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ISSUE: Feb 2002 UAE ranked low in WEF Environmental Sustainability Index Data ‐ limited accessibility, applicability Identified as a widespread challenge in many countries

RESPONSE:

AGEDI launched by H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nayhan at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), Johannesburg in Sept 2002

WSSD “Type II partnership” Voluntary partnerships to implement Agenda 21 and MDG’s Focus on systemic data‐information related challenges Partnership between Environment Agency Abu Dhabi and UNEP EAD Local champion UNEP International champion

AGEDIClosing the Data Gap

Typical Situation

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Expert Analysis &

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1. Thematic silos2. Ad hoc processes3. Manual workflows4. Manual collation of results

• Decision maker overwhelmed with uncoordinated information

• Reporting is burdensome, slow and expensive process

The Requirement/Briefing1. An indicator‐based environmental reporting tool

2. To provide a reporting capability for organisations with minimal resources (web tool)

3. To be compelling – by delivering business benefit – i.e. improving organisational efficiency (through automation and utilising shared knowledge/effort)

4. To be a durable solution (capable of accommodating new and evolving indicators)

5. To be relevant at all scales of reporting (Local to Global)

6. To be relevant around the world (not tied to any geography‐specific indicators)

7. To enable mandated (inter‐organizational) reporting (Local ˃National ˃ Regional/Global)

8. To support tactical (local issue) management/reporting (Executive dashboard)

9. To support integrated/holistic reporting (i.e. multiple indicators = Env+Eco+Scoio data sources)

10. To consume and (optionally) contribute to report and indicators resource/knowledgebase

11. To implement (per organisational policies) strict access and sharing controls on data and output

Scope A B C

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X Y Z

• The NRT supports any indicator that can be expressed as a function

• Function may be simple or complex(algebraic, scripts, spatial analyses etc.)

• Function involves one or more data parameters

• Parameters have documented specifications

Data collection and recording standards

• Parameters may come from one or more sourcesLocal or remote

• Data sources may be diverse in form (file, d/b, web services)

• Indicators selected from a shared knowledgebase

• Indicators installed in a specific NRT by a local power-user

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Period

Subject matter expert enters interpretation narrative

Related/contextual data-linked elements aid interpretation

(Includes i/a trends in algorithmparameters)

Indicator value for the reporting period

Indicator Title

Period

Previous sheets to guide interpretation

Supporting Information

NRT – Conceptual Architecture

DataProcessing

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Interpretation & ReportingEngine

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NRT InstanceConfiguration

InternalSpecifications

ExternalSpecifications

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Internal Data Holdings

DataAccess Component

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External Transmittal

External Data Holdings

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Executive has actionable data

Organisation has reduced burden

Executive Dashboard

NRT Reports as Data Transfer Vehicle

Sub National NRT

National NRTSub National

ReportsNational Report

Multi‐Level Reporting

Nation 1 NRT

Global Assessments

UNEP LIVE

Sub National NRT#1

Env Monitoring

Data

Local NonEnv. Authority

Data

Regional NRT

Nation 2 NRT

NationalReporting

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Sub National NRT#2

Multilateral Env Agreements Communities of

Practice

National

uneplive.unep.org • An extensive, global, two‐way Environmental Assessment Resource Sharing infrastructure

• Data• Reports• Reporting obligations• Indicator definitions• Best practices

• Communities of practice• Geographic• Thematic

• Collaborative assessments esp. GEO

NRT as a Capacity Building tool• Focuses

• Organisational activities around reporting obligations/processes

• Executive dashboard reveals the state of organisational monitoring and management

• Encourages

• Systems approach to Environmental Management

• e.g. DPSIR framework

• Collection and Storing of field data

• According to standard methods

• In a timely manner

• Facilitates

• Coordinated approach to environmental management and reporting across tiers of Government

