2020-07-07 P&E Agenda - Item 3 - Attachment 1 - TNC Project Management Plan

Targets, goals and objectives
The development of the monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER) process follows a MER framework as outlined
in
Figure 4: Framework of monitoring, evaluation and reporting process for TNC shellfish restoration projects, which
follows the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Definitions of MER level terminology is show on the
left and an example of each.

At the highest level, there are broad restoration targets with goals and objectives which hierarchically convey the
objectives of the project. Each target can have multiple goals and objective. Each objective can have at least one
indicator (but potentially more) that assesses whether the objective has been met. Thus, each target could have
single or multiple goals that can be outlined by single or multiple objectives that are in turn measured by single
or multiple indicators, with each indicator being measured by a specific method. The process outlined here is
derived from the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation 15.




Figure 4: Framework of monitoring, evaluation and reporting process for TNC shellfish restoration projects,
which follows the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Definitions of MER level terminology is show
on the left and an example of each on the right




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     http://cmp-openstandards.org/

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