Indicatoren GEF Black Sea

Looptijd:
1 december 2003 – 1 mei 2004

Betrokken medewerkers:
dr. J. Dogterom, drs. J.P.E. van Leeuwen

The United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF) is the main international donor to support implementation of the Convention for the Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution (Bucharest Convention). Support is provided in the frame of the Black Sea Ecosystem Recovery Project (BSERP). The Council of the GEF wants to be informed on an annual basis by all projects, financed by GEF, on the performance of the projects. The Council considers Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) of project outputs and outcomes an indispensable tool for project management. It should serve both as a corrective function during project implementation and as a guide to structure future projects more effectively. Actually, all GEF projects must include M & E provisions. In this context, the GEF-BSERP has developed a system of indicators as the basis for reporting to the GEF Council. This indicator system allows to monitor and evaluate project performance and complies with the reporting requirements of the GEF Council. This report describes the concept of the indicator system and presents a number of examples of individual indicators and methodologies for quantification and assessments, including aggregation techniques for clusters of indicators.

The GEF M & E unit has defined the types of indicators to be applied: process indicators, stress response indicators and state indicators. The GEF reporting requirements and these definitions were used for the development of the indicator system. A comparison is presented with the concept of the indicator system as is under development now within DG-Environment and the European Environmental Agency of the European Commission to comply with the reporting requirements of the new EU Water Framework Directive.

Categories of process indicators were defined on basis of the 5 Objectives, as described in the Logical Framework Matrix in the project document of the BSERP. Individual process indicators proposed, are directly related to the outputs and outcomes of the BSERP also formulated in the Logical Framework Matrix. Methodologies for quantification and aggregation are recommended. There are 4 categories of stress reduction indicators proposed and 24 individual indicators. Similarly there are 5 categories of state indicators proposed and 24 individual indicators. These are considered long lists. Selection of a core list of individual indicators was done on basis of 3 selection criteria which resulted in a core list of 28 individual stress reduction and state indicators. A number of examples are presented together with quantification and presentation techniques. It is recommended to use the starting date of the BSERP in 2001 as the baseline.