1.       Provide (country name, geography, scope, and year) full, official name of assessment e.g. Global Environment Outlook 2000.

 

2.       Provide acronym by which the assessment is commonly known e.g. GEO 2000.

 

3.       Specify the scope of the assessment

 

4.       Provide outline description of the overall goals of the assessment citing the specific issues addressed.

 

5.       Select from table the lead institution or institutions responsible for the management of the assessment.

 

6.       Select from table the institution responsible for financing the assessment.

 

7.       Select from table other institutions, if applicable, responsible for co-financing the assessment

 

8.       Provide an estimate of the total administrative cost (in US$) of the assessment.  Then list the financial contributions followed by the in-kind contributions.

 

9.       Specify the name of the main decision-making forum (e.g. UNEP Governing Council) responsible for receiving and considering the findings of the assessment.  Quite often, this is the same body that requested the assessment to be undertaken.

 

10.   Assessments may be carried out in response to one or more mandates.  Provide an overall summary of the mandates underpinning the assessment without going into specific details.

 

11.   Select the specific mandates underpinning the assessment.  If an individual mandate is not available in the pop-up list, use the free text box to describe it.

 

12.   Specify the administrative start and finish dates of the assessment exercise/project (do not confuse this with the temporal scope of the assessment itself which could extend into the future – see field 14 below).

 

 

13.   Select broad and narrow keywords that describe the thematic coverage of the assessment.  Use the free text box to provide a keyword that is not available in the thesaurus.

 

14.   Select as appropriate the region, sub-region, country, or specify another geographic domain (e.g. Mount Kilimanjaro, Lake Chad ) that best describes the geographic coverage of the assessment.

 

15.   Specify the time period (in years) covered by the assessment (do not confuse with the start and end dates of the assessment). An end date in the future is permitted.

 

 

16.   Provide an estimate of the number of institutions involved in all the stages of conducting the assessment from planning through to implementation.

 

17.   Provide an estimate of the number of institutions involved in the collection and provision of new data for the assessment. 

 

18.   Provide an estimate of the number of individual experts involved in all the stages of conducting the assessment from planning through to implementation. 

 

19.   Provide an estimate of the number of individual experts involved in peer reviewing the reports produced by the assessment.

 

20.   Provide an estimate of the number of institutions involved in disseminating the various outputs (reports, technical studies, executive summaries, etc) that describe the findings of the assessment.

 

21.   Refer back to item 7 for name of decision-making forum before selecting Yes/No

 

22.   Refer back to item 7 for name of decision-making forum before selecting Yes/No

 

 

23.   To report objectively on the impact of an assessment, it is necessary to consider a number of relevant factors related to impacts, not all of which may necessarily be applicable.  Please examine each of the following factors and use the questions posed in the help commands to frame your responses.

 

a.      Did the assessment lead to the formulation of new law and policy, strategies, programmes or action plans to protect environmental resources?

 

b.      Did the assessment lead to improved implementation of existing law and policy, strategies, programmes or action plans?

 

c.       Did the assessment lead to a change in human behaviour (changes in consumption patters, waste management, decision-making, actions to protect resources, etc)?

 

d.      Did the assessment stimulate new research being undertaken in one or more of the thematic areas covered by the assessment?

 

e.      Did the assessment lead to improved environmental monitoring systems and better data collection mechanisms?

 

f.        Did the assessment lead to improved information dissemination and exchange among stakeholders involved directly in the assessment (scientists, decision-makers,...) and others indirectly (e.g. media, NGOs, educationalists)?

 

g.      Did the assessment lead to increased capacity of the institutions involved in planning and conducting the assessment i.e. enabling them to undertake and participate in future assessments with greater empowerment?

 

h.      Did the assessment lead to increased public awareness, through the media and other channels of communication, of the issues considered by the assessment?

 

i.        Specify other factors deemed necessary to describe positive impacts generated by the assessment.