Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are key components of restoration projects. They are crucial for ensuring adequate implementation, tracking progress, demonstrating impact, and enabling adaptive management. M&E provides essential data for making informed decisions and ultimately ensuring the success of the Ecosystem Restoration Integrated Program (ERIP).

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Why M&E Matters

M&E provides evidence of how restoration efforts in the 20 ERIP countries contribute to climate mitigation, enhance biodiversity, and support sustainable development, ensuring that projects deliver social, economic, and environmental benefits.

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ERIP’s role & strategy

ERIP's role is to ensure alignment of the 20 countries with the program's objectives and goals. This includes providing guidance on M&E processes and tools to facilitate harmonized tracking and reporting of results and capture of program-wide achievements through Core and Program-level Indicators.

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Our Vision for Success

- Countries data informs decision-making, learning and continuous improvement of restoration efforts. 

- ERIP impact demonstrated through Program-level Indicators providing comprehensive evidence on how the program contributes to improved policy, governance, coordination, finance, knowledge and stakeholder engagement.  

- ERIP's Core Indicators track how restoration projects benefit ecosystems, including climate mitigation. 

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