Examples of indicators
Types of indicators
Indicators can measure activity, outputs, outcomes or impacts. Impacts are generally hardest to measure. Activities are usually the easiest. But which are most important to assess?
Examples of indicators
- Number of people trained by the project each year
- Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex
- Number of farmers that are making their own compost at six months after participation in the project.
- Number of farmers using their homemade compost six months after participation in the training
- Number of youths that have a job within six months after participation in the project (or could be Percentage of youths that have a job within six months after participation in the project).
- Percentage of households in the village that eat a nutritionally diverse diet.
- Quality of jobs applications produced by youth that participated in the project
- Increase in household income of beekeepers trained by the project in the year following the training course.
- Satisfaction of participants (or customers)
- Vitamin A deficiency in preschool children
- National recycling rate, tons of material recycled
- Number of people nourished per hectare
- Number of trees planted since project began
- Number of people adopting new practices