Volume 3 nr 1 / 2011 - Academia Oamenilor de Stiinta din Romania

98 Andrei Szuder(human, financial, material, organizational or regulatory) mobilized during theproject.Monitoring of indicators of resources is necessary to have a fair picture of thesituation the resources in each phase of the project. Examples of resourcesindicators are: number of people necessary to implement the project, the amountof material resources allocated to achieve the results.Resources are the joint responsibility of funding authorities, which allocate, andbeneficiary who implement them.Output indicators,Output indicators are indicators of efficiency of the project and represent the wayto measure goods and services produced within the project in relation to resourcesused, Fig.1. Output indicators represent the product of the project activities andare correlated with them. Outputs are normally the responsibility of projectmanager who should report regularly on their achievement through the monitoringproject system.Output indicators can be measured in physical (number of students whose trainingwas paid by the project, number of unemployed retrained, kilometers of roadsconstructed) or monetary units.Outcome indicatorsOutcome indicators are result indicators is show how to measure the effectivenessand impact of the project, direct and immediate benefits and advantages for theproject target group and are related to the project objectives. Fig1.These indicators can provide information about changes in behavior, ability orperformance of direct beneficiaries. They can be physical (time reduction toproduce goods and transport times) or may be economic / financial (decrease ofthe production costs and transport).Outcome indicators are generally quantified during monitoring and provideinformation on changes that occur for the direct beneficiaries, such as number ofnew skills acquired through training courses organized under the project activitiesor usability share of newly developed production capacity.In the strategic plans of the ministries they are indicators for policy results [6].Impact indicators (impact)Impact indicators present the indirect and long-term consequences of the projectand represent the consequences of the project beyond the direct and immediateinteraction with the beneficiaries of the project [4].There are two types of impact indicators.Copyright © Editura Academiei Oamenilor de Știință din România, 2011Watermark Protected