D2.5 – Scenarios and MUV Key Performance Indicators

The MUV impact assessment framework (see D7.1) envisages three types of indicators: impact indicators (measuring the impacts generated by MUV), ​context indicators (providing information describing the geographical context of interest, i.e. the neighbourhood/the city), and ​process indicators (for the purpose of MUV process evaluation). MUV context indicators have been detailed in D7.5, while MUV process indicators and the first results stemming from MUV process evaluation will be presented in D7.4, and finally exposed in D7.6. This deliverable is focused on MUV impact indicators. In more detail, this document firstly presents the ​common set of MUV impact indicators​, used by all the pilots to measure the impacts of MUV measure on four impact areas: Society-People, Society-Governance, Economy, and Environment. The choice and the selection of MUV impact indicators has followed a co-creation process, that involved different stakeholders, i.e. the consortium partners, the pilot managers and the representatives of the six involved municipalities.
This work led to a set of 40 indicators (about ten per impact area), which can still evolve during the course of the project. A detailed description of each indicator is provided in ‘MUV impact indicators definition sheets’ in Annex 1, where for each indicator it is possible to find its definition, its formula, its unit of measurement, its frequency of computation, and its data source. Moreover, this deliverable connects to the work performed within Task 2.2, in which the MUV partners have been asked to complete a theory of change framework. The theory of change description for each pilot, reported in D2.2, gives us the opportunity to link the specific priority objectives of each pilot to some MUV impact indicators, that can be considered of higher relevance with respect to the others depending on the objective defined in each pilot and on the scenarios co-created by the stakeholders in each pilot. Therefore, this deliverable also contains an attempt to provide guidance to the local stakeholders in understanding the relevance of some impact indicators, not only with respect to MUV future goals and long term impacts, but also with respect to more concrete and measurable impacts, related to outputs and outcomes.