Identify areas for further improvement of the document management system, following the completion of the self evaluation project

C. Promoting self evaluation

(b) Self assessment by staff members

These norms and standards are now being applied in self assessments of each agency's evaluation activities.

(f) Revising the evaluation system

But to make ratings work, the raters need to be rated.

Adaptation was also a key element considered in the self evaluation.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

In addition, the authors of the Joint Inspection Unit report on managing for results stressed that self evaluation should constitute the backbone of any effective evaluation system .

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to continue to improve its evaluation tools, the follow up to evaluation and the use of self evaluation.

As a result, they lose their ability over time to evaluate critically their own actions and errors.

The measures being implemented will include improvements in data collection and monitoring systems and strengthening of self evaluation.

Initiatives by the secretariat in the context of the internal review of activities 14 Excerpts from OIOS support for the 2004 UNFCCC self evaluation 15 Synthesis of the submissions from Parties 16

Preparation of documents emerged as a priority area for improvement also in the secretariat's self assessment.

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A new charging system was introduced in support of evaluation activities.

(f) Revised evaluation system (number of new guidelines, tools and procedures)

The self evaluation exercise looked at strengths and weaknesses and pointed to areas where the Office could be improved.

The self assessment reports were synthesized at programme level and then peer reviewed by other programmes.

This self assessment and review process was supplemented by other initiatives to explore a wide range of perspectives on the secretariat's activities.

Sources UN Habitat self assessment report, OIOS interviews and desk review of relevant documents.

(a) Senior management needs to unequivocally emphasize self evaluation as a priority

One important step in promoting self evaluation has been the incorporation of a specific section on evaluation planning at the subprogramme level, in the programme budget instructions issued in September 2004.

They were independent within a federalized system of self governing States and Territories.

Rating agencies have been and should remain an important aspect of modern capital markets. But to make ratings work, the raters need to be rated.

It would also entail mutual accountability and a degree of self regulation in the system of special procedures.

Training in methods of evaluation and self evaluation should be arranged by the Office of Policy and Programme Coordination (paragraph 50) (SP 04 002 012).

(c) Self evaluation should be seen as providing an opportunity for lesson learning and corrective action initiated by programme managers.

There is agreement, however, that the major obstacles to self evaluation are an uneven commitment from programme managers shortage of time and resources and a lack of guidance, training and consistent monitoring of self evaluation.

While one of the main current ECA commitments was to strengthen evaluation, OIOS observed that evaluation and self evaluation activities at subregional offices remain weak.

The scorecard is much appreciated at country office and other levels, yet there appears to be no system of monitoring the resulting information, and there is little evidence that it influences recruitment decisions.

Senior managers should ensure that self assessment is used to promote effective programme management (see annex, action items 12 14).

(b) Managers should be encouraged to view self evaluation as an integral part of planning and assessing their work and not as an optional extra

The self destruct system would have to be designed so it could not function prior to the missile achieving safe separation from the firer.

36. Welcomes the efforts of the Secretary General to strengthen the system of evaluation and monitoring that underlines the importance of assessing programme impacts

Excerpts from OIOS support for the 2004 UNFCCC self evaluation

As part of the system of internal oversight, the Evaluation Group served as an important and effective tool for improving systems and service delivery.

The Economic Commission for Europe will prepare such a strategy in the light of the self evaluation on fund raising activities to be carried out in 2006 2007 and in close coordination with its Executive Committee.

The Working Group concluded that there are current gaps in the organizational learning process and shortcomings in the availability and quality of evaluation and self evaluation findings.

Furthermore, adequate training must be made available and managers held accountable for conducting self evaluation to allow a more effective management culture to take hold in the Organization.

The Working Group agreed that promoting more extensive and uniform use of self evaluation requires both top down and bottom up measures.

Self Measurement and Self Manipulation

Many States have engaged in a series of self evaluation exercises, and mutual evaluations , undertaken through regional bodies for countering money laundering that are similar to FATF.

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