Communities of practice
Poverty & Environment Indicators
12 May 2008
Source: Capability and Sustainability Centre, University of Cambridge
(see original article
)
A report prepared for UNDP-UNEP under the Poverty & Environment Initiative is intended for policy-makers working with poverty and environment issues in Africa.
The major messages of the report are:
Poverty reduction strategies cannot be successfully achieved without taking into account the environment
Human Development can be promoted with moderate increases in countries’ ecological footprint
General Human Well-Being and general Environment indicators are not particularly focused on the links between poverty and environment
The existing P&E indicators can only partially solve the problems of ‘integration’ between their different dimensions and ‘reference’ about the choice of variables that involve evaluative considerations
The measurement of P&E links involves the steps of i) conceptualisation of phenomena, ii) identification of data, iii) development of indicators and iv) elaboration of an index or composite indicators
Indicators should be arranged hierarchically to tell a coherent story.
The full report may be downloaded.
http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/csc/research/UNDP_UNEPengD.pdf
Comments
Featured Meetings:
Is your organisation working against the infectious diseases of poverty?
There are no comments about this article: Please login if you want to submit a comment.