NRT

The National Reporting Toolkit is an online system, using templates to generate reports, which will increase the ease with which countries generate, verify and publish data, information and knowledge on the State of the Environment. The web-based system will display information related to nationally relevant needs and issues across environmental, social and economic domains. By reducing the time it takes to complete a State of Environment Report, the toolkit aims to provide decision-makers with the most recent data and help optimise the use of Government resources to work on implementation. Phase 1 of this project, focused on Abu Dhabi, is building a proof of concept for what should be a highly replicable and scalable system that can be used by other countries at the national, regional and global level over the subsequent phases of the project.
The main purpose of the workshop is to develop a platform for various Institutions in UAE to meet and discuss the forward-looking Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) and reporting process. The workshop aims to familiarize experts with essentials about data collection including selecting the most appropriate and reliable types and sources of data and how to collect, store and analyze the data. The discussions during the workshop aim to address these issues, with particular focus on statistics and spatial data collection, within the DPSIR indicators framework. It also aims at identifying the main national and local data vendors and sources, data acquisition and custodianship and methods for accessing and interacting with international community such as UNEP-live. The workshop will be used as a platform to review and discuss with all partners the mandated reporting obligations of each Emirate. During the workshop, a core agreeable list of indicators will be selected to be implemented in target institutions– including indicators to be implemented in NRT in subsequent workshops that will be conducted in synchronization with the development of the NRT system.