The outcome of the review, expected in the autumn, will not result in recommendations for change as the OFT is positioning its work as a fact finding exercise.
Even though the United Nations team enjoys little more than moral authority — Mr. de Frouville was reluctant to even describe it as a "fact finding" mission — it came in for withering criticism in Pakistan's Parliament and some news media outlets, where right-wing politicians slammed it as a threat to national sovereignty.
As a matter of fact, finding a match between the social sustainability objectives and their corresponding indicators is a challenging task.
He recorded the purpose of the trip as "Speak to executives and fact finding".
In March of this year I went to Brazil on a fact finding mission as founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, to see first hand the impact the dams are having on local communities, indigenous peoples and the environment.
Both sets of hearings were billed as fact-finding exercises, but turned out to be poisonous displays of partisanship.
Aides said the commissioner's trips served as fact-finding missions that enabled her to study innovative transportation systems abroad and to share New York's practices with the world.
He took many overseas trips, billed as fact-finding tours with the goal of improving his foreign policy credentials.
In Oregon, where the gift laws were reformed in 2007 and again in 2009, the language of the law has become so specific in noting exemptions that it's easy to skirt: entertainment excursions can technically be billed as "fact-finding" missions, for example, which is acceptable under the law.
The manager must be ready to deal with regulations, manuals, policies and procedures and put just as much effort into fact finding and analysis as he or she would into bartering for one bottle of water in the dead, dry heat of summer.
