2020-09-14 GC Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 2 - Independent Scientific Review of Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

    Appendix A: MERI review checklist


                                                                                                                        Source of   Assessment and
    #           Prompt                          Notes
                                                                                                                        information recommendations.
    Planning and design
    1           Are the project                 There is some confusion in terminology between the Project Plan         Project      Generally met.
                goals/objectives SMART?         and the MER Plan.                                                       Plan
                                                                                                                                     Clarify and align
                (Strategic, Measurable,
                                                The Project Plan described five project objectives (A1-A5) (pg. 18).    Pg. 10-15,   terminology between
                Appropriate, Realistic and
                                                Table 1 (pg. 10-15) provides a series of deliverables (or outputs)      18. 32       Project Plan and MER Plan
                Time bound)
                                                that relate to each of the five objectives. This section of the                      (Recommendation 1).
                                                                                                                        MER Plan
                                                project document is very operationally focussed. The project
                                                deliverables are clear and meet SMART criteria but are at the level     Pg. 68-74
                                                of outputs.
                                                The MER Plan provides additional detail in relation to Phase II of
                                                the oyster restoration project, which seems to address objectives
                                                A1-A4. Objective A5 relates to TNC providing technical and expert
                                                support to Noosa Council’s Noosa River Plan, and is not addressed
                                                in the MER Plan.
                                                The MER Plan also lists goals and objectives, but used in a different
                                                way. The goals and objectives listed in the MER are SMART.
    2           Is there an explicit program    There is not an explicit program logic but the use of the MER           MER Plan     Met
                logic or similar that clearly   terminology for TNC shellfish restoration projects (based on the        pg.59
                identifies:                     Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation)6 are reasonably
                         Outputs;


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    https://cmp-openstandards.org

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