1.       Provide full, official name of assessment process e.g. Global Environment Outlook.

 

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

 

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

 

4.       Select from table the lead institution or institutions responsible for the management of the overall assessment process.

 

5.       Describe the various decision-making foray responsible for receiving and considering the findings of the assessment process. 

 

6.       Provide an overall summary of the mandates underpinning the assessment process without going into specific details.

 

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

 

8.       Describe the overall scope of the assessment process including specific questions to be addressed and interlinkages among various sectors.  The description of the scope should present a clear picture of the overall comprehensiveness of the process.

 

9.       Describe the working modalities of the assessment process.  Include references to how the assessment was organised and how participants were engaged.  Issues such as networking, the use of working groups, scientific engagement, collaboration with stakeholder such as UN agencies and NGOs, and peer review mechanisms, etc should be described.

 

10.   Describe the total cost of the Assessment Process

 

11.   Describe the funding mechanism used to finance the overall assessment process citing budgetary sources and estimates of financial and in-kind contributions

 

12.   Describe in general terms the periodicity of assessments being carried out or planned under the process

 

 

13.   Specify start date (year) of the process

 

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

 

15.   Select as appropriate the region, sub-region, country, or specify another geographic domain (e.g. Carpathians, Mesopotamia marshlands) that best describes the geographic coverage of the assessment process.

 

16.   Specify the time period (in years) covered by the assessment process. An end date in the future is permitted.

 

 

17.   Describe the mechanism used for identifying and engaging partners in the assessment process

 

 

18.   To report objectively on the impact of an assessment process, 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 process lead to the formulation of new law and policy, strategies, programmes or action plans to protect environmental resources?

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

f.        Did the assessment process 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 process lead to increased capacity of the institutions involved in planning and conducting the assessment process i.e. enabling them to generate or contribute to new sub-processes and individual assessments in specific areas?

 

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

 

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

 

19.   Describe the main strengths of the process with reference to context, scale, participation and effectiveness.

 

20.   Describe the main strengths of the process with reference to context, scale, participation and effectiveness.