MERI for Caring for our Country
An important part of the Caring for our Country initiative is the commitment to establishing simple, efficient, reliable and cost-effective mechanisms for measuring and reporting on outcomes from Caring for our Country investment.
The monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement (MERI) of Caring for our Country is a fundamental part of the investment process and has been planned for in the design of programs and their projects in line with the NRM MERI Framework.
The Australian Government is taking a strategic approach to measuring achievements of Caring for our Country investment, and this will occur through a MERI strategy.
The key challenges are:
- to report against a set of national Caring for our Country five year outcomes through investment at a landscape scale by a range of service providers
- to gather information about biophysical and non-biophysical assets that will assist our investment prioritisation
- to support learning and improvement in the design and delivery of Caring for our Country
- to develop ways to collect the information so that it can be readily used for the annual report card.
The MERI Strategy
Measuring and reporting on Caring for Our Country outcomes, and learning from what we do, will occur through a MERI strategy. The strategy will be released mid-2009 after consultation with stakeholders.
The strategy has four components:
- monitoring, evaluating and reporting on program performance
- monitoring and reporting on the state and trend of biophysical and non-biophysical assets, both at the point of investment and at a broader scale
- governance or contractual reporting
- program improvement and sharing knowledge and information.
What's new
Developing and using program logic in NRM: user guide
Outlines a step-by-step process for developing program logic in the context of natural resource management.
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