(g) Unrelated price benchmarking.

In both these countries, UNCTAD is providing assistance in benchmarking their business immigration practices with those of other countries.

(iii) Requested to further develop its Internet connectivity benchmarking tool, using extrabudgetary sources

The latter includes competitiveness benchmarking of investments in specific subsectors and enterprise profiles.

It took one year to obtain data via a benchmarking study from the agencies.

First, companies should modernize core competencies by benchmarking beyond the narrow confines of their industry.

The results will be followed up in the form of a participation index and benchmarking.

UNDP aims to further improve its capacity, efficiency and accountability by benchmarking itself with international standards towards a more networked and knowledge driven organization.

This facilitates benchmarking between country operations, provides management with assurance that activities are well or adequately administered and assists in identifying operations that require prompt corrective action.

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This will be done by benchmarking practices and achievements against relevant best practices in the internal auditing profession.

The COP should endorse the benchmarking framework for results based management (see paragraph 35 and footnote 12 above).

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Procurement benchmarking is tentatively on the agenda of the 30th meeting of the IAPWG in Moscow in May 2005.

Lastly, a lack of local benchmarking had been observed at the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).

This facilitates benchmarking between country operations, provides management with assurance that activities are well or adequately administered, and assists in identifying operations in which prompt corrective action is required.

What India was doing, though, was benchmarking itself against the best in the world, and it became a huge brand.

(g) Fully implement reporting through the Revenue and Expenditure Report and the use of benchmarking mechanisms for dissemination of best practices.

Collaboration with regional entities Developing standards and benchmarking for adaptation projects, which could support the LDCs during the implementation phase in identifying best practices Adaptation workshop(s) in the context of NAPAs.

In addition to selling advertising around the data, local newspapers could charge institutions for specific data analyses, benchmarking studies, and the like.

The second component will enhance the capabilities of developing countries and economies in transition in assessing and benchmarking their competitive industrial performance.

Other recommendations included launching global recruitment programmes of capacity building experts, and developing and benchmarking information for investors on standards of governance

Importantly, this report adds depth to its benchmarking analysis by describing examples of innovative grass roots programmes in the field of ICTs in Africa.

Findings with a financial impact may be identified while analysing processes, reviewing the utilization of assets, assessing procurement activities, reviewing the compliance of benefits paid with rules and procedures or benchmarking costs against the cost of other entities carrying out similar activities.

This internal benchmarking can also be used to market test and provide a value comparison between an in house department and an external service provider.

Spatial analysis and benchmarking are also applied to assess the relationships between the two sets of micro and macro data according to their geographic location.

The policy framework for investment could be used as a self evaluation and benchmarking tool and as a coherent framework for investment related policy reviews.

To date, the assessment of local police institutions has been ad hoc and dependent on the assessor's knowledge, since there is no standardized benchmarking tool.

There is a growing awareness, even in France not known for its humility that benchmarking is necessary, and that tough sacrifices will have to be made.

The problem is that in a world of universal benchmarking, the legitimacy of solutions will stem more than ever from their cultural acceptability and their efficiency.

Integrated programmes should include a policy advice component and, where relevant, a statistical component for proper benchmarking and evaluation so as to improve competitiveness and productivity.

(c) Consider sharing a set of similar core indicators across the United Nations common system in order to facilitate benchmarking in terms of deliverables and costs

Assesses the investment performance measurement process and reporting system at the Investment Management Service and the appropriateness of benchmarking and investment performance reporting in conformity with best industry practices determines the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal controls.

The independent experts should report on the needs assessment exercise within three months and, based on their findings, results based budget proposals should be drawn up by the Executive Secretary, in line with the benchmarking framework for results based management.

The COP should request the Executive Secretary to put forward results based budget proposals based on the findings of the needs assessment review, and linked to a medium term plan, in line with the benchmarking framework for results based management.

UNDP recognizes that more needs to be accomplished and, as part of this continuous improvement process, is benchmarking itself to international standards in areas of efficiency, performance and accountability.

The view was expressed that emphasis should be placed, and further information provided, on such aspects of the study as demand forecasting, benchmarking, performance indicators, cost analysis and staff training.

There still is room for improvement in the harmonization of practices, application of electronic solutions, performance measurement and benchmarking, and development of the professional expertise of in house procurement staff and of client organizations in the developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

The Minister underscored the need for domestic and foreign investment to reinforce each other and said that the Government, in association with private sector institutions, had launched a benchmarking exercise to monitor Kenya's performance vis à vis its main competitors in a number of areas.

Outputs Publication in 2007 of the Industrial Development Scoreboard, which will constitute the basis for the assessment and benchmarking of national competitive industrial performance and related drivers at global and regional levels.

Another delegate requested UNCTAD to undertake analytical work on the methodologies for assessing and benchmarking competitiveness in order to develop a framework to better assess competitiveness of developing countries and their enterprises.

In centralized support services, opportunities for process redesign can be vigorously pursued. Given the generic nature of some of the services, the practice of benchmarking against private sector practices has been beneficial.

UNHCR as well as United Nations wide senior management therefore did not have an appropriate benchmarking tool to help identify weaknesses that could be remedied by resorting to lessons learned in other entities.

Whereas socioeconomic development monitoring had focused on human outcomes social and economic conditions human rights monitoring also required considering several actors, process as well as outcome indicators, and benchmarking to measure progressive realization.

In this regard, an evaluation scheme for tourism websites, which might be of use for benchmarking by developing countries, was launched at the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization in November 2005.