Baseline Analysis Tool
Tool

Main features and components

The baseline analysis tool comprises between 6 and 8 main steps designed to:

• Create adequate working and communication structures

• Get the relevant stakeholders on board and provide them with basic information on the EID project

• Acquire and interpret information and data on industrial parks and on their relationship with the main actors of the industrial sectors (public authorities, single companies)

• Develop a preliminary strategy

• Discuss, revise and decide the strategy together with the stakeholders in a participatory approach

• Design a work plan (and eventually establish an EID-team)

• Create a strategy for the partner, to continue to use the baseline for his own strategy

Implementation / work steps

The baseline analysis tool comprises between 6 and 8 main steps:

• Definition of the scope of the baseline analysis with the partner

• Information of stakeholders

• Training of the interviewer

• Data collection

• Assessment and consolidation

• Dispersion and publication of the main results

• Consultation of stakeholders

• First Work Plan

Requirements

• Companies submit self-monitoring reports to the environmental authority and the administration of the Industrial Area

• Self-monitoring reports are accessible

• The tool can be adapted to other frameworks and conditions, if self-monitoring reports of companies or equal data sources are not available

Lessons learnt

Positive driving factors identified during the application of the tool by PEZA (Philippines Economic Zone Authority) are:

• Strong local implementing structure and industrial associations

• Engaged administration of the Industrial Area

• Comprehensive strategy and baseline data available

• Stakeholders involved

Obstacles hampering implementation:

• No or only few data already fed into database

• Inconsistent Self-Monitoring Reports of companies

• Self-monitoring reports of companies not regularly submitted

Output

• Eco-Zone Profile (General information, local PEZA structure, characterization of key actors, EID-profile Eco-Zone, EID- Profile locators
• Outline of EID-strategy (priority fields for action, gap assessment)
• Tentative work plan and project team