ECENA Workshop on Benchmarking and Progress Monitoring in Environmental Enforcement and Compliance

Szentendre , March 29-30, 2007

Assessment Tools and Methods for Progress Monitoring and Benchmarking

Mihail Dimovski

ECENA SecretariatThe Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe

KEY DEFFINITIONS

“Monitoring is defined as process that systematically and critically observes events connected to a project/program/policy which enables decision makers to adapt

policies to given conditions”

“Evaluation is defined as the process of determining the worth or significanse of a development activity , policy or program to determine the relevance of objectives, the efficacy of design ,implementation and use of resources and sustainability of

resources" World Bank

SYNERGIES AMONG MONITORING AND EVALUATION

• Monitoring is basis for conducting evaluation• Monitoring information can identify potential problems• Evaluation is more detailed and generally more costly activity

Monitoring and Evaluation

1. Monitoring the trends of outcome/impact indicators related to program or policy

2. Monitoring implementation of program that contribute towards implementation of targets or benchmarks

3. Assessing the impact of a programs or policies on selected targets or benchmarks

Core Components of Monitoring and Evaluation

• Logical Framework Approach/LogFrame

• Theory Based Evaluation

• Rapid Appraisal Method

• Impact Evaluation• Peer Review

Frequently Used Tools and Methods for

Progress Monitoring

• Requirement to monitor and report progress to EC• Benefits for progress monitoring in the approximation

and implementation of EU legislation : More efficient use or resources Increased cooperation within the Ministries Stakeholders support building Preparation for the responsibilities for membership

• Current requirements for progress monitoring • Use of Table of Concordance

Progress Monitoring in EU Accession context

• Use of provision-by-provision table of Concordance for reporting transposition

• Provisions of national legislation set in parallel to the EU acqis to enable comparison

• Each obligation in a Directive is

Scored from 1 to 5

Guide to the Approximation of the EU Legislation

Scoring system for monitoring progress in transposition

Legislation act (L):0= No steps taken to date1= Draft in process2= Ministry approves3= Government approves4= After first reading in Parliament5= Fully transposed and publishedGovernment order (GO):0= No steps taken to date1= Draft in process3= Ministry approves4=Other relevant ministries approve5= Government approves and publishedMinisterial order (MO):0= No steps taken to date1= Draft in process3= Draft in consultation5= Ministry approves and publishes

• Understand the need monitor and report to the level of transposition and implementation of EU legislation

• Develop of mechanisms to track progress: 2 types of information is needed : objective assessment of the current status of

transposition of the acquis Information on the changes towards legislative and

implementation programs• Start with provision-by-provision assessment of

the correspondence between national law and the EU legislation

Progress Monitoring in EU Accession context – Getting Started

• simple way of tracking the progress of various approximations – related

activities, • based on a matrix format : The first column of the matrix lists the70+ clusters of EU environmental

legislation listed in the Guide for Approximation. The next few columns indicate which ministry has competence, and which ME

official is responsible for coordinating approximation for each directive. • Another group of columns is used to tract the status of translations of EU

legislation, i.e., if translation and been ordered, checked for technical accuracy, checked for legal accuracy, checked by a linguist, and received official approval.

• The matrix also has columns for tracking whether gap assessment has been carried out, and for noting the status of any draft legislation to transpose the requirements under way.

Lithuanian Experience in Progress

Monitoring of Approximation

• Pre-accession Screening• The Regular Progress Reports• EU Peer Reviews• Twining Programs• Functional Review• Annual reporting on the Implementation of EU Law• Impel Review Initiative• European Environmental Agency Core set of indicators

Major tools and methods for capacity assessment used in the EU accession

process

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