DEPLOYMENT

NRT Deployment Options

NRT

NRT

PrivateReporting

PublicReporting

Resources

cloud/internet NRT’sin-house NRT’s

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Timetable• 2014

• UNEP develop version 1.0 for EAD use• 2015

• EAD testing, refinement, endorsement• Develop NRT‐to‐NRT communication & other refinements• Deploy in UAE Ministry of Environment & Water (MOEW) National level

(UAE) • Train‐the‐trainer capacity building to MOEW • MOEW will lead deployment in other Emirates• Capacity building workshops for Regional Champion (CAMRE/CEDARE)

• 2016• Deploy at CAMRE/CEDARE• Train‐the‐trainer capacity building to CAMRE – who will lead deployment

across West Asia

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Summary: The NRT …1. Supports any indicator

(NRT is globally applicable, enduring, relevant at all levels of Govt.)

2. Reduces effort – automates field data to indicator calculation

3. Uses internal data; external data and NRT‐generated reports.

4. Captures Expert Interpretation

5. Provides Executive Dashboard of Indicators

6. Collates Indicator Interpretation Sheets into a Report

7. Allows formal transmittal of reports (optionally with underlying data) between organisations

MOEW

EAD SHJ RAK FUJ DXB UAQ AJM

Deployment of Model

Most effective as a top‐down (Ministry) led initiative • Capacity Building Workshops / On‐line training• Web version (UNEP‐hosted)• Local versions locally‐resourced (Ministry hosted or sub‐nationally – per data policy)

AGEDI

AGEDI

MOEW

Enable sustainable development by ensuring planning is properly informed by data and information which is fit for purpose and usable by:

1. Enhancing environmental data collection and assessment.2. Increasing environmental data‐related capacities

• Local• National• Regional• Global contexts

3. Enabling and encouraging accessibility of data and information to all stakeholders.

4. Enhancing national and international mechanisms of • Information processing • Information exchange.

AGEDI Goals

A Partnership Organization National (UAE)

EWS‐WWF I ADSIC I Masdar Institute

Ministry of Environment & Water

Ministry of Foreign Affairs ‐ Directorate of Energy & Climate Change

REGIONAL

UNEP Regional Office of West Asia (ROWA)

League of Arab States I CAMRE I CEDARE

Global

UNEP I Global Footprint Network I European Environment Agency

World Bank I Global Environment Facility (GEF)

National Geographic I UNEP‐World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Group of Earth Observations (GEO) I World Resource Institute (WRI)

UNEP Partnership AGEDI is implementd as a partnership between EAD and UNEP UNEP Live

Web‐platform to promote access to and use of environmental information

National Reporting Toolkit (NRT) Inter/Intranet indicator‐calculation and reporting tool Collaboration platform Eye of Earth Community2011 SummitDeclaration (collaboration in informed decision making for SD)Special Initiatives October 2015 ‐ EoE Alliance (GEO, WRI, IUCN, UNEP, EAD)

Environmental Performance Index (EPI)*

In the decade 2002‐2012

UAE 27th of overall improvement in last decade

UAE 2nd most improved in the Middle East North Africa region

The Living Planet Report: Ecological Footprint Index*

2010: EFP per person 10.68 gha/cp


Source: 1. http://epi.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/Summary_Final‐%20OnlineV3_1.pdf2. http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/trends/unitedarabemirates/

AGEDI’s Contribution to Progress

2004 2006 2008 20102002

Sept 2, 2002AGEDI launched @ WSSD, Johannesburg

2004: Inclusion of Abu Dhabi State of the Environment Reporting into AGEDI process

2013

Milestones Facilitating a sustainable future.

