By contrast, a coastal fisheries development project in Lae, PNG, used a series of indicators to monitor progress. One objective was to increase export of fish to markets outside of Lae. Health planners have used targets to assess public health management for many years. These are invaluable in gaining public and financial support to continue making progress. At present, these sorts of target graphs are absent from environmental action plans and country development schemes.
Simple targets can provide complex interactive information about people's behavior.
A community giant clam sanctuary in the Kingdom of Tonga set a specific goal for the community. Nobody should take the giant clams from the sanctuary. It was an easily measured goal as a person from the village could simply count the giant clams periodically to see if they all remained. Targets are worthless without monitoring. Because of the expense of monitoring, the best targets are ones the people who are involved can measure themselves.