Assessment and reporting
Reporting
Over the course of the Rio+20 programme of activities, ICSU constantly updated its website and released news stories and information via social media. Information on all of ICSU's Rio+20 activities and their results has now been brought together in a final project report.
ICSU's Rio+20 End of Project Report:
Assessment
In order to fully assess its work for Rio+20, ICSU asked a consultancy firm (Firetail, based in the UK) to conduct surveys and interviews with key Rio+20 stakeholders, to determine their perceptions of ICSU's impact. International policy work is a complex arena with many actors and few direct cause-and-effect links, which makes it difficult to determine the successes and limitations of a programme of work, especially one as broad and far reaching as ICSU's activities for Rio+20. A study of this kind greatly helps to tease out strengths and weaknesses in the work programme, and offers ICSU concrete recommendations on which to build for its future work in science for policy. ICSU is now working towards many of the recommendations in the report, including a greater focus on policy work at the national level, making direct contact with policy-makers and building on ICSU's communications activities.
Firetail evaluation of ICSU's Rio+20 programme:
