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I want to measure the impacts of my initiative on governance… 
…by assessing its impact on power dynamics

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Aggregate indicator title

Power dynamics within CS initiative 

Description

Control and influence over the issue in focus of the citizen observatory 

Domain

Governance

Qualitative/Quantitative

Quantitative & Qualitative

Primary/Secondary data

Primary & Secondary data

Source of data

Primary: Project partners, participants

Secondary: Project documentations (reports, information on websites, publications etc.); Online repositories (e.g. Science Direct, Google Scholar, etc.)

Time series

Yes, ex ante and ex post

Unit of measurement (observation)

Absolute values & nominal

Unit of analysis

Stakeholder groups & publications

Analytical level (logic model)

Context, input, process, output, outcome, impact

Links with indicators in other domains

N/A 

Data collection method(s)

Interviews with members of the initiative and non-members stakeholders; review of project documentations (reports, log-books, etc.); analysis of the initiative tools (platforms, Apps, etc.); literature review

Data collection item(s)

Interview questions are available but too elaborate to add here

Indicator building

Revenue stream

  • The (envisioned) revenue stream(s) that help cover the expenses for running the CO

Access to and control over data

  • Access restrictions to the data for different stakeholder groups
  • The procedures for storing, quality control, visualization of the data (Data Management Plan and policies)

Authority and power

  • The level of influence/impact of each stakeholder on the results of the decision making processes regarding the environmental problem in focus
  • Change in the level of authority and power of each stakeholder as result of participation in the CO

Impact indicators

  • Percentage of budget documents, of budget revenue documents, procurement and natural resource concessions publicly available and easily accessible in open data format
  • Turnout as a share of voting-age population in national election
Availability of data

Low

Feasibility

Resource demanding 

Comments/caveats

The indicator building cell includes both outcome and impact indicators

Source of indicator definition

Wehn et al. (2017, 2019, 2020)