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To Inform Metric Selection, the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) Needs to

• Strengthen enduring partner capabilities for biorisk management
• Strengthen enduring partner capabilities for biosurveillance.

These Objectives Can Be Placed into a Conceptual Framework Built on Logical Models

• Logic models establish the sequence from program inputs to activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts.
• Separate logic models were developed for biosafety, biosecurity, and biosurveillance, each addressing capacities, capabilities, and sustainability enablers.

This Framework Can Be Used to Identify a Candidate Measures

• Using these models, an initial list of some 300 metrics was identified from the literature. This list was scored and winnowed down into those metrics that scored most strongly in multiple dimensions.
• Two final lists of recommended metrics emerged, one for use now, one for later introduction.

The Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) is the biological threat component of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program. It grew out of efforts to address risks associated with legacy biological agents, related materials, and technical expertise developed as part of the biological weapon program in the former Soviet Union. CBEP now partners with about 20 countries in different regions around the world and works with them to address diverse threats to international security, including terrorist organizations seeking to acquire pathogens of security concern; human, animal, and agricultural facilities operating with inadequate safety and security safeguards; and the spread of diseases with potential security or economic consequences. As the program has evolved since its inception two decades ago, so too have its content and approaches to performance measurement. The objective of the research reported here was to build on existing work to develop a comprehensive evaluation framework and recommend metrics for assessing and communicating progress toward CBEP's goals. The report ultimately recommends a number of qualitative and quantitative indicators of CBEP performance, some that can be implemented immediately, some to be implemented later.

• Chapter One

  Introduction and Background

• Chapter Two

  Using a Conceptual Framework to Identify Metrics for CBEP

• Chapter Three

  Conceptual Model and Recommended Metrics for Biorisk Management

• Chapter Four

  Conceptual Model and Recommended Metrics for Biosurveillance

• Chapter Five

  Implementing the Recommended Metrics Framework

• Chapter Six

  Aggregating Proposed Metrics to Report on CBEP Performance to Support Decisionmaking at Several Levels

• Chapter Seven

  Conclusions and Next Steps

• Appendix A

  Implementation Information for Proposed Metrics — Aligned to Logic Model Framework

• Appendix B

  Implementation Information for Proposed Metrics — Aligned to Functional Framework