Maintaining standards: promoting equality

Promoting Gender Equality through Labor Standards and Living Wages: An Exploration of the Issues

Dynamically Maintaining Standards Using Incentives

Standards have had much importance in different fields of research in order to assure a certain quality of service in bilateral contracts. More specifically, in multi-agent systems performance standards may be used in order to articulate contracts among partners in environments dealing with uncertainty. However, little effort has been made on how to ensure standards compliance over time. In thi...

Promoting scientific standards.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 327 1 JANUARY 2010 7 COVER Crystal structure of a molybdenum oxide nanowheel, 2.6 nanometers in diameter, around a smaller molybdenum oxide cluster. Miras et al. (page 72; related Perspective page 38) used a controlled-flow reactor to show that the central core serves as a transient template for the self-assembly of the nanowheel and is ultimately ejected to yield...

Effective Strategies for Promoting Gender Equality

This tipsheet summarises strategies which have worked in practice, based on findings from a review of 85 evaluations undertaken by bilateral and multilateral agencies from 1999 to 2002. There was a great deal of consistency in evaluation reports about the most effective strategies for addressing gender equality issues, regardless of the type of assistance, the donor agency, the partner country ...

Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

indicators only partially capture the elements of gender equality, the chapter introduces fi ve complementary indicators that provide a more complete and nuanced description of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The indicators are measurable, actionable, and parsimonious; three of the fi ve build on existing measures of other MDGs, so the data requirements for monitoring them are not oner...