Green Recovery And Reconstruction: Training Toolkit For Humanitarian Aid Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation Session 3: SMART Environmental Indicators

2 Mod 2 Ses 3 We will discuss…  How to select and measure environmental indicators using the same criteria as any other indicator, i.e., SMART  How to overcome constraints to using them

3 Mod 2 Ses 3 Step 5: Integrate environmental indicators into project monitoring.

4 Mod 2 Ses 3 An Environmental Indicator… … measures the condition of the environment and its change over time.

5 Mod 2 Ses 3 SMART Indicators S M A R T S pecific M easurable A chievable R elevant T ime-bound You may need technical assistance to design indicators

6 Mod 2 Ses 3 Environmental Indicators May Measure … Inputs/activities: What you put into a project E.g. Quantity of native, local seeds distributed Outputs: The anticipated results of your activity E.g. Increased crop yields through better management practices Project objectives: The changes in people’s lives that result from a project E.g. Improved nutrition of local population without increased risk of future insecurity

7 Mod 2 Ses 3 Examples Common effects of humanitarian activities Indicator Water and sanitation Increases stress & demand on existing water resources Change in supply / quality of freshwater since disaster Decrease in water qualityQuantity of untreated wastewater since disaster ShelterLand degradationChange in area of forest cover since disaster Unsustainable materials resource use Change in extraction rate of resource since disaster

8 Mod 2 Ses 3 Exercise: SMART indicators Working in your same groups, identify 1 or 2 SMART indicators for your sectoral project (based on your work in the last session) regarding:  Activity  Outcomes  Impact

9 Mod 2 Ses 3 Example Your Disaster Recovery Project Your planSMART Indicator Activity Outcome Project objective Increase Crop Productivity Supply fertilizer, make compost Increased food production and decrease in malnutrition Increased soil fertility Quantity of fertilizer and compost supplied this year Crop yield per hectare this yr. Rate of malnutrition in target communities among children under 5 this year

10 Mod 2 Ses 3 Worksheet Your Disaster Recovery Project Your planSMART Indicator Activity Output Project objective

11 Mod 2 Ses 3 Constraints to Monitoring Environmental Indicators  What challenges have you faced in monitoring humanitarian assistance projects?  What challenges have you faced in monitoring environmental aspects of projects?

12 Mod 2 Ses 3 Exercise: Overcoming Constraints  Lack of data: (difficult to establish baseline and norms and thresholds) difficult to compare, often have to collect data on your own.  Time: environment is long-term change that may not be measured in a project life span  Scale: often environmental impacts and change occur beyond project area  Cause-effect: some say that it is impossible to definitively say that there is a cause and effect  Difficult to distinguish between changes in other things vs. changes due to project activities

13 Mod 2 Ses 3 Exercise: Overcoming Constraints Working in your groups 1.Choose three or four of the constraints. 2.Discuss: How might you overcome these constraints? Examples: From your list OR Lack of data Time Scale Cause-effect Difficult to distinguish between changes in other things vs. change due to project activities

14 Mod 2 Ses 3 Examples of Indicators  Questions or comments on these indicators?

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