Australian Government Natural Resource Management Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement Framework
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
April 2008
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About this document
This Natural Resource Management Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement Framework (MERI Framework) is a broad, overarching document. It provides a generic framework for monitoring, evaluating, reporting on and improving Australia’s approach to managing key assets. The key asset classes in the natural resource management (NRM) context include human, social, natural, physical and financial assets. At the program level, evaluation strategies will be developed to provide details for implementing the MERI Framework.
Monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement are integral components of NRM programs. These activities provide approaches to assess the impact, appropriateness, effectiveness, efficiency and legacy of policies and programs and a process to promote accountability.
The purpose of the MERI Framework is twofold. It:
- explains the overarching conceptual framework for evaluating NRM programs with an emphasis on learning, improvement and accountability
- is intended to guide the development and implementation of program-level and investment-level evaluation plans.
This MERI Framework revises and replaces the 2003 National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. It retains the general intent and many of the key concepts of the 2003 framework. The National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Standards and Targets Framework (2003) is also replaced. Some sections of that framework are incorporated in this MERI Framework.
A separate document, Natural Resource Management Assets and Indicators, supports this document to guide implementation of the framework. Appropriate indicators and methods of measurement are continually being developed. Consequently, the Natural Resource Management Assets and Indicators will be a version-controlled living document rather than a static framework. A separate guide to target setting will be completed in 2008.
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