Development and application of indicators and performance measures Perspectives and experiences

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Development and application of indicatorsand
performance measuresPerspectives and
experiences

• Livia Bizikova and Laszlo Pinter
• lbizikova_at_iisd.ca

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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

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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

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Steps in the integrated reporting processes
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Australia Department of the Environment, Sport
and Territories, 1994)
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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)

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Examples of indicator system development
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The partnerships in GEO accomplish the following

• Ensure regional priorities and perceptions are
  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.

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Lessons from GEO for nationaland regional
assessment

• Assessment and reporting concepts and strategies
• Stakeholders involvement in assessment and
  reporting
• Report structure
• Organization of reporting process
• Communication of results

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• Regional indicator system for the area round Lake
  Balaton (Hungary)

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Exposure unit
Variability and change of the environment
Ecosystem
Management and coordination of adaptation and
responses
External response and adaptation mechanisms
Variability and change of the human system
Human system
Information
Influence
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Process / content integration
Conceptual framework, architecture
Scoping
Priority issues and core indicators
Monitoring system, evaluation reports
Indicator system development
Monitoring, evaluation, learning
Implementation measures, projects
Data, mapserver, models, analytic tools
ENGAGEMENT CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
Data collection and processing
Implementation
Integrated assessment report
Scenarios, targets, action-plans
Integrated assessment of trends and
vulnerabilities
Scenario development and policy planning
Specific adaptation measures
Development of adaptation options
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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

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• Developing a Sustainability Indicators System to
  Measure the Well-being of Winnipegs First
  Nations Community

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Step in the system development
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Well-being of the community
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Domains of Well-being and Issues Impacting
Well-being
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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

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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