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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    Guidelines

    Guidance on other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs)

    The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in 2022, provides a framework for the effective implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through four goals and 23 targets. Target 3 (known as the ‘30x30 target’) calls on Parties to conserve at least 30% of terrestrial, inland waters, and coastal and marine areas by 2030. These guidelines are designed to promote good practices relating to identifying, reporting, monitoring and strengthening OECMs. They are intended for use by a wide range of rightsholders and stakeholders to promote understanding of whether a site meets the CBD criteria for identifying an OECM, how to report OECM data at the national and global levels, and how to monitor and strengthen OECMs.

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    IUCN WCPA Technical Note No. 23: Integrating Justice into Restoration Practice

    Technical note aiming to provide evidence-based guidance for deepening the incorporation of social justice objectives into restoration projects, including those located in and around protected and conserved areas. In particular, there is strong evidence that highly inclusive and respectful practices - especially those involving local leadership - lead to better ecological and social outcomes. This technical note aims to bridge that gap by summarising lessons learned about promoting just restoration and highlighting opportunities and tools to facilitate these efforts.

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    Quando a Regeneração Natural é uma solução eficaz para restaurar a floresta?

    A regeneração natural é uma solução eficaz quando a área teve baixa intensidade de uso do solo e está próxima de fragmentos florestais, garantindo a chegada de sementes e sucessão sem grandes entraves. É necessário o reconhecimento e aplicação de indicadores e valores de referência para avaliar e monitorar a efetividade da regeneração natural como estratégia de restauração de ecossistemas e de provisão de serviços ecossistêmicos.