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Indicators Forum
Welcome to the INECE Indicators Forum page. In this area of the site, you may participate in discussion with global and regional experts regarding key global, regional, and national parameters for assessing and reporting on environmental compliance and enforcement performance and explore in detail the existing work on the development of environmental indicators and assist in the establishment of indicators specific to compliance and enforcement.

Key Publications on ECE Indicators
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Summary: INECE e-dialogue on Implementing and Using ECE Indicators (15 Feb. - 5 March 2005) Adobe PDF Icon
The archived discussion, along with discussion guidance questions and background information, is also available.
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Summary: INECE e-dialogue on Good Practices for Identifying Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators (18 Aug. - 09 Sept. 2004) Adobe PDF Icon
You may also visit the archived discussion. For more information, visit the "Good Practices for Identifying ECE Indicators" page.
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Proceedings: INECE-OECD Expert Workshop on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (ECE) Indicators (3-4 November 2003)
Proceedings include Workshop summary, 20 country reports, and the Workshop background paper
Оценка систем экологического контроля : Измерять значимое Adobe PDF Icon (Workshop Proceedings in Russian)
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Presentation: Performance Indicators for Environmental Enforcement and Compliance Programs, Michael Stahl (September 2004) Adobe PDF Icon
Basic concepts and best practices for identifying, designing, and implementing ECE indicators
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Presentación: Función de los indicadores de desempeño de los Programas de aplicación y cumplimiento de la normativa ambiental, Michael Stahl (September 2004) Adobe PDF Icon
Conceptos básicos y prácticas para los indicadores de desempeño de los programas de aplicación y cumplimiento de la normativa ambiental
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Paper: Performance Indicators for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Programs: the U. S. EPA Experience, Michael Stahl (2004) Adobe PDF Icon
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Glossary, Common Definitions for ECE Terminology
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Presentation: Compliance Analysis and Planning (CAP) Presentation, Frank Barrett, Environment Canada Adobe PDF Icon
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Program Description: World Bank Institute Environmental Governance Program ECE Indicators Project
Descriptions of World Bank Institute's ECE indicators programs in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
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Newsletter: Special Edition of the INECE Newsletter on Environmental Enforcement Indicators (2002) Adobe PDF Icon
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Publication, Indicators of Effective Environmental Enforcement, Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Environmental Indicators Projects
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World Resources Institute: The Access Initiative; Global Forest Watch; and Reefs at Risk.
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World Bank: Web-Interactive Access to Governance Indicators
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World Bank: Developing Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators
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OECD Statistics Portal and OECD Environmental Indicators

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European Environment Agency: Environmental Indicators (Drivers-Pressures-State-Impacts-Response Model)
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Web site for Expert meeting on indicators of biological diversity including indicators for rapid assessment of inland water ecosystems (Meeting held Feb 10-12, 2003 in Canada)
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European Environment Agency: An indicator-based approach to assessing the environmental performance of European marine fisheries and aquaculture
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CIESIN, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, and World Economic Forum: Environmental Sustainability Index
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Steering Group of the Global Principles Network, Principles for Global Corporate Responsibility: Bench Marks for Measuring Business Performance
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Finland, The Compliance Monitoring Data System (VAHTI)
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Environment Canada, Quantitative Indicators for Ecosystem Health
INECE Indicators Featured Publications

Performance Measurement Guidance for Compliance and Enforcement Practitioners - Second Edition Adobe PDF Icon - updated April 2008
This document provides guidance to environmental compliance and enforcement (ECE) practitioners for identifying, implementing and using ECE indicators. The document was written to be useful to countries considering whether to develop indicators, those in the early or mid-term stages of an indicators effort, and those already using indicators to report to the public and make program management decisions.

INECE Brochure on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators
ECE Indicator Profiles
Argentina: Pilot Project on ECE Indicators in Latin America: The Case of Argentina
  Argentina: Normas e indicadores ambientales: De la teoría a la realidad
South Africa: Experiences in Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Limpopo Province, South Africa
North America: Enforcement Indicators and Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
Visit INECE's 7th Conference Proceedings for other new documents on ECE Indicators development and use.
Making Law Work
Chapter 11: Indicators for Measuring Compliance PDF icon

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News and Events

New "Governance Matters" Indicators Update
In September 2006, the World Bank Institute released a new report in the 'Governance Matters' series containing the updated and expanded set of worldwide Governance Indicators for 213 countries and territories. A video of report author Daniel Kaufman discussing the publication is available through WBI.

Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators Trainings in Asia
In conjunction with the Expert Working Group and AECEN, INECE delivered 2-day capacity building programs on the Identification, Design, and Use of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam. In each of the three countries, the program was highly successful and resulted in a draft set of compliance and enforcement indicators that can be tested and implemented by the environment agency of each country.

Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network for Accession Benchmarking Project
The Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network for Accession (ECENA) announced a new project to build capacity in Progress Monitoring and Benchmarking for environmental compliance and enforcement in the West Balkans.

The project, which is supported by the World Bank, will be implemented though collecting international experience on benchmarking and progress monitoring, developing Guidelines on Progress Monitoring and Benchmarking in Environmental Enforcement and Compliance, and conducting regional training on the same topic.

For more information please contact Mr. Mihail Dimovski at mdimovski@rec.org.

Millennium Challenge Corporation Workshop and Call for Indicators
At a meeting of natural resources experts on June 24, 2005, hosted by The Brookings Institution, MCC announced an invitation for ideas from the public for an index or indicator to measure effective governance of natural resources. Proposals are due to MCC by 8 August 2005.