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EU Social Progress Index How measurement is translated successfully into policy

Strategic Planning

• Make policy – new Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy

(RSES)

• Provide oversight – statutory observations on local

authority development plans and variations

How does EMRA enable regional development;

WHA T WEDO?

EU Affairs

• Manage funds– Regional Operational Programmes and

Monitoring Committees

• Provide supports – Committee of the Regions and Irish

Regions Office in Brussels

Effectiveness in Local Government

• Promote co-ordination– between EU/ National/

Regional and local governance

• Develop knowledge – Research and evidence

base for implementation and monitoring

Enabling Regional Planning & Sustainable Development

Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy 2031

Regional Strategic Outcomes aligned with UN, EU and NPF The need to enhance climate resilience and to accelerate a transition to a low carbon society recognising the role

• f natural capital and

ecosystem services in achieving this.

Issues Paper

• Initial consultation period

between 20th November, 2017 and 16th February 2018

• High level document to inform

submissions and frame debate www.emra.ie/rses

• Regional profile and evidence

baseline informed the identification of strategic issues and key questions www.emra.ie/maps

Focus of study

• Environment sub-component of Foundations of

Wellbeing EU-SPI focus

• Unsure of the EU-SPI’s Environmental Quality

indicator

• Ireland still faces challenges or EU infringements

in implementing a number of directives.

• The areas where compliance needs to improve include

Drinking Water, Urban Waste Water Treatment, River Basin District Plans and Special Areas of Conservation

• In-depth analysis of the Environmental Quality

component of EU-SPI

Environmental Quality component EU-SPI

• In-depth analysis of the Environmental Quality component of EU-SPI
• Policymakers needed to go into much more details than the NUTS2 data to

draft the RSES.

• However, the EU-SPI provides a different type of information in that it allows

a comparison with other regions

• In our context the EU-SPI does not give such

detailed data that it can be used to run a specific policy

• EU-SPI useful at the strategy-making stage of

the policy-making cycle

Case Studies

Usefulness of the EU-SPI

• EU-SPI can draw attention to the social/environmental

areas where the region is underperforming

• It is a benefit that the EU-SPI is aligned (conceptually)

with some SDGs

• Ease of communicating with the public - EU-SPI could

contribute showcase the role of regions.

• EU-SPI could be a means for the region or other actors

to receive EU funding for specific weaknesses.

Assessment of the EU-SPI’s data

• The scorecard allows to see the

main issues. The stakeholders found it very well presented

• Environmental indicators do not

cover sufficiently the local information, e.g wastewater treatment is very local-based, similarly air stations tend to be set in urban areas

• The foreseen timeliness of about 2

years is considered good by the policymakers

Suggested improvements

• Different indicators related to the quality of the

environment in Ireland

• There are better robust data available
• Over- reliance on self-reported indicators
• Suggested indicators include: wastewater treatment, air-

borne nitrates, the share of green areas in the region, access to open spaces and parks and the share of the region dedicated to natural habitat, biodiversity indicators, indicators related to commuting.

• Better visualization e.g download maps and infographics