Examples of using Proxy indicator in English and their translations into Arabic
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(e) Ways to obtain better disaggregation of proxy indicators;
Proxy indicators, for example, using enforcement as a measurement for a decrease in the resources threat;
It therefore correlatescharacteristics of poverty which could potentially serve as proxy indicators.
In many cases, proxy indicators will have to be used, and in others descriptive situations will have to be used.
Acceptance and implementation rates are the best proxy indicators for the impact of the recommendations.
Proxy indicators may also provide more objective information, as compared to interviews and experts ' surveys;
One way to overcome this difficulty would be to apply proxy indicators such as those measuring adaptive capacity.
Proxy indicator of women ' s engagement in conflict prevention, assuming importance of role of regional organizations in preventive diplomacy.
Increases in the use of standardized agreements will be monitored as a proxy indicator for transaction costs and flexibility of contributions.
Proxy indicator of physical security in a conflict setting, where small arms and light weapons can proliferate and are often used to threaten women.
Indicates achievement of a goal in its own right and is a proxy indicator of representation of gender equality issues in national decision-making.
A proposed proxy indicator is the estimated number of youth refugees by country of origin, which provides insight into the number of young refugees.
Mr. Godert van Lynden talked on the Global Assessment of Land Productivity(GLADA),an innovative initiative that uses biomass change as a proxy indicator for land productivity.
One way forward is to explore proxy indicators based on big data which could provide information more frequently compared with surveys.
In its place, UNFPA has explored the feasibility of including either an explicit income poverty indicator, or an indicator of income inequality or a proxy indicator of poverty.
A" HIV prevalence among population aged15 to 24 years" was chosen as a proxy indicator for the incidence rate when the indicators for the Millennium Declaration were developed.
However, significant rural/urban disparities persist and overall progress is likely overestimated, since the safety,reliability and sustainability dimensions are not reflected in the proxy indicator.
These tasks entail the use of at least two sets of proxy indicators(expenditure as a share of GDP on research and development(R & D) and the proportion of researchers and technicians in R & D).
It aims specifically to help strengthen the capacity of countries to assess andmonitor forest degradation by identifying specific parameters and/or proxy indicators of forest degradation and degraded forests and best practices for assessing these.
The Committee also considered a proxy indicator, namely, the percentage of births attended by skilled health personnel, but noted that that indicator would cover only a single determinant of maternal mortality.
As the core indicator report discusses, births not attended by a skilled healthworker serve as an important proxy indicator for maternal mortality and also line-up well with MDG 5-- Improve Maternal Health.
As a proxy indicator for programme monitoring, the average number of days spent on official in-country travel by UNICEF Professional staff in country offices sustained its increase from 11 days in 2002 to 23 days in 2003 and 2004.
The World Food Programme(WFP) worked in close liaison with the Government on the issue of rising global food prices and monitored food prices andmarket availability in the country, as a proxy indicator of food availability at the household level.
Instead, researchers have estimated its importance by using proxy indicators, such as the ratio of deposits to money supply, the ratio of bank credit to the private sector to GDP, as well as anecdotal evidence.
As a follow-up to previous work on harmonizing forest definitions and streamlining forest-related reporting, CPF undertook a new jointinitiative to identify specific parameters and/or proxy indicators of forest degradation and degraded forests, as well as assessment and monitoring methods.
Although an imperfect proxy indicator to test the level of coordination and cooperation(as discussions do not have to result in joint action but could have resulted in one organization deciding, without a mutual agreement, to work in another selected area), the results of the mapping show that 14 per cent of projects undertaken in the last five years were jointly programmed with other UN-Oceans members(see figure 7 below).
There are areas in which significant progress has been made and indicators point to a steady though slow improvement in the ratio of girls to boys at all levels of education, the ratio of literate females to males,share of women in urban employment(as proxy indicator for share of women in wage employment in non-agricultural sector) has improved marginally and improvement in participation of women in national decision making process.
During the discussion with OIOS, the Committee was informed that the Inspection and Evaluation Division would prepare a capacity gap analysis, once it completed the improvements it was making to its risk assessment process; and that the resource requirement for the Inspection and Evaluation Division for the 2013/14 period was based on the priorrisk assessment that was done using proxy indicators such as budget size, complexity of coordination needs, and gender balance, among others.
After the inclusion in 2011 of an indicator on intimate partner violence in the UNAIDS guidelines for reporting progress on the global AIDS response, 50 of 186 countries reported data on this indicator in 2013 national reports.Given that the indicator represents a proxy indicator for gender inequality, it would be important to see more countries reporting data on this indicator in order to support better monitoring.
