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Open SPP FAQsIdentifying your sustainability goals and tracking progress
In this section, we explain how to set sustainability goals for your organization, and how to track them using indicators in a sample Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) framework. This framework includes sample tracking indicators to facilitate reporting and measuring progress against sustainability goals.
What are Goals, Outcomes, and Indicators?
The sample M&E framework is structured around goals, outcomes and indicators. It can be used to inspire your own M&E framework development, and should be adapted according to your specific needs.
The sample M&E framework provides guidance on information needed to measure each indicator, a proposed method for measuring it, and options to record the needed data. Below you can see an example from the table.
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The structure presented on the table above can be used within your organization to set your own goals, outcomes and indicators across your prioritized procurement areas. For additional examples, we have developed a full sample M&E Framework, linked below.
Sample M&E frameworkDeveloping goals, outcomes, and indicators requires a proper understanding of what you are trying to achieve, and how. Our sample M&E framework helps you to think through how to set and track practical, specific, and measurable goals, outcomes, and indicators.
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Open data & measuring progress
- Open Contracting Partnership. 2021. Green Flags: How open data can throw light on sustainable procurement.
- World Bank Group. 2021. Green Public Procurement: An overview of green reforms in country procurement systems (Pages 24-28).
- Government of Ireland. 2021. Green Tenders: Action Plan on Green Public Procurement.
- European Commission. 2022. EU GPP Criteria.
In 2005, the Ministry of Environment in the Republic of Korea enacted the “Act on Promotion of Purchase of Green Products”, and, since then, has created five-year “Action Plans for the Promotion of Purchase of Green Products.”
Two key indicators are monitored: the number of public organizations that submit a GPP plan and performance report, and the purchase of green products (specifically the units and expenditure on ecolabelled products purchased and the proportion of that to total expenditure). The purchase of green products is linked to the products certified by the Korean ecolabel, and it is measured to monitor progress against the plan’s objective of minimizing CO2 emissions.
The Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI) has been appointed the responsible authority for managing the reporting and monitoring system. In order to do this, data is gathered from three different platforms: the centralized e-procurement platform KONEPS; the de-centralised online purchase platform Green Market; and the e-monitoring platform “Green Products Information Platform'' (GPIP), created for procurement authorities to upload required data from de-centralised procurement processes. To incentivize performance, Korea provides an annual performance bonus to local governments, public organizations and local public organizations based on their GPP ratio to local spending, and GPP growth rate.