2005 West Asia Geoportal

2006: 9 Environmental Sector Papers published

2010: Review of State of the Environment Report Abu Dhabi & Sector Papers

2010: Environmental Outlook

2012: Blue Carbon Demonstration Project

2012: Local National & Regional Biodiversity Rapid Assessment

2012:Rapid and Systematic Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment:

2009: SoE Report Abu Dhabi Published

2009: Hosted Global Meeting on Environmental Information Networking

2013: National Reporting Toolkit (NRT)

2013: Arabian Atlas of Our Changing Environment with UNEP

2011: Eye on Earth Summit & inception of 8 Special Initiatives

2007 Al Basma al Beeiya (Ecological Footprint) Initiative

Workshops

• In collaboration with Ministry of Environment and Water

• Government Environment and Statistical entities from across UAE (Emirate and Federal)

• Facilitated by Leading Regional and International Indicator and Reporting Experts

• Experts presentations followed by facilitated discussion

• Venue: Dusit Thani Hotel – Abu Dhabi

• November 16 – 19 Assessment Frameworks, Indicator Selection and Data sourcing

• December 7 – 10 Implementation

MOEW

EAD SHJ RAK FUJ DXB UAQ AJM

Deployment of NRT across UAE

Philosophy: Train‐the‐trainer: Sustain NRT and Empower Organisations• All participate in Capacity Building Workshops• Institutionalisation and Resourcing in other entities – responsibility of the entity• MOEW lead deployment in other Emirates• AGEDI support MOEW as required

AGEDI

AGEDI

NRT Scope and Partnerships• Local Assessments (EAD)

• Other Emirates (via MOEW)

• National Assessments (MOEW)

• Regional Assessments (UNEP & CEDARE)

• Global Assessments (UNEP)

• Local, National and Regional Statistical Authorities are key stakeholders

Conceptual Architecture

DataReaderModule

IndicatorCalculatorModule

IndicatorInterpretationSheet Module

ReportProductionModule

Report TransmittalModule

Data SourceConnectors

Indicator Definitions Indicator

Interpretation Sheet

Templates

Published Indicator Sheets

ReportTemplates

Published Reports

Transmittal Log

Report Scheduler

Data Rules

2014• Develop Internationally applicable/future‐proof

• Configurable by local power users for any indictor

• Deploy v1.0 production ready standalone system in EAD • Prove and validate NRT before exposing it to MOEW

• Deliver Capacity building workshops for key Sub National and National entities for UAE

2015+• 2015

• Enable NRT‐to‐NRT communication• Deploy in UAE Ministry of Environment & Water (MOEW) National level

(UAE) • Train‐the‐trainer capacity building to MOEW – who will lead deployment

in other Emirates• Capacity building workshops for a Regional Entity (CAMRE)

• 2016• Deploy at CAMRE/CEDARE• Train‐the‐trainer capacity building to CAMRE – who will lead deployment

across West Asia

What is the NRT Project?1. Development of an indicator‐based environmental status reporting

information system

2. Institutional capacity building mechanism – Indicator‐based assessment and reporting

3. An AGEDI project in collaboration with UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA)

Benefits• Reduces monitoring and reporting effort to only those steps that add value.

• Reduces man hours required.

• Reduces reporting turnaround time – provides more timely information

• Enables formal submittal of data‐rich reports to other entities

• Allows report‐mandating organizations to prescribe reporting templates

• Allows report‐mandating organizations to prescribe indicators

• Same system can be used at all levels of Governance (local, national, regional, global)

• Only indictors are different

• The data‐rich reports from lower tiers are inputs to higher tier organizations

• Enables efficient National, Regional, Global and thematic assessments

• Enables aggregation of indicators (e.g. for local to national reporting; national to regional etc)

Back‐end Conceptual Architecture

A Collaboration AGEDI’s contribution Funding Core Software Development Providing Capacity Building workshops for UAE organizations Facilitating NRT deployment and capacity building across West Asia

EAD’s contribution Identify EAD business challenges & system specifications Validate Delivered System against real‐world user needs

UNEP’s contribution Software Development Worldwide deployment Global environmental stewardship NRT will become a foundational component of UNEP’s Global Assessment mechanisms

UNEP AGEDINRT

• Through AGEDI EAD is enabling NRT and thus UNEP Live and thus advancing global environmental stewardship

• The globally deployed NRT will acknowledge EAD/AGEDI’s foundational contributions

AGEDI Mission• Enabling effective data access and availability

• Determine strategies for data access, acquisition and dissemination

• Address specific data, information and knowledge product needs;

• Enabling and facilitating perpetual local, regional and global participation

• Ensuring capability and capacity building of developing countries and emerging economies

• Support 'best‐impact' access and application of data and information for decision making.

