In some cases, States are obliged to be consistent in defining benchmark ages — such as the age for admission into employment and completion of compulsory education; but in other cases the Convention is unequivocal in setting an upper limit — such as prohibiting life imprisonment or capital punishment for those under 18 years of age.
Fourth, Israel is pushing the EU-3 to define benchmarks that would signal a failure of the process, and to identify the concrete consequences of such failure.
Earnouts are relatively uncommon largely because they are rooted in disagreement: Given the complexity of verifying whether defined benchmarks have been achieved and given the risk that the bidder behaves opportunistically to reduce the contingent payment (for example, by reducing the effort put into the acquired company, or by underestimating the reported results), litigation is quite frequent.
Traditional funds have more tightly defined benchmarks and boundaries.
Here sub-contractors could be equipped with portable enrollment kits that provide easy to use biometric identification services to a vast network of sub-contractors.16 Clearly, this kind of arrangement also needs to set appropriate incentives to maximize enrollment and define benchmarks to assess the performance of the sub-contractors.
Move the levers, let free markets yield optimal outcomes, develop models, define benchmarks, utilize the right metrics and make efficient use of capital.
If a staff member is unable to reach their defined benchmarks with a commitment to best practices it is certainly not in our best interest to keep the person on, as difficult a decision that may be.
Tracking trends in legislation and new programs -- or cuts to programs -- is also part of the work, as is presenting ratings on which states meet NIEER's defined benchmarks for quality.
Results from this study along with defined benchmarks could contribute to the WHO SARA survey as well as the DHS survey to provide countrywide information and thus aid the completion of a global database of surgical capacity.
While the policies and system responses in terms of implementation have been tailored to country and regional contexts, there are commonalities in the policy approach (e.g. defined benchmarks for wait times from surgical consultation to surgery date) and in aspects of restructuring of care provision.
