Indicator Guidelines for Policy Monitoring in the Pacific

This document has been drafted to provide a more complete picture of the indicator challenges faced in countries in the Pacific and to offer some guiding advice on how to tackle these challenges, including some general guidance on the formulation of indicators.

In particular these guidelines aim to:

• promote the importance of tackling indicator production in a more holistic way for reporting progress against global/regional/national/sub-national initiatives and plans;
• provide guidance on processes for producing indicator frameworks for national policies or plans, including what constitutes a good indicator, through a set of soundness criteria;
• improve the understanding of reporting requirements of priority global and regional initiatives, including how they can be addressed;
• provide background material for Pacific countries to review and develop their own national indicator strategy (if they so wish), covering the following processes;
  • stocktaking of current practices;
  • assessment of what is working and where modifications could be made;
  • development of a new indicator landscape; and
  • potential adoption of a core set of priority indicators.