and the influence of such analysis on eventual decisions. Outcome 1. Availability of Consistent and Reliable Environmental Data Indicators Baseline Target(end of Risks and Assumptions project) 1. Availability of Environment data in A Unified 1. Pakistan Bureau of 1. An agreement adequate, Pakistan is Collection, Statistics between Climate consistent, fragmented. Storage and 2. Feedback from Pak Change Division, Pak reliable and Different Access System for EPA and other EPA and Pakistan data on organizations tend to Primary Data stakeholders Bureau of Statistics on Pakistan's generate and use managed by 3. Revised and environment data Environment their respective data Pakistan Bureau improved/new gathering and reporting that is seldom widely of Statistics protocols for reforms/improvements. shared. Relatively gathering and 2. An agreement more comprehensive reporting between Bureau of data is gathered environmental data Statistics, its Pakistan Bureau of 4. Component reports counterpart in Statistics, but it is of the agencies Provinces, and the incomplete. There gathering and agencies gathering are also often reporting primary primary data questions as to the data to Bureau of reliability off data. Statistics. 2. Quality and The quality and Quality assurance 1. Project progress An agreement and reliability of reliability of data, tools are reports; effective collaboration environment including for developed and 2. Review of data between provincial data environment, in pilot tested in 4 reported by the EPAs responsible for Pakistan is often agencies participating agencies coordinating the questioned. gathering primary related output and the Sometimes it is a environment data target data gathering question of each in Punjab agencies. These perception stemming and KPK. agencies will need to from variability have the motivation to introduced by participate in what may variation in sourcing, otherwise appear other times the marginal to their main concern is real. stream operation Limited work, if much, has been done in the past to address
and the influence of such analysis on eventual decisions. Outcome 1. Availability of Consistent and Reliable Environmental Data Indicators Baseline Target(end of project) Risks and Assumptions 1. Availability of adequate, consistent, reliable and data on Pakistan's Environment Environment data in Pakistan is fragmented. Different organizations tend to generate and use their respective data that is seldom widely shared. Relatively more comprehensive data is gathered Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, but it is incomplete. There are also often questions as to the reliability off data. A Unified Collection, Storage and Access System for Primary Data managed by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics 1. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics 2. Feedback from Pak EPA and other stakeholders 3. Revised and improved/new protocols for gathering and reporting environmental data 4. Component reports of the agencies gathering and reporting primary data to Bureau of Statistics. 1. An agreement between Climate Change Division, Pak EPA and Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on environment data gathering and reporting reforms/improvements. 2. An agreement between Bureau of Statistics, its counterpart in Provinces, and the agencies gathering primary data 2. Quality and reliability of environment data The quality and reliability of data, including for environment, in Pakistan is often questioned. Sometimes it is a question of perception stemming from variability introduced by variation in sourcing, other times the concern is real. Limited work, if much, has been done in the past to address Quality assurance tools are developed and pilot tested in 4 agencies gathering primary environment data each in Punjab and KPK. 1. Project progress reports; 2. Review of data reported by the participating agencies An agreement and effective collaboration between provincial EPAs responsible for coordinating the related output and the target data gathering agencies. These agencies will need to have the motivation to participate in what may otherwise appear marginal to their main stream operation
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