Indicators Working Group
The document summarizes the objectives and activities of the OECD Water Governance Initiative Indicators Working Group at their 13th meeting. The working group aims to 1) facilitate uptake and use of water governance indicators, 2) learn from self-assessments, 3) propose a framework to measure impacts, and 4) facilitate dialogue on SDG reporting. An inventory of impact measurement frameworks found a variety of economic, social and environmental impacts measured but no comprehensive framework. The working group will develop a three-step process to link indicators to SDGs and impacts by connecting water governance aspects to specific impacts. An interactive session will provide feedback on proposed questions for 12 water governance principles.
Indicators Working Group
- 1. INDICATORS WORKING GROUP 13th Meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, 10 January 2020
- 2. 2019-2021 From Tools to Implementation OECD Indicator Framework & 11 pilots (2018) 2015-2018 From Vision to Action Achievements to date
- 3. Objectives of the Working Group #1 Facilitate the uptake and use #2 Learn from past and new self assessments #3 Propose a methodological framework for impact measurement #4 Facilitate dialogue on the MLG of SDGs reporting
- 4. Highlights from the Inventory • Select examples of impact measurement in the literature • Variety of impacts (economic, social, environmental) • No comprehensive measurement framework on impacts • Few data available • Main focus is on basin management and water services Step 1 • Inventory of existing frameworks & measurements Step 2 • Link indicators with SDGs and other impacts Step 3 • Develop questions and hypotheses to link aspects of water governance to specific impacts
- 5. Interactive, co-production session Not relevant, to be discarded Very useful, I agree Could be interesting, but needs some work 1. Feedback on the proposed questions for each of the 12 Principles 2. Suggestions / ideas / comments through the post-its
Editor's Notes
- #3: The next Programme of Work of the WGI for the next three years will aim at strengthening the implementation of the principles, through: Promoting the use of existing indicators and developing impact indicators that can be used as a voluntary self-assessment tool among interested cities, basins and countries. Impact indicators are essentially about measuring change and to what extent water governance measures are having the intended results for example in relation to SDGs. In other words they are a measure of the extent to which you have achieved your objectives and your longer term goals. Promoting capacity development and developing modules and activities that can help inspire water governance transformations at different scales (cities, basins, regions, countries). It includes, amongst others, the further use and dissemination of water governance practices as a peer-learning tool that can assist to illustrate what type of capacities that are needed to make progress in particular contexts. Capacity development will target the Principles and existing indicator framework as means for contributing to the achievement of the SDGs. In a simplified way capacity development can be seen as processes through which individuals and organisations obtain, strengthen and sustain capabilities to set and achieve development objectives over time.