Performance Indicators for International Waters Programs

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Performance Indicators for International Waters
Programs

• 2nd GEF International Waters Conference
• Dalian, China

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The Need for Program Performance Indicators

• To assess accurately what has been accomplished
  in IW projects
• To help program future projects

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Four Levels of Indicators

• Coverage indicators
• Process indicators
• Stress reduction indicators
• Environmental status indicators

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Implementation Indicators vs.Impact Indicators

• Implementation indicators measure progress in
  accomplishing project tasks and delivering
  outputs
• Impact indicators measure the actual effect of
  those project outputs and the quality or project
  processes

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The Importance of the Baseline

• Baselinethe situation that exists at the
  beginning of the project
• Makes it possible to measure degree of change in
  connection with the project

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Coverage Indicators

• measure programs scope in relation
• to the problem worldwide
• reflect the geographic or thematic
• distribution of projects

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Examples of Coverage Indicators

• Proportion of worlds GEF-eligible Large Marine
  Ecosystems in which GEF has catalyzed management
  frameworks
• Distribution of projects in each OP by
  geographical region

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Process Indicators

• Measure the effectiveness of government actions
  catalyzed by GEF projects
• Measure the quality of GEF-supported processes

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Three Types of Process Indicators

• Joint Process Indicators measure process quality
  and results of intergovernmental actions
• Single-country Process Indicators measure
  process quality and results of actions by
  individual participating country
• Demonstration Activity Indicators measure success
  in achieving replication.

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Using Scalar Indictors for Process and Results

• Possible outcomes are ranked in ascending order
  of effectiveness
• Actual outcomes are assessed on the basis of each
  relevant scale

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How Scalar Indicators Measure Process Quality

• Government Involvement How much endorsement,
  staff resources, budget lines?
• Stakeholder Participation Has there been
  stakeholder analysis, participation plan,
  stakeholder satisfaction?
• Sound Information Have mechanisms been
  established for access to best available
  information?

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How Scalar Indicators Measure Process Results

• TDAs How specific is analysis of causes and
  options for addressing them?
• SAPs How far do they go in providing
  quantitative targets and timetables?
• Joint Institutional Arrangements How much
  authority, influence and staffing?
• Inter-ministerial Committees How specific are
  commitments to reform?

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Stress Reduction Indicators

• Measure the degree to which threatening human
  activities have been reduced
• Should be linked to environmental degradation
  whenever possible
• May use progress in government programs that
  reduce harmful behavior as a proxy

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How Stress Reduction Indicators Are Used

• No specific stress reduction indicators are
  prescribed
• Progress in monitoring and reporting on selected
  indicators of stresses or proxies is tracked
  where relevant
• Degree of change from baseline in selected
  indicators of stresses or proxies is measured
  where relevant

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Environmental Status Indicators

• Waterbodies not subject to programmatic
  approach are unlikely to show measurable change
  in environmental status
• Projects in different waterbodies wont choose
  the same targets for improvement
• Therefore no common environmental status
  indicators are proposed

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Ways of Presenting Process and Stress Reduction
Indicator Data

• Aggregating project data on results for all
  waterbodies in each OP
• Comparing data on results for all waterbodies in
  each OP
• Aggregating data on results for all waterbodies
  in the same ecosystem in each OP
• Comparing data on results for all waterbodies in
  the same ecosystem in each OP

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• By October 15, 2002