Changes to Policies and Legislation

The indicator shows the impact of an intervention’s lobbying / campaigning on changing the targeted disaster risk management policies. These can be, for example, a national disasters management act that mandates setting up local disaster management bodies and the provision of state funding.

Determine the indicator’s value using the following methodology:

1) Define when the policy / policies that you focus on can be considered as “accepted and implemented”. This can be, for example, when the relevant authorities officially issued a new / changed version of the policy and allocated required funding for its implementation. You should not include verbal confirmations alone, for example, an official saying that his/her department will consider a change to this policy.

2) Use review of relevant documents (e.g. revised policies, meeting minutes, etc.) and interviews with the policy-makers and the project staff to determine:

- whether the policy was officially accepted

- whether the policy has been implemented

- the extent to which the project’s lobbying / campaigning contributed to this change

3) The indicator is met if the policy was accepted & implemented and if there is clear evidence (e.g. confirmation by a relevant stakeholder) that the project’s lobbying / campaigning contributed to this change.