Component : Policy and Strategy

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INDICATORS SYSTEM PRESENTATION

• Mr. Martin Petrtýl,
• Twinning Project Short Term Expert (STE)
• Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic
• Sinaia, Romania, 6-7 February 2007

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INDICATORS SYSTEM PRESENTATION

• Warm up questions
• Who are the final beneficiaries?
• Municipalities, Regions, Districts, Associations
  of municipalities in a region, other public and
  even private bodies (if their work is publicly
  profitable)
• Who are the real final beneficiaries?
• All of you
• Citizens of relevant project/programme area
• Romania, Europe, World
• Do not be afraid to promote your own opinion
• Do not be afraid to justify your opinion as well

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Therefore

• Keep your eyes wide open, do not focus on the
  methodology itself
• Narrow view makes you blind and deaf and it will
  sooner or later beat you as a boomerang
• Prepare your activities properly now than to
  repair later with difficulties (measure twice,
  cut once)
• Keep in mind that you do it for everybody, not
  for environment itself it doesnt exist in fact
• Even you may become a victim of your bad planning

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INDICATORS

• What are they?
• Measurable reality
• It may be measured
• Physically (m, km, m2, m3, litres, kg etc.)
• Logically (yes/no, done/not done)
• Economically (, RON)
• Psychically (like/dislike, appreciate/not
  appreciate) but these are the least recommended
• Combination of the above mentioned ways (km/, km
  done/km not done, /capita/ of dis/likes etc.)
• What is measurable it is then more easily
  controllable

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INDICATORS

• When you plan an action for some purpose, you
  want to be sure that the purpose of the action is
  fulfilled. Any action causes something (reaction)
• This something should be measurable in at least
  one way, but mostly in many ways.
• Changes thanks to your action should be provable
  by measured indicators

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Example Austrian project

• Vienna River Liesingbach project
• Revitalisation of municipal river from concrete
  to living river
• http//www.life-liesingbach.at/
• What was used as indicators?
• Ecological Number and quantity of species
• macrozoobenthos, ciliates, plants, fish, insects
  (beetles, dragonflies), birds, mammals
• (measures/monitoring) 6 sample locations, 3 times
  per year for 3 years
• before, during and after taking measures
• Construction progress
• (measures/construction progress) 4 separate areas
  controlled periodically
• In situ (physical) control made by a responsible
  part (final beneficiary)

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EXAMPLE Czech Project 1

• Vsetínsko Clean River Becva
• Final Beneficiary Association of Vsetínsko
  municipalities, covers 3 minor areas
• Total sum of expenses
• Public costs 46,218,949
• ISPA support 70 32,353,264
• General goal(s)
• Fulfil 3 directives as Water Framework Directive
  etc.
• Real goal(s)
• Avoid paying penalties for breaching the EU
  Directives on waters
• Provide better public service to inhabitants of
  the region regarding water supply, canalization a
  waste water treatment

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Project Covered Area
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EXAMPLE Czech Project 3

• Building of
• 2 new waste water treatments for 8600 eq.
  citizens
• 136 796 metres of new canalization
• 16 pumping stations
• 10 rain retention reservoirs
• Reconstructing of
• 5 waste water treatments for 95 450 eq. citizens
• 6 160 metres of canalization

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EXAMPLE Czech Project 4

• Goals and indicators are very close to each other
• Goal increase the percentage of the population
  connected to sewage from the current 54 to 80
  by 2005
• Indicator increase of / number of population
  connected to drinking water supply and sewage
  system in (units and number)

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PURPOSE OF INDICATORS

• What is the purpose of indicators?
• understand the changes you wanted to make
• Better
• Easier
• Give a measurable assurance that the
  projects/actions/measures really change as you
  wished to be changed
• If the indicators dont have such a purpose?
• They are meaningless, they dont help you

