GEF-DRP Indicators fase I en II

Looptijd:
1 december 2003 – 1 february 2006

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 and Sustainable Use of the Danube River Basin. Support is provided in the frame of the regional Danube Project (DRP). 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-DRP 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. 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.
At the same time an indicator system is under development now within DG-Environment (DG-ENV) and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) of the European Commission to comply with the reporting requirements of the new EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). According the latest information, DG-ENV will use the Driving Force-Pressure-Status-Impact-Response cycle as the concept for indicator development.

This report describes the concept of 2 indicator system for GEF and DG-ENV/WFD and presents a number of examples of individual indicators and methodologies for quantification and assessments, including aggregation techniques for clusters of indicators.
For the GEF M & E, 3 categories process indicators were defined on basis of the 4 Objectives, as described in the Logical Framework Matrix in the project document of the DRP. Individual process indicators proposed, are directly related to the outputs and outcomes of the DRP also formulated in the Logical Framework Matrix. Methodologies for quantification and aggregation are recommended. There are 4 categories of stress reduction indicators proposed and 22 individual indicators. Similarly there are 4 categories of state indicators proposed and 18 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 20 individual stress reduction and state indicators. A number of examples are presented together with quantification and presentation techniques.

In the DPSIR concept of DG-ENV/EEA, the state and response indicators are identical to the state and stress reduction indicators in the GEF methodology. There are 6 categories of driving force indicators proposed and 19 individual indicators of which 11 at the core list. These indicators are based on information which is collected by national governments and /or Eurostat and should not require any activities with regard to raw data collection by the ICPDR. There are 4 categories of pressure indicators proposed and 12 individual indicators of which 10 at the core list. There are 4 categories of impact indicators proposed and 7 individual indicators of which 4 at the core list. These indicators are based on information which is collected by the ICPDR through the TNMN and EMIS.

For both systems, 1996 is recommended to be used as the baseline, since the database of the ICPDR is considered reliable and complete since that year.