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

Benchmarks tests

Progress on benchmarks

At the same time, we encourage the international community to accelerate its part of the work to establish the benchmarks that will be integral to the compact.

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.

To foster accountability in the near term, the international community should call on the next Afghan administration to establish its own goals for good governance and lay out benchmarks to measure progress.

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

Gender Equity Policy and The Nine Benchmarks

Benchmarks and indicators Progress has been slow.

Further, in view of the absence of staffing benchmarks to date, it is difficult to establish which procurement volume would justify full time specialist procurement staff in the field offices, and perhaps even at Headquarters.

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 .

Despite the US Congress s appropriate calls to establish benchmarks for American progress in Afghanistan, too few people are calling for the Afghan government to articulate its goals for improving governance and accountability, and how it plans to meet them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

(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.

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

One response to that may be developing benchmarks against which to judge the success of innovation efforts.

The first of the benchmarks, namely, the completion of investigations, was met at the end of 2004.

(i) The tabular information that reviews benchmarks and indicators utilized to measure progress and an assessment thereof.

But Portugal s debt levels are still highly problematic by historical benchmarks (based on my research with Carmen Reinhart).

Finally, research and analysis by UNCTAD on trade related development benchmarks in the area of services was stressed.

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

The Nine Benchmarks introduced in 1997 are an example of a concrete action to be undertaken by Government.

UNFPA also recommended including additional dimensions to the proposed benchmarks referring to the management of performance and contracts.

The Secretariat should develop a clearly defined strategic plan to implement the policy with indicators, benchmarks and timelines.

The review will cover the benchmarks that lay out the path to a multi ethnic, democratic and prosperous society.

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

Action plans with time bound, measurable benchmarks and targets have been developed to facilitate increased implementation of gender mainstreaming.

Also welcomes the structured, carefully planned and executed drawdown that allowed the established benchmarks to be achieved as scheduled

It invites the State party to identify disaggregated indicators and appropriate national benchmarks in relation to the right to water, in line with the Committee's general comment No. 15 (2002), and to include information on the process of identifying such indicators and benchmarks in its next report.

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.