OECD: Measuring the transformation of the economy - green growth Indicators
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Stakeholder consultations
Electronic and face-to-face consultations need to be organised to facilitate the exchange between the stakeholders involved in the project. Regular exchange within the inter-ministerial supervisory group should be held throughout the process.
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Moreover, wider consultations should be organised, at different stages of the project, with the involved experts and stakeholders from NGOs, academia and private sector.
Finalisation of the expert paper and the data-based publication
The expert paper should address the needs and feasibility for a regular green growth measurement in terms of the development and application of the national measurement framework on green growth and share lessons learned from the pilot project. A second core product of the process should be a publication resulting from the pilot application of the OECD set of GGIs. Leadership in its preparation could be taken by an institution within the government or outside it. With respect to experiences in processing and disseminating, the national statistical agency may be a natural choice.
The report should present the indicators selected for the national framework and show trends. It is recommended that a number of issues such as the definition, policy relevance, data sources and references are covered for each selected indicator. An analysis of the available data that may include trends, assessments of policy targets and international comparisons which can be supported by visuals such as graphs, charts, and dashboards.
Towards measuring the green transformation of the economy in Kyrgyzstan In Kyrgyzstan the national programme to measure progress towards green growth was launched in preparation of the Rio+20 Summit in 2012. After the Summit, a scoping meeting on the pilot testing of Green Growth Indicators was convened by the Kyrgyz Ministry of Economy. Its participants included officials from the host Ministry, the State Agency on Environmental Protection and Forestry Management, the National Statistical Committee, UNDP and the Central Asia’s Regional Environmental Centre. The group decided that the national measurement framework. Like in other countries in the region, environmental and developmental challenges are closely interlinked. The following sectors have been identified as a priority for the green growth measurement framework in the Kyrgyz Republic: (i) water; (ii) energy; and (iii) agriculture. Since 2013, the statistical annual publication “The Environment in the Kyrgyz Republic” of the National Statistical Committee, contains a section on green growth indicators existing in the system of the state statistics and includes data on more than 40 GGIs. In February 2015, the government of Kyrgyzstan approved a set of 65 indicators, based on the OECD framework, to monitor and evaluate the country’s progress towards a green transformation of the economy.
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Dissemination
A communication strategy needs to be developed to make the expert paper and the data-based publication of GGIs known by relevant stakeholders. This can include a shared (one-stop-shop) website with easy accessible online documents and wide dissemination campaign through national media. The use of headline indicators can here be helpful.
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Based on the suggestions made in the expert paper, an inter-agency group should coordinate and implement follow-up action. This could include, for example, the identification of focal points for green growth measurement in the relevant ministries.