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

 How the scores are calculated
 The restoration score is calculated by comparing indicators (underlying the restoration targets) to defined
 benchmarks (see appendix 1). From this the results are classified into scores depending on how the results of
 the metric measures up against the benchmark (https://ecoreportcard.org/the-process/)




 The trend for each indicator is also evaluated, where applicable, to understand if the indicator is increasing or
 decreasing. An indicator’s trend will receive a ‘No Data’ categorisation with only one sampling event as a
 trendline through a single point is meaningless.




 Scores and trends are combined into an overarching score for each target and an overall score. All scores are
 evaluated against the Restoration Index. The region-wide scores are derived by combining the site-based
 scores for each restoration target.

Figure 8: How score and trend is calculated and categorized.


Reporting
The evaluation products will be used to produce three reporting documents able to be communicated to
stakeholders as per the Project Communication Plan. Project reporting products to be developed are described
below and in Financial and audited annual reports will be provided to project funders in line with requirements
specified within contracts. This includes cumulative expenditure reports (due 10 business days after
predetermined dates annually) and audited annual reports for each financial year expenditure (due within 3
months after the end of financial year). Each of these reports will provide a summary of outputs and progress



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