(ii) Updated proposals for workload standards, efficiency and related performance indicators

(i) Parliamentary documentation report to the Statistical Committee on issues related to information and communication technology indicators

Expected accomplishments will be measured by the indicators of achievement and related performance measures.

Three atlases (Bolivia, Panama and Ecuador) were published, demonstrating significant gaps between indigenous and non indigenous populations in socio demographic indicators, including several indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) attempted to integrate indicators related to child protection in its regular data collection activities.

They could also underpin national forest programmes, criteria and indicators and the issues related to governance and law enforcement

Performance indicators have also been used in certain technical cooperation programmes, notably the Montreal Protocol and other environment related areas.

Thus far, a statistical system has not been developed that would provide data for indicators related specifically to women migrants and their health status.

She referred also to the work undertaken by the United Nations Millennium Project for translating the established targets of the Millennium Declaration into the related indicators.

In this declaration, the Committee committed itself to Developing a special set of indicators related to genocide and Strengthening and refining its early warning and urgent action as well as follow up procedures in all situations where indicators suggest the increased possibility of violent conflict and genocide.

At the regional and international levels, several organizations involved in ICT related research, policymaking and e measurement have begun to coordinate their activities in order to achieve global harmonization of ICT indicators.

Indicators

The Secretariat considers it a major step in the process of a comprehensive, coherent and structured shift towards reporting on outcomes and outputs and related achievement indicators.

Sustainability indicators and monitoring Indicators can be used to set targets for policies and to measure success in achieving them.

Among others, closer links should be fostered between the accounts and indicators, including links with sustainable development indicators, Millennium Development Goals indicators and indicators used in poverty reduction strategy papers.

Exposure Indicators

Universal Indicators

Performance indicators

Factual indicators

Legislative indicators

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Indicators and correlations are easier to demonstrate.

Nonetheless, OIOS found that many operations have not yet developed SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time bound) performance objectives and related indicators to allow comparison and benchmarking and to measure progress over a period of time.

Indicators to be measured include not just rates of obesity, high blood pressure, and incidence of disease and related costs, but also absenteeism, school grades and graduation rates, employment statistics, accidents, and the like.

The report presents cumulative results where possible, discusses key partnerships through which results were achieved, and provides time series data on indicators of progress and organizational efficiency related to the commitments of the plan.

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

Objectives and indicators

Other Health Indicators

Selection of indicators

(a) Favour those indicators that are closely related to existing data collection programmes, especially in developing countries ad hoc indicator demand should not interfere with building up a sound basic statistical system in a country

A few key indicators appear to support this.

Encourages Parties to develop and use impact indicators.

In developing human rights indicators to measure progress in development, it is important that we continuously question the validity and relevance of the indicators that emerge. We must ask ourselves, Are these right indicators?

These funds are being used to support, inter alia, the upgrading of the website on measuring ICT (http www.measuring ict.unctad.org ), which is an increasingly popular source of information on indicators, methodologies and statistics related to the information economy.

One of the chief difficulties in measuring poverty stems from the fact that over the last 15 years no two surveys have been alike to allow for a true comparison between one or more related indicators.

There are more problems with some indicators than others. There should be a specification of the programmes aimed to improve these indicators.

(d) The proportionately higher crime rates attributed to persons belonging to those groups, particularly as regards petty street crime and offences related to drugs and prostitution, as indicators of the exclusion or the non integration of such persons into society

Workload indicators, 2006 2007

(iii) Monitoring global indicators

Indigenous indicators of poverty

Chapter I. General indicators

Other ICT use indicators

(c) Verifiable achievement indicators

(c) Verifiable achievement indicators

(c) Verifiable achievement indicators