Benchmarks tests

Progress on benchmarks

Software benchmarks are, for example, run against compilers or database management systems.

The Committee's concluding comments provide benchmarks for future action by States parties.

Progress on benchmarks for the residual presence of the Mission in Sierra Leone

Gender Equity Policy and The Nine Benchmarks

Benchmarks and indicators Progress has been slow.

A monitoring mechanism to measure change against established benchmarks

Comment by the Administration. Performance benchmarks are being implemented.

In indicator of achievement (ii), performance measures (target 2004 2005), replace 80 per cent of benchmarks with 100 per cent of benchmarks within expected time frame .

The benchmarks will be completed later in the year, following parliamentary and provincial elections scheduled for September 2005.

(m) Develop monitoring guidelines and indicators for achieving Goal 2 regarding indigenous children and set benchmarks in that regard

The other main political objective was to meet the benchmarks set by NATO for Bosnia and Herzegovina to join the Partnership for Peace.

Rather, it seeks to provide policymakers with benchmarks that can serve as a starting point for discussion of beneficial reforms.

Only with more complete information can the achievement of benchmarks and measures for the advancement of women worldwide be assessed.

The setting of benchmarks was as important as the use of indicators.

The General Assembly should formulate clear objectives and benchmarks in that regard.

It includes a detailed plan setting out priorities, benchmarks, timelines and costs.

First, Canada has encouraged more constructive draft resolutions that reflect current dynamics and include mechanisms for follow up on agreed benchmarks.

Accordingly, the Secretary General's report should have included more specific targets, benchmarks and time limits for the purpose of monitoring progress.

The country had done well to adopt global benchmarks in such instruments as

About one third of the countries did not report on benchmarks and indicators.

In addition, she asked about the benchmarks used as indicators of women's health.

Progress in developing and using benchmarks and indicators, particularly ecological indicators, remains modest.

As a result nine benchmarks or goals were adopted under the Gender Equity policy

(d) To identify best practices, propose benchmarks and facilitate information sharing throughout the system.

Joy over the election s outcome, however, should not blind us to its failure to meet a series of ethical benchmarks for democratic choice.

(b) Establishment of a conceptual framework for integration of benchmarks and indicators (B I), monitoring and assessment, and early warning systems (EWSs) and

(d) Promote common evaluation and monitoring tools, indicators and benchmarks based on commonly agreed standards

The holding of parliamentary elections is one of the final benchmarks in the Bonn process.

All of this highlights the need for new benchmarks for performance and compensation that factor in vulnerability to periodic systemic risk, with special attention to debt and liquidity.

In paragraph 309 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's reiterated recommendation to establish benchmarks for performance for contract letting and to monitor performance against those standards.

That agreement not only contains benchmarks that should lead to self determination for Sudan s South it also spells out a democratization process in Sudan itself.

The report highlighted several key issues, including benchmarks for measuring progress towards mutually agreed commitments the challenges of improving aid effectiveness and promoting policy coherence.

DPKO should ensure that each mission has an exit strategy for UNMOs that builds on established benchmarks and links with the post peacekeeping phase (paras.

Requests the Secretary General to provide recommendations on a drawdown plan for UNMIL, including specific benchmarks and a tentative schedule, in his March 2006 report

471) progressively roll out cash position worksheets to more country offices in 2006 2007 and explore the use of performance benchmarks for portfolio management (para.

We look to the London conference in January 2006 to provide the necessary planning frameworks, benchmarks and strategic direction for the future rebuilding of Afghanistan.

The data in the table should be complemented by other comparisons in order to facilitate the development of performance benchmarks for the international procurement system.

In 1997 some of these action plans were incorporated in the Nine Benchmarks as national plans.

All partnerships should establish clear benchmarks and time bound targets against which they could be evaluated.

The remaining technical benchmarks for defence reform were met in the second half of 2004, except for the one requiring 65 per cent staffing of the State defence institutions.

d) Establish benchmarks, indicators and accurate sex disaggregated databases for more effective planning, implementation and evaluation of progress for the attainment of de facto equality for women, and monitoring nationally the same

The decision requested the Party to submit, as a matter of urgency, a plan of action with time specific benchmarks for ensuring its return to compliance.

The questionnaire invited remarks in relation to each specific criterion, an assessment according to the various activities7 of the international arrangement8 and suggestions for quantifiable benchmarks.