The LADA project paves the way for country driven, worldwide land degradation assessment and monitoring of the success of actions taken to combat land degradation.

There is also an International Association of Technology Assessment and Forecasting Institutions.

It fosters a culture of transparency and accountability and of striving to improve the performance of UNIDO's activities.

General description The programme component is an integral part of UNIDO's continuous improvement process and organizational learning.

quot (d) Evaluation seek ways to harmonize and simplify evaluation procedures while maintaining proper reporting and accountability, encourage participative evaluation approaches and strengthen NGO understanding of and capacities for evaluation. quot

These include training, transfer of technology and promotion of rural self help activities.

49. Its programme of development advisory services has been revised to include environmental policy and management guidelines, the use of remote sensing for environmental monitoring, and advanced technology assessment systems for the environment.

(c) Assess objectively social demands for science and technology based activities (for example, in health and education).

Mr. Sen (India) said that it was important to highlight the benefits of the application of space based technologies.

Seek ways to harmonize and simplify evaluation procedures while maintaining proper reporting and accountability, encourage participative evaluation approaches and strengthen the understanding of and capacities for evaluation of non governmental organizations.

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Space based technology continued to demonstrate its contribution to ensuring better lives for everyone.

Seek ways to harmonize and simplify evaluation procedures while maintaining proper reporting and accountability, encourage participative evaluation approaches and strengthen the understanding of and capacities for evaluation of non governmental organizations (paras. 226 238).

But other countries have set up independent and permanent monitoring and evaluation machinery by upgrading the existing arrangements.

55. The financial systems of most developing countries are generally not well suited to the needs of technology based projects.

Training has been provided and assessments completed by technologists at Hargeisa, Bosasso, Garowe and Gardo.

Other less demanding methods employ back trajectory analysis Assessment of the existing extensive scientific research effort on the regional and global transport of persistent organic pollutants may be appliedutilized

UNCTAD's work should be supportive of development goals, taking into account commitments undertaken by member States.

However, it could not tacitly endorse a resolution which was unbalanced and threatened to supplant existing technology transfer mechanisms by advocating global norms for the transfer of technology.

Successful investment programmes based on community lending and women's cooperatives show how capital can be provided to support technology transfer.

86. In the area of technology assessment, increasing attention needs to be placed on building and strengthening national capacities which link assessment to decision making.

24. In the area of technology assessment, increasing attention needs to be placed on building and strengthening national capacities which link assessment to decision making.

Evaluation at the country level

Evaluation at the project level

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Instead, the evaluation assessed the attention accorded to gender relations in country level policies, programmes, and institutional measures.

(b) The 2006 critical use nominations that were identified as unable to assess in the October 2004 report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel,

The technology for obtaining investment information is constantly being upgraded the resources requested would provide coverage for the existing systems and maintenance of equipment already purchased.

To note with appreciation the assessment carried out by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel and its Medical Technical Options Committee

in the October 2004 Report report of TEAP on critical critical use nominations for methyl bromide

C. Promoting self evaluation

A culture of evaluation

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F. Access to technology

The question of access needs to be addressed by making existing regimes more development friendly and there are several ways to overcome the problem of generating relevant technologies.

That is an example not merely of not sharing technology, but of using technology to harm countries lacking it.

A specific list of the uses agreed on an interim basis, and those which had been identified by TEAP as unable to assess , are included in the two tables below.

12. The representative of the Organizing Committee for the International Association of Technology Assessment and Forecasting Institutions (IATAFI) noted that IATAFI was currently being established under the auspices of the United Nations.

Governments also agreed to pursue evaluation studies based on the evaluation framework where appropriate.

Definition of results based management and results based budgeting

India, home to world leading software engineers, high tech companies, and a vast and densely populated rural economy of some 700 million poor people in need of connectivity of all kinds, has naturally been a pioneer of digital led economic development.

Consideration should also be given to existing conditions in developed countries for the transfer of technology not only in the public domain but also state of the art technology.

In order to have sustainable economic development, science had to have its proper place in culture, and economic strategies should be formulated along the lines of technology based development.

2. Fully agrees with the assessment that the application of new technologies for a qualitative improvement of weapons systems was seen as detracting from the efforts to reduce and eliminate the existing arsenals Ibid., para. 7.

The European Union believed that both the CCA and the UNDAF should adapt their cycles to the existing national planning cycle.