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Working Better Together in a Team Europe Approach

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A tool to help EU Delegations work better together with Member States as Team Europe and with like-minded partners and country stakeholders, through Team Europe Initiatives, joint programming and joint implementation.

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2. Outcome/output-level indicators

This list is compiled in order to state the methodology for outcome/output indicators listed in Table 1 (hyperlinks provided in the far left column) and to identify other, fully or potentially matching, indicators already in use, which could facilitate HQ reporting links and minimise the reporting workload.

Data source: Data reported by TEI interventions, following the methodological notes provided at the hyperlinks
Outcome/output indicators in Table 1 above Indicator framework Notes on fully or partially matching indicators
Renewable energy generation capacity installed (MW) with EU (TEI) support – ex ante data from EU-funded interventions

NDICI/ GERF/

IPA PF

EFSD+

Belgium – BIO: Installed capacity, MW ("Affordable & Clean Energy"). Data can be both ex-ante (only for projects signed in implementation phase) or ex-post (for all portfolio projects).
Finland: Renewable energy generation capacity installed (MW) – electricity, steam and heat included and reported separately. Data is ex post.
France – AFD: Nouvelles capacités d'énergies renouvelables installées (MW). In the annual activity report, data is ex post only.
Germany: KT 4.4 - Additionally installed capacity [MW] of renewable energies for electricity generation. Data is reported ex post.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions avoided (tonnes CO2eq) with EU (TEI) support

NDICI/ GERF/

IPAIII/IPA PF

EFSD+

Belgium – BIO and Enabel: Estimated CO2 emissions avoided

Data is expressed in tonnes CO2 emissions avoided.

France – AFD: Emissions de gaz à effet de serre évitées ou réduites

Data is expressed in tonnes CO2- Equivalent (ex ante only).

Germany: KT 4.1 Amount of greenhouse gas emissions reduced or avoided [in tonnes CO2- Equivalent] (NB: reporting timing is ex-ante for the EU and other MS, while for BMZ it is ex-post)

France – AFD:

Areas benefiting from programmes for improving biodiversity and sustainable management of natural resources, including land, marine and freshwater areas – in ha

(Superficies bénéficiant de programmes d’amélioration de la biodiversité ou de gestion durable des ressources naturelles)

This indicator covers terrestrial, freshwater, marine areas. It is measured in ha.

FR-AFD Belgium – Enabel: Number of hectares benefiting from a biodiversity conservation, restoration or sustainable management program (NB: this indicator count only land/terrestrial and unit of measure would need to be converted from ha to km2)
Finland - Size of areas (hectares) put under (a) environmental or watershed protection, and (b) sustainable forests management (NB: unit of measure would need to be converted from ha to km2)

EU Global Europe Results Framework (NDICI/IPAIII/IPA PF):

Areas of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems under (a) protection, (b) sustainable management with EU support (km2) (NB: in the EURF (2018-2022), this indicator was measured in hectares, but in the new GERF the unit of measure was changed to km2)

Marine areas under a) protection, b) sustainable management with EU support (km2)

Germany: KT 5.1 - Area of protected areas [in ha] to which German development cooperation has contributed NB. it includes both terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and marine areas, data are disaggregated

KT 5.2 Area [in hectares] used or managed to maintain biodiversity NB. it includes both terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and marine areas, however data are not disaggregated

Number of smallholder farmers166 reached (Belgium – BIO) BE-BIO EU Global Europe Results Framework (NDICI/IPA PF/EFSD+): Number of smallholders reached with EU interventions aimed to increase their sustainable production, access to markets and/or security of land

France – AFD: Nombre d'exploitations familiales agricoles soutenues

NB: it cannot be guaranteed that all “exploitations familiales” are smallholders, this should be noted in the reports.

Finland:

  • Number of individuals (disaggregated by sex, disability status or age) and
  • Number of SMEs gaining access to a value chain

Germany: KT 2.4 Number of farms benefiting from access to financial services, inputs or agricultural advice.

NB: When KfW reports on this standard German indicator, they report on the number of all farms (so not necessarily smallholders). GIZ can disaggregate for smallholders as long as smallholders are defined by the size of their entity/surface of farmed area.

France – AFD: Number of people who participated in VET training

(Nombre de personnes ayant suivi une formation professionnelle)

FR-AFD Finland: Number of students enrolled in vocational education and training programmes, disaggregated by sex and disability status

EU Global Europe Results Framework (NDICI/IPA PF): Number of people who have benefited from institution or workplace based VET/skills development interventions supported by the EU:

(a) all VET/skills development,

(b) only VET/skills development for digitalisation

Germany: 3.1 - Number of people who have completed vocational training (NB: counting those benefitting from infrastructure as well – this will be explained in a footnote in the annual report)

Number of beneficiaries with access to financial services with EU (TEI) support:

(a) firms,

(b) people (all financial services),

(c) people (digital financial services)

GERF/

IPA PF

EFSD+

Belgium - BIO:

  • Number of projects supported through Private Equity Funds – (a) Firms
  • Number of tech projects supported through Venture Capital Funds – (a) Firms

NB: data may include smallholder farmers that are also counted under the relevant indicator above.

Enabel: Increase of number of firms and individuals having access to adequate financial and non-financial services, by sex and by age.

NB: this indicator have also absolute number and data can be disaggregated by firms and individuals and financial/non-financial services.

Germany: KT 3.8 - Number of people with improved access to financial services

(NB: "Improved access" means that people use the service not that just that they have theoretical access to it, e.g. it is not enough to install an ATM in a city to count all the inhabitants). This is in line 
the GERF definition, under (b) people.

