Is it necessary to have targets for all common indicators?
No. It is not necessary to set targets for all indicators. As noted in the EC Guidance document on Monitoring and Evaluation, quantified targets “shall be set for a limited number of common and or programme-specific indicators at the level of investment priority and category of region. Limited means in this context that not all indicators need to be linked with a target value”. The only exceptions are the YEI result indicators (both immediate and longer-term) all of which are required to have associated targets.