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EXAMPLE Czech Project 5

• Relevant websites (in Czech)
• http//www.mestovsetin.cz/html/mikroCiBe.htm
• Financing Memorandum on ISPA support (July 2003)
• http//www.podnikame.cz/smlouvy04/index.php3?coss
  04106
• Basic information on the volume of the project,
  its division into 3 geographic parts etc.
  (March 2005)
• http//www.sfzp.cz/cs/fond-soudrznosti/aktuality/2
  069-cista-reka-becva.html
• Coming closure of the project (June 2006)
• http//www.vsetin.cz/vismo/dokumenty2.asp?u18676
  id_org18676id359920p10p2p3

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FINDING INDICATORS

• To find indicators ask yourself (yourselves)
• What shall it cause (IMPACT) ? can I measure
  that impact?
• What else it may cause?
• Positive causes ()
• Negative causes (-)
• Therefore do not forget to think of even negative
  effects of the action (EIA)
• Can I measure these causes?
• Almost everything is somehow measurable it is
  rather a matter of price (for monitoring)
• There are always some already generally used
  indicators for generally solved problems,
  especially in the environmental area (CHCE TO
  ODKAZY!)
• What will be caused if the action wouldnt be
  done?
• Positive causes ()
• Negative causes (-)

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GROUPS OF INDICATORS 1

• There are often sets of similar actions done for
  the similar purpose
• These may be measured separately by different
  special indicators
• Why to have them?
• they may generally tell you, what you achieved by
  those actions
• some synergic effects may be caused, too
• What is common for them?
• Find out the best common indicator(s), which
  would prove you, that those actions together are
  improving (or worsening) something

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GROUPS OF INDICATORS 2

• Create a table of projects like this

Why No?
How much similar?
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GROUPS OF INDICATORS 3

• Think of field(s) the project(s) is (are)
  involved
• Water
• Drinking water supply
• Water quality
• 1st/2nd/?3rd/?4th class (indicator)
• Water quantity
• Water rate m3/ (indicator)
• m3/capita (indicator)

• Waste water
• Water quality
• Level of cleaning (indicator)
• Waste water rate m3/ (indicator)
• Water quantity
• Air
• Waste
• Biodiversity
• Else?

Project/programme/plan doesnt have to be
involved just in one field but mostly one/some
of the fields is/are the most important Consolidat
ion of data will explain Mr. Jäger
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INDICATORS 2 major types

• There are 2 major types of indicators for
  Environmental sector
• Economic
• money spent, work time spent, No. papers,
  reports, presentations, profit/loss, number of
  employees, customers, products sold, km built,
  No/Ha of trees seeded, etc.
• BTW!!! Money is probably the best
  indicator/criterion/benchmark
• BUT! Keep in mind - Money is only means, it
  should not be a goal
• Have you seen Al Gores Incovenient Truth?
• Environmental/Ecological
• concentrations of X, Y in water, soil, air,
  number of species, population of certain species,
  No. of parks, No. trees in city per capita, No.
  of cars in the city etc.

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INDICATORS other types

• There are also others, for example
• Health related
• (number) of diseases caused by polluted air,
  water, ground
• Business related
• land price, growth of investments, tourism growth
  
• Socially related
• immigration growth,

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EXAMPLE Environmental education

• Education of teachers in order to promote
  environmentally friendly approaches between their
  school pupils
• Indicators
• number of teachers educated
• number of pupils educated later on
• Common indicator at higher level?
• of environmentally educated population
• At even higher level
• Increased public support for environmental
  projects
• of public investment support to environmental
  actions
• of public donations to NGOs for environmental
  issues (???)
• These indicators have to be invented by you,
  others may look at them and tell you if they look
  fine, possibly suggest some new ones.
• Nobody else than you cannot validate them
  (indicators)

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INDICATORS

• QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?

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THANK YOU

• FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND COOPERATION!
• HAVE A NICE DAY!
• Martin Petrtýl, STE
• Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic
• Prague, The Czech Republic
• www.env.cz
• Tel Office 420 - 267 122 577
• Mobile [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mails Office martin_petrtyl_at_env.cz
• Private petrtyl_at_volny.cz