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Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives: A Global Directory of Comprehensive Indicator Systems L ászló Pintér, IISD Henning Hansen, IFEH Presented at the OECD World Forum: Statistics, Knowledge, Policy June 29, 2007 Istanbul, Turkey. Overview.

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  1. Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives:A Global Directory of Comprehensive Indicator SystemsLászló Pintér, IISDHenning Hansen, IFEHPresented at the OECD World Forum: Statistics, Knowledge, PolicyJune 29, 2007Istanbul, Turkey

  2. Overview • Context: Global and local importance of comprehensive indicator systems • Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives • Examples of comprehensive indicator systems across nations, scales and sectors • Conclusions

  3. Context • Call for the development of SD indicator systems by Brundtland and Ch. 40 of Agenda 21 • Success: A large and growing number of measurement initiatives, across scales, sectors, themes etc. • Challenges • Fundamental methodological questions – relationship of economic valuation (full cost accounting, green GDP) vs. non-economic indicators • A variety of conceptual frameworks • Indicator selection methods, role of experts vs. stakeholders • Indicator analysis and interpretation • Data access and availability • Use of indicators in strategic policy processes etc.etc. • Need for cross-fertilization, co-learning, coordination, leadership

  4. Global and local importance of comprehensive indicator systems What defines comprehensive indicator systems • Structure of indicator model (PSR – DPSIR – other) • Relevance in terms of: • Headline issues • Target groups for the information • Geographic scope • How to influence the indicator values • Public involvement • Public access to information and supporting dataReliable frequency of updating information

  5. Global and local importance of comprehensive indicator systems What defines the comprehensive indicator • From the reading of the indicator values over time you should be able to definitively and objectively conclude whether the changes describe a positive or negative development. • The indicator shall be based upon objective data measurements, where the specific data leaves no room for interpretation besides the monitoring inaccuracy. • The indicator must be easy to comprehend and there has to be a recognized causal link between the used data that the indicator is based upon and the development one wishes to describe. • The indicator is closely linked to planned targets

  6. Global and local importance of comprehensive indicator systems How to construct comprehensive indicator systems By adopting best practice through mechanisms as the Compendium on Sustainability Indicator Initiatives By involvement of responsible decisions makers By involvement of the public – and stakeholders By keeping the process open By defining the purpose and scope with the initiative

  7. Global and local importance of comprehensive indicator systems Why are comprehensive indicator systems important If you don’t know where your are located and where you are coming from you won’t be able to define where you are heading and you won’t be able to decide whether you are moving in the right or wrong direction! Only by the use of a comprehensive indicator system you will be able to navigate.

  8. Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives • Global directory of SD indicator initiatives • By practitioners for practitioners • Collaborative • Free access • Long-term • Embraces diversity of methods and terminology, as long as whole-system approach is followed

  9. Compendium goals • Improve communication, promote the sharing of experiences, methods and approaches; • Facilitate harmonization of indicator development approaches and indicator sets; • Help avoid duplication, facilitate the integration of monitoring, data analysis and reporting activities; • Provide access to a pool of experts working on indicator development; • Help identify areas of future research where required; and • Provide access to products of indicator initiatives.

  10. Examples of Indicator Systems • The Changing California – Forest and Range Assessment, United States • State of the Environment Reporting, South Africa • Indicators for Integrated Assessment in the Lake Balaton Region, Hungary • Katrina Index, United States • Iniciativa Latinoamericana y Caribeña para el Desarrollo Sostenible (ILAC) • Environmental Indicators, Melbourne, Australia

  11. The Changing California – Forest and Range Assessment, United States

  12. State of the Environment Reporting, South Africa

  13. Indicators for Integrated Assessment in the Lake Balaton Region, Hungary

  14. Katrina Index, United States

  15. Iniciativa Latinoamericana y Caribeña para el Desarrollo Sostenible (ILAC) – Costa Rica http://www.odd.ucr.ac.cr/ilac

  16. Examples of Indicator SystemsEnvironmental Indicators, Metropolitan Melbourne, Australia http://www.aius.org.au/indicators

  17. Examples of Indicator SystemsEnvironmental Indicators, Metropolitan Melbourne, Australia http://www.aius.org.au/indicators

  18. Examples of Indicator SystemsEnvironmental Indicators, Metropolitan Melbourne, Australia http://www.aius.org.au/indicators

  19. Final messages • Need for continuing and periodic efforts to take stock of new directions and development of the indicator field, on multiple scales by making use of, among others, the Compendium • Continuing efforts to harmonize indicator initiatives, with emphasis on headline indicators • Need to undertake, support and learn from local indicator efforts, while strengthening their compatibility with higher scale indicator systems

  20. Final messages • Work on indicator systems should be coordinated with further development of the system of national accounts • Identification and support for general principles, such as the earlier developed Bellagio Principles, that provide broad methodological guidance in indicator selection and use • Take dialogue on measurement to the political level with a highlight on institutional, policy, capacity and resource implications

  21. Final messages The need for guidelines to be used by local/regional authorities in order to build up local reporting systems in order to monitor the performance of the community - in order to communicate this information to the community / public - in order to involve the public - and finally with the backup of the public to adopt the most adequate local policies.

  22. http://www.iisd.org/measure/compendiumhttp://www.ifeh.org/indicators/compendiumhttp://www.iisd.org/measure/compendiumhttp://www.ifeh.org/indicators/compendium Thank you for your attention.

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