Transcript Livia Bizikova and Laszlo Pinter [email protected] Why measure?  To provide feedback on system behaviour and policy performance  To improve chances of successful.

Livia Bizikova and Laszlo Pinter
[email protected]
Why measure?
 To provide feedback on system behaviour and policy
performance
 To improve chances of successful adaptation
 To ensure movement toward common goals
 To improve implementation
 To increase accountability
Indicators and SD
 Since 1990s, SD creates opportunity and
challenges for ‘constructive ambiguity’
 Recognizing the links between environmental
conditions and human activities
 Highlighting the need for long-term perspectives
 Considering equity both within and between
generations
 Engaging the participation of all sectors of society
in the decision-making process
Steps in the integrated reporting
processes
Australia Department
of the Environment,
Sport and Territories,
1994)
Indicators should…
 Be developed within an accepted conceptual
framework
 Be clearly defined and easy to understand
 Be subject to aggregation
 Be objective
 Have reasonable data requirements
 Be relevant to users
 Be limited in number
 Reflect causes, process or results
(World Bank, 1997)
Examples of indicator system
development
The partnerships in GEO accomplish the
following:
 Ensure regional priorities and perceptions are
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reflected;
Provide a mechanism to aggregate information across
scale to the global level;
Facilitate access to data and information;
Increase policy relevance of the analysis;
Help raise the profile of critical issues and put
emerging issues on the agenda;
Contribute to improved policy coordination; and
Provide a quality-control mechanism.
Lessons from GEO for national
and regional assessment
 Assessment and reporting concepts and strategies
 Stakeholders’ involvement in assessment and
reporting
 Report structure
 Organization of reporting process
 Communication of results
Regional indicator system for the area
round Lake Balaton (Hungary)
Exposure unit
Variability and
change of the
environment
Ecosystem
Management and
coordination of
adaptation
and responses
Variability and
change of the
human system
Human system
Information
Influence
External response
and adaptation
mechanisms
Process / content integration
Conceptual framework, architecture
Scoping
Priority issues and core indicators
Monitoring system, evaluation reports
Monitoring, evaluation, learning
Implementation measures, projects
Indicator system development
ENGAGEMENT
&
CAPACITY
DEVELOPMENT
Implementation
Data, mapserver, models, analytic tools
Data collection and processing
Scenarios, targets, action-plans
Integrated assessment report
Scenario development and policy
planning
Integrated assessment of trends
and vulnerabilities
Specific adaptation measures
Development of adaptation
options
Indicator analysis
 System of 40 (at the beginning) down to 32 indicators
 Indicators were analyzed based on a common template
using the following questions:
 How is this indicator defined?
 What is happening in the region?
 How is society responding?
 What could be anticipated in the future?
 “Failure of the week” – reporting on process
Developing a Sustainability Indicators
System to Measure the Well-being of
Winnipeg’s First Nations Community
Step in the system development
Well-being of the community
Domains of Well-being and Issues
Impacting Well-being
Indicators are helpful:
 To carry out a more profound analysis of the socio-
economic conditions on the ground;
 To shift from “top-down” governance towards a
regional/local policy and decision-making;
 To promote task orientation, with clear and enforced
definition of responsibilities for actors involved in practical
application of the decisions;
 To link the indicator system with development measures’
implementation to monitor the induced changes and
impacts
Challenges
 Data collection (numerous data-holders with diverse
format ) seems to be a challenge
 Accountability to the stakeholders – regular
communication
 Thinking out of the box – getting to the different path then
BAU
 Monitoring issues that may not be significant currently