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

                                                                                                          Source of   Assessment and
#   Prompt                        Notes
                                                                                                          information recommendations.
    monitoring where              MER Plan don’t explicitly address legacy but there is evidence that     MER Plan    Monitoring of project legacy
    appropriate) e.g. site        legacy has been considered in the overall project design through:       (various)   (impacts) should be
    management, ongoing                                                                                               addressed by incorporating
                                         Partnering arrangements with Noosa Council (A5);
    monitoring, knowledge and                                                                                         recommendations for
    skills transfer post the             Engagement and capacity building with community                             ongoing monitoring as part
    current project?                      volunteers (A3);                                                            of the final project report,
                                                                                                                      when the performance of
                                         Scientific support (prior projects, current project roles,
                                                                                                                      the current project and its
                                          TAG oversight) (various); and
                                                                                                                      MER are known and future
                                         Promotion of the project for ongoing support and funding                    resources and capability
                                          (A5.7).                                                                     better understood
                                                                                                                      (Recommendation 2).
                                  Monitoring of project impacts beyond the life of the current
                                  project has not been addressed. This is best addressed by
                                  incorporating recommendations for ongoing monitoring as part of
                                  the final project report, when the performance of the current
                                  project and its MER are known and future resources and capability
                                  better understood.
5   Have appropriate national     The Project Plan commits to meeting a range of best practice            Project     Met
    and international standards   standards including:                                                    Plan and
    for the project and its MER                                                                           MER Plan
                                  Restoration guidelines for shellfish reefs (Fitzsimons et al., 2019);
    been identified                                                                                       (various)
                                  National standards for the practice of ecological restoration in
                                  Australia (Standards Reference Group SERA, 2018);
                                  International principles and standards for the practice of
                                  ecological restoration (Gann et al., 2019);
                                  Best practice oyster restoration and the Society for Ecological
                                  Restoration (SER) global guidelines;
                                  Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (Conservation
                                  Measures Partnership, 2013); and



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