Mainstreaming Responses to Climatic Variability & Change While Improving
Results-Based Management
The Fifth GEF Biennial International Waters Conference
Cairns, Australia
26-29 October 2009
Log frames and indicators for Result Based
Management
UNEP Experience
Results-Based Management Session – Wed. 28 October
Isabelle Van der Beck
Planning and Managing for
Impact – RBM
 UNEP recognized the need to move from an “
approvals” culture to an “impact” culture to
boost the overall impact of UNEP’s work
 Impact and quality of project content are
known to be intimately related to project
design
Planning and Managing for
Impact – RBM
 “Impact: The effect of the project on its
wider environment, and its contribution to the
wider sectoral objectives summarised in the
project’s logical/RB framework and on the
achievement of wider policy and programmatic
objectives.” EU Project Cycle Management
manual, 2001.
Planning and Managing for
Impact – RBM
 Attributing impacts to project actions is a difficult
exercise
 It is important to determine how successful we have
been in achieving the objective of our project
 Importance of robust logframes as an M&E
tool/system -- Audit trail - What should we be monitoring and evaluating? The
Answer is INDICATORS!!!!
Planning and Managing for
Impact – RBM
 Indicators are markers of change
 Indicators support the efficacy of the result based
management process from planning to implementation,
to monitoring, reporting and evaluation
 Indicators only indicate
 To demonstrate change over time, one needs to know
the situation before action = BASELINE + the
situation expected at the end of the action =
TARGET
Planning and Managing for
Impact – RBM
 Robust intervention logic
 A suite of SMART indicators with hard and convincing
data
 A baseline as a snapshot at the beginning of the
project against which comparison can be made
 Targets as expected situation at the end of the
project
LOGFRAME – INDICATORS – BASELINE - TARGETS
Objectively verifiable indicators
Project Strategy
Goal
Objective: Improved water
resources management and
water use efficiency in
Pacific Island Countries in
order to balance overuse and
conflicting uses of scarce
freshwater resources through
policy and legislative reform
and implementation of
applicable and effective
Integrated Water Resources
Management (IWRM) and
Water Use Efficiency (WUE)
plans
To contribute to sustainable development in the Region through improvements in water resource and environmental
management.
Baseline
Target
Indicator
Sources of
Risks and
verification
Assumptions
1.1 Overarching
improvement in water
resource management,
quality and availability
through appropriate
national Demonstration
Project execution and
concurrent reforms in
policy, legislation and
institutional arrangements
leading to global
environmental benefits [P]
1.2 Actual change in
institutional and societal
behaviour [P]
1.1 Fragmented
institutional
responsibilities, weak
policies, communication
& coordination resulting
in fragile or non-existent
IWRM approaches in
place
1.2 Poor and
inconsistent data
collection for
monitoring and
inadequate action and
investment and change
based on monitoring
information
1.1 - 14 National IWRM and
Water Use Efficiency Strategies
in place, with institutional
ownership secured with 20%
increase in national budget
allocations by month 42 [P]
Demonstration
Project Annual
Reporting
National IWRM
Plans and Water
Use Efficiency
Strategies with
1.2 Best IWRM and WUE
appropriate budget
approaches mainstreamed into
allocations in
national and regional planning
place
frameworks by end of project
Indicator
facilitated by national IWRM
Framework
APEX bodies, Project Steering
mechanism
Committee, Pacific Partnership, National
and PCU by month 60 [P]
Government
feedback on
1.3 Environmental stress
institutional
reduction in 14 Pacific SIDS:
changes
30% increase in forest area for
Pacific
~8,000 ha of land, 35% reduction Partnership, RAP,
in sewage pollution over
, NAP, NSDSs,
eq.~40,000 ha area leading to
and MDG
reduction in eutrophication for 4 reporting
coastal receiving waters sites,
and 35% reduction in water
leakage for systems supplying
~85,000 people by end of project,
leading to av. 30% increase in
population with access to safe
water supply and sanitation for 6
sites (based on targets under
Component 1) [SR]
Strong and highlevel government
commitment is
sustained and
willing to make
change – adequate
understanding and
political will
Able to monitor
and update
baseline
information and
action taken ion
findings and
results
Inclusive
stakeholder
involvement in the
IWRM
consultation
process
THANK YOU