Transcript What`s Been Happening - Waikato Regional Council

MARCO Update
SPN Meeting
Waikato Regional Council, 6 July 2011
Outline
1. Feedback - MARCO Survey April 2011
2. MARCO Work Programme 2011/12
3. New indicator initiatives
MARCO Feedback – email Survey April 2011
1. What services / products have you used?
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Perception Survey
Website
Indicators
Meetings
Data Analysis Report
Report Cards
77%
73%
59%
55%
32%
9%
2. Satisfaction with quality of services / products
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Rating 3.7 (5 max); 76% satisfied / very satisfied
3. Value in continuing MARCO?
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95.5% yes (21 of 22)
MARCO Feedback – #2
4. Services / products to include in 2011/12 WP
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Annual update of indicators
Explore new indicators (e.g. GPI)
Arrange meetings / seminars
Review of current indicators
Report cards
Data Analysis Report
[Perception Survey
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64%
64%
36%
32%
46%] – 2012/13
Proposed Work Programme 2011/12
1. Updating MARCO Indicators
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Compiling latest data, complete spreadsheet – by April 2012
Update website
Produce 2012 Data Analysis Report – by June 2012
3. Enhancing MARCO website
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WDHB indicators linked - by Oct 2011
Interactive tools for data discovery, exploration and reporting
4. MARCO Indicator Review
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List all indicators used by Waikato TAs, WRC, selected others
Identify and prioritise needs – by May 2012
Proposed Work Programme 2011/12
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5. Communications
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Regular progress reports – SPN meetings
Updating and maintaining MARCO webpages - ongoing
MARCO meetings and working group(s):
– e.g. indicator inventory & review
6. New Indicator Developments
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Maintain overview of national & international work - ongoing
Explore usefulness of sustainability indicators, e.g. GPI
Measuring Sustainability A paradigm shift needed
A global movement:
To change our paradigm of
‘progress’ from:
o ‘increasing economic
production’ (GDP) to
 ‘increasing equitable
and sustainable
wellbeing’
How to measure?
Waikato GPI Framework
www.choosingfutures.co.nz/Publications
Benefits
Costs
Personal
Consumption
Public
Consumption
(Adj. by Inc. Distrib.)
(Non-defensive)
Household and
Community Work
Services of
Public Capital
Socio-economic
Environmental
Defensive Health
Expenditure
Overwork
Unemployment
Crime
Underemployment
Commuting
Loss /Damage to
Terrestrial
Ecosystems
Ozone Depletion
Noise Pollution
Loss of Air Quality
Land Degradation
Climate Change
Loss of Water Quality
Loss of
Non-Renewable
Resources
Loss of Wetlands
Loss of Soils
GPI
Measuring Progress
Stats NZ Report on Progress Towards SD
www.stats.govt.nz/reports/sustainable-development.aspx
15 topics / 85 indicators (16 Key Indicators)
NZ Treasury Report:
Higher Living Standards
www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/research
-policy/tp/higherlivingstandards
“… goes beyond the narrow material
definition – often proxied by GDP – to
incorporate a broad range of material
and non-material factors such as
education, health and environmental
qualiity”.
OECD – Better Life Index
www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/
Thank you