Examples of using Methodological standards in English and their translations into Arabic
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Development of methodological standards.
In the light of the serious nature of these findings, the Group has adopted elevated methodological standards.
Setting methodological standards for the CDM.
Possible steps for clarifying methodological standards.
Further strengthen and document methodological standards and expert group reporting guidelines in consultation with the Office of Legal Affairs and expert groups.
UNCTAD also provides technicalcooperation to collect data based on international methodological standards and to enhance skills to use them.
The regional training course on methodological standards for data compilation aims to support government agencies to apply and test a system for data compilation on FDI.
The United Nations Manual for the Development of a System ofCriminal Justice Statistics represents international methodological standards and guidelines in this area.
Victimization surveys: develop methodological standards for surveys and related indicators.
Methodological standards to better understand patterns and trends in a number of crimes need to be developed or consolidated if we wish to better inform policymaking at both the national and international levels.
Monitoring mechanisms should, where appropriate, state their methodological standards at the outset of each report and adhere to those standards. .
Recalling the methodological standards for reports of sanctions monitoring mechanisms contained in the Report of the Informal Working Group of the Security Council on General Issues of Sanctions(S/2006/997).
The programme helps toensure the conformity of the national systems with international methodological standards and with the information requirements of the international community.
As part of work to further improve CDM methodological standards, new tools were developed and standardized approaches were provided for in existing methodologies, which included the use of a benchmark approach for additionality demonstration.
Such technical assistance could, for example, be provided to help establishsystems for data compilation in line with international methodological standards and create the local capacity needed to maintain such a system.
As part of the work to further improve CDM methodological standards, new tools were developed and standardized approaches were provided for in existing methodologies through a top-down approach, which included the use of a benchmark approach for additionality demonstration.
Recommendation 1: The Department of Political Affairs, in consultation with the Office of Legal Affairs and experts,should further strengthen and document common methodological standards and expert group reporting guidelines.
A strong central function also assures common methodological standards, evaluative tools and professional guidance(see annex, action items 5-8).
However, OIOS was concerned that ESCWA and ECA had not established separate statistics divisions with aminimum critical mass of statisticians to guarantee methodological standards in their respective regions.
These workshops helped beneficiary countries to implement international methodological standards and set up data compilation and dissemination systems to produce internationally comparable FDI statistics.
OIOS concluded that the re-establishment of separate statistics divisions would strengthen the statistical strategy and outputs of ESCWA and ECA andimprove methodological standards in the respective regions.
The evolutive interpretation andthe full compliance with international humanitarian law are two precise methodological standards shaping the activities performed by the Italian Armed Forces in the out-of-area operational theatres.
The Economic Commission for Africa should review whether the re-establishment of separate statistics divisions, with a minimum critical mass of statisticians,would strengthen their statistical strategy and outputs and better guarantee methodological standards in their respective regions.
That document, wide-ranging in scope and with a long-term perspective,identified concrete areas of work for strengthening methodological standards on crime statistics, supporting countries ' capacities and improving international data on and analyses of crime.
OIOS recommends that ESCWA and ECA review the need for a separate statistics division, with a minimum critical mass of statisticians to strengthen their statistical strategyand outputs and better guarantee methodological standards in their respective regions.
Where methodological standards for statistics and indicators of the data template are missing or considered inadequate(such as in the area of rapid estimates, business cycle composite indicators and tendency surveys), appropriate programmes of work are recommended to remedy these methodological gaps.
(b) Improved technical capacity in the national statistical offices of participating countries to collect, compile,analyse and disseminate data on the informal economy in line with international methodological standards and to compile exhaustive estimates of the GDP.
Common methodological standards, allowing for different mandates and drawing on the best practices and lessons learned from the accumulated experience of past and present sanctions monitoring mechanisms, could provide a useful reference point for such mechanisms for identifying and verifying sanctions violations and for evaluating the reliability of sources.".
While these publications represent a positive step towards standardizing expert group methodology, OIOS believes that further work to develop and document comprehensive,consistent and detailed methodological standards for expert group reports would further improve their effectiveness.
(a) Enhance the capacity of the government agencies in the ESCWA Member States in the compilation,dissemination and analysis of data on FDI through implementing international methodological standards, so that these countries will be able independently to maintain quality and accurate databases;