• AGEDI projects must be:

• Relevant to EAD

• Relevant and replicable across developing countries and emerging economies – esp. Arab Region

A Collaboration AGEDI’s contribution Funding Core Software Development Providing Capacity Building workshops for UAE organizations Facilitating NRT deployment and SoER capacity building across West Asia

EAD’s contribution Identify EAD business challenges & system specifications Validate Delivered System against real‐world user needs

UNEP’s contribution NRT is a foundational component of UNEP‐LIVE UNEP Software Development Worldwide deployment Global environmental stewardship

UNEP AGEDINRT

UNEP LIVE

NRT

NRT for Capacity Building• Focuses

• Organisational activities around reporting obligations/processes

• Executive dashboard reveals the state of organisational monitoring and management

• Encourages

• Systems approach to Environmental Management

• e.g. DPSIR framework

• Collection and Storing of field data

• According to standard methods

• In a timely manner

• Facilitates

• Coordinated approach to environmental management and reporting across tiers of Government

UNEP LIVE• An extensive, global, API‐based two‐way Environmental Assessment Resources Sharing

infrastructure to support the NRT user base• Data Services• Processing Services• Knowledge• and ... a platform for

collaborative global environmental assessments esp. GEO‐based on data/info resources pulledfrom NRT installs

http://uneplive.unep.org/

NRT

NRT

NRT

NRT

NRT

NRT

What is the NRT?The NRT is a Web‐Based Information System which will: Access existing line‐of‐business environmental monitoring data holdings Orchestrate the automated processing of data:• Calculates Indicators Provides a multi‐indicator DPSIR‐structured dashboard Provide tools for expert commentary on indicators: Maps, Graphs, SME Narrative API‐based sharing of indicators, data, knowledge and

tools with other Env Organizations Uses UNEP Live as an enabling & foundational infrastructure Intended for worldwide deployment by UNEP One deployment per organization Can be deployed locally in organization or as a hosted service

Data Processing

Engine

Knowledge base Library of Tools

Reporting Engine

Data Access Engine

Benefits1. Improves efficiency of

reporting 2. Supports local tactical and

strategic management of Env. issues

AGEDI Mission• Enabling effective data access and availability

• Determine strategies for data access, acquisition and dissemination

• Address specific data, information and knowledge product needs;

• Enabling and facilitating perpetual local, regional and global participation

• Ensuring capability and capacity building of developing countries and emerging economies

• Support 'best‐impact' access and application of data and information for decision making.

• AGEDI projects must be:

• Relevant to EAD

• Relevant and replicable across developing countries and emerging economies – esp. Arab Region

Environmental Performance Index (EPI)*

In the decade 2002‐2012

UAE 27th of overall improvement in last decade

UAE 2nd most improved in the Middle East North Africa region

The Living Planet Report: Ecological Footprint Index*



Source: 1. http://epi.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/Summary_Final‐%20OnlineV3_1.pdf2. http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/trends/unitedarabemirates/

AGEDI’s Contribution to Progress

Indicator Interpretation SheetSubject matter experts add interpretation commentary

Data (and data-linked graphs and maps) from other sources can be included aid interpretation

Library of Reporting Obligations

Indicator Configuration

User and Access Management

Interpretation Sheets

FACILITATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. LOCAL TO GLOBAL.

Introduction to AGEDI

The National Reporting Toolkit(NRT)

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