| O | |
| Objective | Output |
| Other substantive activities | Output category |
| Outcome | Output delivery |
| Outlier | |
Description of an overall desired achievement involving a process of change and aimed at meeting certain needs of identified end-users within a given period of time. A good objective meets the criteria of being impact oriented, measurable, time limited, specific and practical. The objective is set at the next higher level than the expected accomplishments.
See also: “Goal“, “Expected accomplishment”, “Logical framework”
An output category comprising, inter alia, fact-finding missions, human rights and humanitarian assessment and relief missions, promotion of legal instruments, seminars for outside users, recurrent and non-recurrent publications, electronic, audio and visual issuances, exhibits, guided tours, lectures; booklets, fact sheets, wall charts, information kits; press releases, press conferences; special events; technical material for outside users; substantive servicing of, including documentation for, inter-agency meetings.
See also: “Output”, “Output category”
In the United Nations Secretariat, “outcome” is used as a synonym of an accomplishment or a result.
See also: “Accomplishment”, “Expected accomplishment”, “Logical framework”, “Result”, “Results-based management (RBM)”
A subject or other unit of analysis that has extreme values. Usually outliers are excluded from statistical tabulations because they are considered unrepresentative or unreliable.
See also: “Data”
A final product or service delivered by a programme or project to end-users, such as reports, publications, servicing of meetings, training, advisory, editorial, translation or security services, which a programme is expected to produce in order to achieve its expected accomplishments and objectives. Outputs may be grouped into broader categories.
See also: “IMDIS”, “Logical framework”, “Additional output”, “Discretionary action”
Grouping of outputs, established at the planning stage, in the work programme of departments/offices. For example “Other substantive activities” or “Conference service, administration and oversight”
See also: “Conference services, administration, oversight”, “Expert groups, rapporteurs, depository services“, "Non-recurrent publication”, “Parliamentary documentation”, “Recurrent publication”, ”Other substantive activities”, “Carried forward”, “Reformulated”, “Postponed”, “Terminated”
An output is generally considered to have been delivered when the service is completed or when the planned product is made available to the intended end-users; e.g., in the case of a report or a technical publication, when it has been submitted to the General Assembly or relevant intergovernmental bodies or circulated to Member States or other primary users; in the case of a sales publication, when it is placed on sale.
See also: “Implementation rate”