La confection des tableaux de bord : réflexions préliminaires sur l'évaluation de l'efficacité de l'action financière des agences de l'eau

Indicator schedule making: preliminary reflection about the efficiency assessment of the french water agencies financial action

Agence de l'eau, Seine-Normandie

Abstract

The efficiency assessment of the french water agencies financial action on water environment and public health is not only a simple technical problem as "how to convert elementary data into indicator?". Actually this question is quickly supplanted by the organisational one "who are the participants involved and on which agreement are they ready to come?". But the policy management will define each organisation's way of working, which is guided by its own interest. The complete innocent thinks the general interest should federate the action at every level: that's not the case because the final objectives are often contradietory. A few examples will show that a single indicator schedule is not relevant and that the lack of scientific knowledge is the cause of difficulties.