, the issue of impact assessment and the adoption of a set of standards for impact assessment measures will be pursued.

The impact assessment commissioned by the Dutch government supported this argument.

Nevertheless, the region still faces challenges in enhancing the contribution of microfinance initiatives to ensuring further poverty reduction, including the sustainability of microfinance, a lack of accountability and transparency and qualitative and quantitative assessment of the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction policies.

The first was the Homeostatic Model Assessment (HOMA), and a more recent method is the Quantitative insulin sensitivity check index (QUICKI).

If any negative impact is considered significant by the project participants or the host Party, project participants have undertaken a socio economic impact assessment and or an environmental impact assessment in accordance with the procedures required by the host Party.

If any negative impact is considered significant by the project participants or the host Party, project participants have undertaken a socio economic impact assessment and or an environmental impact assessment in accordance with the procedures required by the host Party.

A Regulatory Impact Analysis or Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is a document created before a new government regulation is introduced.

A general assessment of NTBs' impact will warrant frequency and coverage type measures, price comparison measures, and quantity impact measures.

(a) Promoting development and dissemination of impact and vulnerability assessment tools and methods

The preparations for this document included a gender impact assessment to determine the impact of the proposed policy on equal opportunities.

His delegation urged an increased use of pre assessment and ongoing assessment reports on the likely and actual unintended impact of sanctions.

The relationship between statistics, impact assessment and policy formulation in the area of FDI

This would provide a more detailed basis for the assessment of potential humanitarian impact.

(d) Assessment of the impact of United Nations information centres, taking into account their mandates

(ii) Annex I to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991

The gender impact assessment did not lead to any significant changes in the policy document.

Efforts towards policy impact and learning benefited from the lessons learned through the impact assessment as well as from the independent external programme evaluations.

What we do in the lab is actually measure directly, in a quantitative fashion, what is the impact of video games on the brain.

The special report includes quantitative estimates of the impact that the possible measures it describes would have on climate change if they were implemented.

During the reporting period, there were no pre assessment reports or ongoing assessment reports concerning the likely and actual unintended impact of sanctions on third States.

A gender impact assessment of the Life Course Savings Scheme will be carried out in 2004.

An assessment should be made of the likely impact of the cooperation on the affected minorities.

(a) Both pre assessment reports and ongoing assessment reports include as part of their analysis the likely and actual unintended impact of the sanctions on third States and recommend ways in which the negative impact of sanctions can be mitigated

(a) Both pre assessment reports and ongoing assessment reports include as part of their analysis the likely and actual unintended impact of the sanctions on third States and recommend ways in which the negative impact of sanctions can be mitigated

(c) A preliminary assessment of the possible impact of the proposed exploration activities on the marine environment

She also discussed the assessment of the impact of the trade policies of OECD countries in Africa.

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t) Promote the collection of gender disaggregated data both qualitative and quantitative for nationally monitoring and evaluating the impact of globalisation and trade liberalization on women.

The current reporting system, however, does not enable an assessment of the effectiveness and impact of individual actions.

In accordance with the Madrid Protocol, environmental impact assessment procedures have been developed for activities undertaken in Antarctica.

However, as in the case of price comparison measures, it might be very difficult to obtain appropriate data to compute the exact quantitative impact of an NTB.

And if assessment of state action were based only on a set of pre defined quantitative targets, ministers would also understandably but mistakenly neglect quality and other important objectives.

With regard to the development of policy instruments, such as a health and human rights impact assessment, the Statement called for all policy decisions or agreements likely to have a significant effect on health to be preceded by a transparent and independent health impact assessment.

(i) Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991, General provision

This fact has also been confirmed by the results of the independent Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, published in 2004.

Second, while monetary policy has limited impact when the problems are excessive debt and insolvency rather than illiquidity, credit easing, rather than just quantitative easing, can be helpful.