Search thematic indicators
In the table below you can find all indicators included in all thematic Results and Indicators for Development guidance. This table serves as a searching engine for users to facilitate and speed up the search of the indicators suggested in the guidance. The sector indicators listed in the table are examples of measurable indicators associated to each result statement provided in the different guidance, that may be used in Logframe Matrices at project / programme level. These sectorial indicators draw on specific sectorial documents and on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Gender Action Plan (GAP III), Global Europe Results Framework (GERF), NDICI Regulation, FPI Performance Framework, IPA III Results Framework among others. Many of these indicators are flagged as “Core indicators” because they are part of the core indicators in OPSYS. Click here for more information about the core indicators available in OPSYS.
Intervention M&E system
Project M&E system (Data should be available from National governments; sectoral level data might have to be measured at project / programme level)
EU intervention monitoring and reporting systems: annual and final reports from implementing organisations (e.g. governments, international organisations, non-state actors, etc.), ROM reviews and evaluations. Other sources of intervention information may also include: design studies, tender documents and specifications (for expected results), supervisor reports and reports from site visits.
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-08-10-02.pdf
Global SDG Indicators Database, https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/indicators/database/
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2024-08/GERF%202.12%20Access%20to%20digital%20government%20services%20-%20FINAL%20240724.pdf
EU intervention monitoring and reporting systems: annual and final reports from implementing organisations, ROM reviews, and evaluations
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2024-08/GERF%202.13%20Jobs%20-%20FINAL%2006062024.pdf
Project-commissioned studies (at the beginning and end of the Action)
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2024-08/GERF%202.14%20VET%20-%20FINAL%20140824%20%281%29.pdf
Public sector reports - National statistical report
EU intervention monitoring and reporting systems - Progress and final reports for the EU-funded intervention
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2024-08/GERF%202.14%20VET%20-%20FINAL%20140824%20%281%29.pdf
EU intervention monitoring and reporting systems: annual and final reports from implementing organisations, ROM reviews and evaluations.
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2025-11/GERF%202.17%20Access%20to%20financial%20services%20-%20FINAL%20261125.pdf
M&E system of EU-funded interventions
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2024-08/GERF%202.2%20-%20Areas%20of%20agricultural%20and%20pastoral%20ecosystems%20-%20FINAL%20220724.pdf.
The indicator refers to the total number of hectares where, with support from the EU, farmers have introduced/piloted sustainable land management practices aimed at reverting soil erosion, enhancing fertility, increasing biodiversity, improving water management or reducing chemical inputs. A similar indicator can follow up on this at outcome level, to see to what extent the farmers continue to follow these practices once the EU-funded intervention has ended.
Project M&E system
Project-commissioned studies (at the beginning and end of the Action)
Baseline and endline studies commissioned by the EU-funded intervention
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2024-08/GERF%202.21%20Migration%20management%20or%20forced%20displacement%20strategies%20-%20FINAL%20240724.pdf
EU intervention monitoring and reporting systems: annual and final reports from implementing organisations (e.g. governments, international organisations, non-state actors), ROM reviews, evaluations, etc.
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2025-08/GERF%202.23%20State%20institutions%20and%20non-state%20actors%20-%20FINAL%20250724%20%282%29.pdf
Intervention M&E system
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2024-08/GERF%202.30%20Human%20rights%20violations%20-%20FINAL%20250724.pdf
EU intervention monitoring and reporting systems: (i) interim and final reports from implementing organisations, including governments, international organisations, non-state actors, etc (ii) ROM reviews and (iii) evaluations
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2025-08/GERF%202.33%20Nutrition%20-%20FINAL%20250724%20%281%29.pdf
Intervention M&E system
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2025-07/GERF%202.38%20Access%20to%20WatSan%20-%20FINAL%20280725.pdf
Intervention M&E system
You can find all the relevant details on how to use this indicator in its methodological note: https://capacity4dev.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2025-07/GERF%202.38%20Access%20to%20WatSan%20-%20FINAL%20280725.pdf
EU intervention monitoring and reporting systems - Progress and final reports for the EU-funded intervention, ROM reviews, EU-funded feasibility or appraisal reports
International organisation data portals and reports - WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, Global data on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), https://washdata.org/
Please specify water food energy nexus initiatives (e.g. setting up water reservoirs for energy generation used for the irrigation and powering irrigation systems)
Handover/technical inspection documents
- Water (Water)
1) National Statistical Agencies- Surveys and Administrative records
2)World Bank, International Household Survey Network - Household surveys
3)World Bank’s ‘Doing Business; survey- Administrative data
4) UN-Habitat- Urban Indicator Database
Gallup World Poll (GWP). Since 2014, the 8-item FIES survey module has been applied in nationally representative samples of the adult population (defined as aged 15 or older) in over 140 countries, an annual survey covering 90% of the world population. Voices of the Hungry
World Bank data