During the second phase of implementation of a PEI programme, countries focus on developing environment, poverty-environment and environment-sector indicators. They work to strengthen capacity for data collection and management and collaborate closely with national statistics office and other stakeholders to the efforts with existing monitoring systems.

A number of reviews, methodologies, tools and examples from countries can be used as reference.

Reviews and introductory documents

• Poverty — Environment Indicators, Environmental Economics Series, Paper No. 84, Priya Shyamsundar, World Bank, January 2002
• A Review of Monitoring Mechanisms for National Sustainable Development Strategies, Barry Dalal-Clayton and Steve Bass, IIED, 2006
• Poverty-Conservation Mapping: The Geography of Poverty and Biodiversity, IUCN, 2004
• Poverty-Environment Indicators, UNDP-UNEP PEI, 2008

Methodologies and tools

• Indicators for Environmental Monitoring in International Development Cooperation, Including examples for sectors covered by the Sida EIA guidelines, SIDA, June 2002
• Handbook on Environment Statistics, ADB, 2002     
• UNEP GEO Data Portal
• FAO Statistics Portal

Examples from countries

• Poverty-Environment Indicators and Strategy for Monitoring Them within the Framework of the EDPRS, Rwanda Environmental Management Authority (REMA), 2007
• The Development of Indicators of Poverty-Environment Linkages, the United Republic of Tanzania, 2005
• Etude pilote pour une cartographie des relations entre Pauvreté et Environnement - Phase I, CGIS-UNR, UNDP, CEA-SURF, 2003
• Poverty and Environment: Measuring the links, a Study of Poverty-Environment Indicators with Case Studies from Nepal, Nicaragua and Uganda, DFID, 2002
• Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, WRI, 2007