Number of (a) jobs, (b) green jobs supported/ sustained by the EU (TEI)

GERF/

IPA PF

EFSD+

Belgium:

BIO: Number of direct full-time equivalent jobs supported

Enabel: Number of net decent employment created – direct jobs only

NB: Primarily using ex post data. For BIO: for jobs supported – these are the actual jobs supported at the level of the investee companies (ex post). For Enabel: ex post data (or during intervention).

Finland: Number of full-time (equivalent) jobs supported or created.

Flexible interpretation so far – this likely to be revised by Finland in 
the coming year. Reporting combines large programmes where Finland is just one of the donors (and so results are not specific to its own funding), as well as smaller projects.

Germany: KT 3.4 - Number of jobs created or secured (FTE).

NB: German results data excludes unpaid jobs but includes indirect jobs, which the GERF systematically excludes. From 2023/24, it may be possible for KfW to disaggregate between direct and indirect jobs. GIZ can provide data for direct and indirect jobs separately.

Number of migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people or individuals from host communities protected or assisted with EU (TEI) support NDICI/ GERF Belgium - Enabel: Number of migrants and community members with access to their basic rights and quality services and/or access to/or control over common goods, disaggregated by sex and migrant/community
Germany: KT 1.8 - Number of refugees, IDPs, returnees and residents of host communities assisted (NB: not migrants in general and including returnees)
Number of people directly benefiting from EU (TEI)-supported interventions that specifically aim to support civilian post-conflict peace-building and/or conflict prevention NDICI/ GERF France – AFD: Nombre de personnes appuyées par l’AFD vivant 
en zone de crise et/ou fragile

Germany: KT 1.6 - Number of people directly assisted by peacebuilding activities

NB: the GERF indicator excludes migration interventions. BMZ counts migrants in case of peace building/conflict prevention in migration affected context or if they live in the intervention area. However BMZ does not intent to add results from different indicators so no risk for double counting with KT 1.8.

Number of students enrolled in education with EU (TEI) support: (a) primary education, (b) secondary education, (c) tertiary education NDICI/ GERF

Finland: Number of students enrolled in education at:

b) Primary, c) Secondary, disaggregated by sex and disability status

France – AFD: Nombre d’enfants scolarisés au primaire (désagrégé par sexe) et au premier niveau du secondaire avec l’appui de l’AFD

Germany – KfW and GIZ can report on the GERF indicator

NB. GIZ uses the indicator only for their primary education projects. They can thus contribute for primary education but not for other education level.

Number of people to whom support is provided to help overcoming hunger and malnutrition (German standard indicator) German Standard Indicator KT 2.1

EU Global Europe Results Framework:

Number of women of reproductive age, adolescent girls and children under 5 reached by nutrition-related interventions supported by the EU

Number of food insecure people receiving assistance through interventions supported by the EU

Finland: Number of people reached by nutrition and food safety programmes, disaggregated by sex and disability status
Number of people with access to improved drinking water source and/or sanitation facility with EU (TEI) support

NDICI/ GERF

EFSD+

Belgium - Enabel:

  • Number of people benefitting from safe drinking water in urban areas
  • Increase of proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services (this is SDG 6.1.1 indicator but Enabel has also absolute numbers linked to its projects for this indicator).
Finland: Number of people with access to basic water supply + Number of people with access to basic sanitation – basic is defined following the country’s own specifications It may be safe but not necessarily.

France – AFD:

  • Nombre de personnes bénéficiant d'une amélioration de leur service d'alimentation en eau potable
  • Nombre de personnes bénéficiant d'une amélioration de leur service d'assainissement

NB: Élementaire (basic) is defined as access to a water point with accessibility criteria that is less than 30min away (return trip, waiting included). Safety is defined as at home, available on demand for more than 12 hrs per day and of constant quality.

Germany: KT 5.6 Number of people with access to new or improved drinking water source + KT 5.7 Number of people with new or improved basic sanitation or wastewater treatment.

NB: BMZ sets additional requirements / criteria and takes into account infrastructural capacity

Number of people directly benefiting from EU (TEI) interventions that aim to reduce social & economic inequality

(methodological note under development)

GERF/

IPA PF

 

The qualitative indicator on governance (Extent to which TEI strengthened capacities for good governance¬, covering the judicial, legislative and executive branches) is intentionally left broad so that the individual TEI can submit Stories of Change that they contributed to (following the template in Annex 4). Please note:

  • Governance refers to all processes of governing, the institutions, processes and practices through which issues of common concern are decided upon and regulated.
  • Good governance adds a normative or evaluative attribute to the process of governing. From a human rights perspective it refers primarily to the process whereby public institutions conduct public affairs, manage public resources and guarantee the realisation of human rights.
  • While there is no internationally agreed definition of ‘good governance’, it may span the following topics: full respect of human rights, the rule of law, effective participation, multi-actor partnerships, political pluralism, transparent and accountable processes and institutions, an efficient and effective public sector, legitimacy, access to knowledge, information and education, political empowerment of people, equity, sustainability, and attitudes and values that foster responsibility, solidarity and tolerance.
  • The Human Rights Council has identified the key attributes of good governance: transparency, responsibility, accountability, participation, responsiveness (to the needs of the people).
  • Stories of change related to these aspects and sufficiently answering all the questions from the template are eligible for publication.

166 BIO uses the IRIS catalogue definition of “smallholder farmers” that is based on FAO definition and guidance (allowing for more context specific definition than the often used “less than 2ha”). See here for exact definition https://iris.thegiin.org/glossary/#smallholder-farmers.