And you can measure the performance, in terms of energy consumption, of that building against a typical library.

Achievable targets needed to be formulated against which to measure UNIDO's performance in assisting the industrialization efforts of the developing countries.

While it remains difficult to measure results precisely, we will rigorously evaluate our performance against the detailed objectives of this Plan.

There are important caveats. The Government Performance Project model did not measure performance per se.

when they measure against the people , take full measure

In this connection, it is important to develop tools to measure performance.

Staffing efficiency is only one measure of the cost efficiency of procurement performance.

Identifying and negotiating goals at the beginning of a reporting period allows managers to measure performance against predetermined goals assignments at the end of a reporting period.

It is our common duty to measure every Member State's actual performance against the universal standards of human rights, including when that means naming and even shaming.

For example, the term performance measure is not defined in the programme planning regulations.

The hydrologist can then score his system against this scale and obtain a measure of the performance of the system, both as a whole and for separate components.

A monitoring mechanism to measure change against established benchmarks

Reporting will focus on performance against expected results.

When we measure GDP as a measure of economic performance at the national level, we don't include our biggest asset at the country level.

UNDP has developed a Gender Scorecard as a monitoring tool to measure organizational performance and results.

UNFPA should monitor performance against these statements (para. 80)

Performance and budget reports are prepared consecutively and cannot be prepared simultaneously, as performance data is a key measure used in the analysis of budget requirements.

Moreover, migration has historically been the most effective measure against poverty.

Therefore , maintain just measure and do not transgress against the Balance .

Therefore , maintain just measure and do not transgress against the Balance .

The bond is the United Nations lien against contractor performance.

It is possible to construe the analysis as a measure of management performance, and some have done so.

Under indicator of achievement (iii), performance measures, before Number of unrepresented Member States , add a performance measure, reading Level of under representation of Member States to be determined .

They were taking 3,000 children, they were going to give them all these huge fish oil pills, six of them a day, and then a year later, they were going to measure their school exam performance and compare their school exam performance against what they predicted their exam performance would have been if they hadn't had the pills.

They were taking 3,000 children, they were going to give them all these huge fish oil pills, six of them a day, and then a year later, they were going to measure their school exam performance and compare their school exam performance against what they predicted their exam performance would have been if they hadn't had the pills.

149. Past and present performance evaluation efforts of the Secretariat fail because they measure the characteristics and traits of staff subjectively, rather than their actual performance and work accomplished.

The case against Bernanke rested partly on his performance before the crisis.

UNFPA should monitor performance against those statements (paras. 9 (h) and 80).

The performance measure for translation, for example, is expressed in pages, whereas workload indicators are given in thousands of words.

(b) Training of selected staff in supervisory positions in setting individual performance objectives, providing feedback and evaluating staff against established performance criteria

Information on performance of the programmes financed, including actual results achieved against targets.

Reflection should also be pursued as to the possibility of identifying centrally standard indicators to measure performance at the organizational level.

The measure of the performance and image of the United Nations is inextricably tied to the capabilities of its General Assembly.

Concerning the elements of the scale methodology, the income measure must give a clear and unbiased picture of overall economic performance.

Indicators correspond either directly or indirectly to the objective or the expected accomplishment for which they are used to measure performance.

We're going to take dozens of hours at some field across campus at some ungodly hour of the morning and we're going to measure your performance, and your team's performance, and if you don't measure up or you don't show up, we're going to cut you off the team.

Well, you measure and measure and measure.

By contrast, a better measure of economic performance might show that steps taken to improve the environment are good for the economy.

To measure institutional performance, UNDP has produced a new corporate scorecard', which has inspired other mainstream agencies and donors to do likewise.

In particular, the Committee acknowledges the effective use of quantitative and qualitative performance indicators to measure the Mission's achieved and planned outputs.

The Advisory Committee observes that performance data under certain objects of expenditure consistently reflect a good measure of control and financial discipline.

And the cost of a transistor cycle, which is a measure of the price performance of electronics, comes down about every year.

Delivery itself continued to remain an important indicator of organizational performance, but needs to be defined more broadly as expenditure towards impact, so as to measure and ensure the performance of a knowledge organization.

17. Reiterates that indicators of achievement should be used, where appropriate, to measure the performance of the Secretariat and not of Member States

The pattern of Republican deficiency holds up when the span of historical analysis is extended by using stock returns to measure economic performance.