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

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

Benchmarks tests

Progress on benchmarks

Currently, there was a plethora of partnership initiatives, but no common benchmarks or criteria, and the international community needed to provide guidance and regulation.

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

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 Goals and human rights have a reciprocal relationship. The former can provide relevant benchmarks to assess the realization of economic and social human rights.

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.

We are extremely pleased that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which provide each of our countries with a set of focused benchmarks for addressing critical development issues, have been maintained in full.

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 .

Requests the CST, through the GoE, to develop consistent and relevant guidelines for the preparation of national reports utilizing benchmarks and indicators, and to provide guidance on their implementation in the country profile

Doing Business is not intended to be a comprehensive review of each country s economy. Rather, it seeks to provide policymakers with benchmarks that can serve as a starting point for discussion of beneficial reforms.

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

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.

Mr. KANDIE (Kenya) welcomed the ongoing consultations on the development of UNIDO's long term strategic vision, which should provide benchmarks for the long term activities of the Organization as well as responding to the immediate concerns of Member States.

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.

It recommends in particular that decisive steps be taken to ensure that a sufficient number of health professionals provide services to indigenous peoples, and that the State party set up benchmarks for monitoring progress in key areas of indigenous disadvantage.

(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.

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

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.