2019-01-14 General Committee Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 2 - Noosa River Partnership Proposal

The Nature Conservancy


    The project will establish a number of community engagement and volunteering
    opportunities, to be determined collaboratively by project stakeholders during the
    detailed planning phase of the project. These could include:
         •   Oyster shell recycling with local restaurants, oyster growers and seafood
             suppliers
         •   Oyster gardening
         •   Fish surveys
         •   Reef construction
         •   Reef monitoring including oyster settlement surveys
The concurrent delivery of community volunteering and engagement activities is an
important component of reef restoration, helping to foster a high level of support and long
term stewardship amongst the local community and estuary-dependent businesses.
Volunteering also helps to reduce costs associated with reef construction and monitoring
and strengthens community support for the Project and other related estuary management
activites. Community volunteering and engagement activites will include regular public
information nights, seminars and consultation.

    4. Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
    During the planning phase of the project a comprehensive Monitoring, Evaluation and
    Reporting framework will be developed to support the project. This includes:
       Clear articulation of the project’s goals, targets, objectives, monitoring and reporting
       methodology. Stakeholder roles and responsibilities will be defined separately in the
       Project Implementation Plan.
       Project targets are defined under five ecological and social categories, each with a
       number of associated measures:
        •    Shellfish- assessment of density, growth and survival of the ecosystem engineer,
             S. glomerata
        •    Biodiversity - assessment of increase in marine life and biomass
        •    Fish- assessment of increase in desired fish species and biomass
        •    Reef Integrity- assessment of structural features of the reef including height,
             shape and stability
        •    Social-economic- assessment of social outcomes including volunteering, job
             creation, community support.
       The project’s annual progress will be reported in digestible, community friendly
       project report cards. A more detailed technical monitoring report and annual project
       report will also be developed.




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