(g) Unrelated price 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.

(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 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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When children are empowered, not only do they do good, they do well, in fact very well, as you can see in this national benchmarking assessment taken by over 2,000 schools in India,

The Tunis agenda also stresses the importance of the production of appropriate indicators and benchmarking instruments to monitor and assess progress in the use of ICT to achieve internationally agreed development goals and objectives.

MSRP objectives had been established early on, but the related quantifiable goals were not fully developed, making the benchmarking of results difficult as the legacy systems' work processes had not been sufficiently measured and documented.

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.

The Department was also looking into a benchmarking exercise on sick leave forecasting in peacekeeping missions and was to contact the Department of Management, which is responsible for determining sick leave benchmarks, to discuss this issue.

Moreover, since 2004, HLCM has incorporated the work of IAPWG into the Committee's agenda, and that procurement benchmarking is tentatively on the agenda of the thirtieth meeting of IAPWG, to be held in Moscow in May 2005.