For 35 years the enforcers have been evaluated ruthlessly by their superiors for their fulfilment of quantifiable targets, such as achieving a certain number of sterilisations and, most importantly, ensuring that no parents exceed their quota of offspring.
Research has long linked excessive time spent sitting to increased risk of morbidity or premature death but the advice, co-commissioned by Public Health England and published on Monday, represents the first time British workers have been provided with quantifiable targets for getting out of their seats.
Each goal will be met by reaching a set of quantifiable targets beneath the goal such as halving the number of people living on less than a dollar a day, improving the lives of slum-dwellers, or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
However, these objectives are rarely reflected in quantifiable targets, and there is still little focus on monitoring performance against them.
There is considerable variance in the measurement of social entrepreneurship having measurements range from qualitative assessments such as the nature of innovation, the fit of opportunity with the community's objectives, and the implementation strategies to the more easily quantifiable targets like the total contribution and the size of donation.
The paper concludes that the absence of mandatory quantifiable targets and deadlines and a reliance on both cross-sectoral and multi-level relationships are likely to weaken the ability of the action plan's fundamental objective of decoupling economic growth from resource use.
I was pleased to see the inclusion of specific, quantifiable targets for health that will hold us all accountable in our efforts.
She emphasized the importance of achieving the Millennium Development Goals as quantifiable targets that address issues such as poverty, education and gender equality.
Echoing the approach taken at the World Summit for Children, the Millennium Summit adopted a series of time-bound, quantifiable targets: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The step will help contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the quantifiable targets to address issues such as poverty, health and environmental sustainability.
