The document discusses performance indicators for international waters programs. It outlines four levels of indicators: coverage, process, stress reduction, and environmental status. Implementation indicators measure project progress, while impact indicators measure actual effects. Baselines are important for measuring degree of change. Coverage indicators reflect program scope. Process indicators measure government actions and quality. Stress reduction indicators track reductions in threatening human activities. Environmental status indicators are difficult to apply consistently across projects. Data on indicators can be aggregated and compared in various ways.

1. Performance Indicators for
International Waters Programs
2nd
GEF International Waters
Conference
Dalian, China

2. The Need for Program
Performance Indicators
 To assess accurately what has
been accomplished in IW projects
 To help program future projects

3. Four Levels of Indicators
 Coverage indicators
 Process indicators
 Stress reduction indicators
 Environmental status indicators

4. 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

5. The Importance of the Baseline
Baseline=the situation that exists at the
beginning of the project
Makes it possible to measure degree of
change in connection with the project

6. Coverage Indicators
measure programs’ scope in relation
to the problem worldwide
 reflect the geographic or thematic
distribution of projects

7. Examples of Coverage
Indicators
Proportion of world’s GEF-eligible
Large Marine Ecosystems in which GEF
has catalyzed management frameworks
Distribution of projects in each OP by
geographical region

8. Process Indicators
 Measure the effectiveness of government
actions catalyzed by GEF projects
Measure the quality of GEF-supported
processes

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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?

12. 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?

13. 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

14. 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

15. Environmental Status Indicators
Waterbodies not subject to “programmatic
approach” are unlikely to show measurable
change in environmental status
Projects in different waterbodies won’t
choose the same targets for improvement
Therefore no common environmental status
indicators are proposed

16. 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