Setting goals and targets

Setting targets and establishing a conducive environment in which these targets can be reached

The setting of such targets would be the responsibility of individual countries.

Instead of setting targets, this time leaders must decide how to achieve them.

Are we setting up targets for terrorists to attack us with all these skyscrapers.

It is noteworthy that this rate of compliance was achieved without the setting of any formal targets.

Instead, countries with a strong climate policy agenda should advocate dynamic formulas for setting targets.

China is setting ambitious targets for reducing energy intensity and making massive investments in renewable energy.

Our Group welcomes the European Union's move of setting targets in order to meet the 0.7 per cent ODA commitment by 2015.

They are needed for assessing the current development situation, setting objectives and targets for the future and measuring progress and development.

Senior managers Competence in gender implications of UNDP mandate, targets and functioning, with emphasis on agenda setting accountability leadership, and advocacy for gender equality.

In the view of the Advisory Committee the accomplishments achieved and data gathered by UNMISET could have been used as a baseline for setting specific targets.

Any effort that is concrete and implementable needs to monitor the results, and setting clear numerical targets is the best way to do so.

But most of these measures do not cost money, and, as the MDGs have shown, setting targets can be used to mobilize action from rich country governments.

That approach corresponds to the decisions made by our leaders at the 2000 Millennium Summit in setting out a series of time bound Millennium Development Goal targets.

They are also responsible for determining national priorities, policies and targets for sustainable forest management as well as for setting up a process to implementing it.

It also considers elements of possible future actions, including objectives, principal functions and priorities the setting of goals and targets emerging and critical issues and the financing of sustainable forest management.

Improved sanitation and hygiene practices could be encouraged by setting targets and providing incentives to communities to meet them (as with the zero open defecation initiative in India).

Ethiopia had significantly improved its capacity to mobilize domestic financial resources, and welcomed the recent debt cancellation for heavily indebted poor countries and the setting of timetables to reach ODA targets.

This evidence based selection of interventions and the setting of coverage targets for each of them in order to achieve Goals 4 and 5 will be guided by the processes in implementation approach A.

In paragraph 84, the Board recommended the establishment of policies and procedures on results based management to provide for strategic planning, setting of targets, monitoring processes, promoting effective management decisions and reporting on performance.

Setting a global goal in this regard may serve as a catalyst for action at all levels and encourage countries to set their own national targets to fulfil this commitment.

Targets

Some participants identified the following potential targets (or elements for targets)

Nuclear Targets

Funding targets

Priority setting

Standard setting

Standard setting

Standard setting

Setting standards

Physical protection of potential terrorist targets

Recalling the United Nations Millennium DeclarationSee resolution 55 2. outlining the interrelated commitments, goals and targets to be achieved on, inter alia, development, peace and security and setting the required framework for international cooperation for achieving those goals,

Beyond Inflation Targets

Smart Development Targets

International development targets

Objective and targets

Bad default setting!

award setting aside

At the national level, we have a strategic approach that embraces many of the principles advocated in the global report, including setting challenging and measurable targets, monitoring outcomes, developing action plans based on thorough research and analysis and encouraging cross sectoral cooperation.

This includes setting up a surveillance system around strategic official and public locations, as well as providing regular briefings and establishing communications directly with the management of hotels and tourist establishments, which are possible targets, to ensure that they remain alert and vigilant.

In the same way, we abhor the retaliatory action of militants who were responsible not only for launching rockets and mortars against Israeli targets, but also for setting off what has been described as the worst factional fighting in northern Gaza in years.

As already envisaged in the current plan of action, setting measurable targets at the national level could considerably facilitate the building of a stronger commitment to sustainable forest management and could also highlight the role of forests in contributing to the implementation of broader international development agenda.

9. Calls upon all countries to formulate and implement outcome oriented national strategies and programmes, setting time bound targets for poverty reduction, including the target of halving, by 2015, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty, which requires strengthening of national action and international cooperation

5. Calls upon all countries to formulate and implement outcome oriented national strategies and programmes, setting time bound targets for poverty reduction, including the target of halving, by 2015, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty, which requires the strengthening of national action and international cooperation