WHY MEASURING AND MONITORING IS IMPORTANT Lars Laestadius 20 October 2015 [email protected] Image: Flickr/USAID Kenya.

WHY MEASURING AND MONITORING IS IMPORTANT

Lars Laestadius20 October [email protected]

Image: Flickr/USAID Kenya

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Measuring and monitoring

Very important

But what we really need is

Good information systems

To unlock and guide investment

Many communities claim ownership

"Monitoring" Measuring over time

M&A

M&E

MRV

Etc.

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Monitoring can have have different objects

International / global

National

Subnational

Landscape / watershed

Project

Household / farm

Monitoring can have different objectives

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To learn and motivate

To unlock investment

To target interventions

To manage and adapt

To report

The playing field of “monitoring”

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Level

Purpose

Learn and motivate

Unlock investment

Target interventions

Manage and adapt Report

Household/farm

Project

Landscape/watershed

Subnational

National

International/global

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Level

Purpose

Learn and motivate

Unlock investment

Target interventions

Manage and adapt Report

Household/farm

Project

Landscape/watershed

Subnational

National

International/global

The playing field of “monitoring”

Information

Resources

Investors

Drylands

Resources will not flow unless information flows

Investors

Drylands

Monitoring Analysis Delivery

More than monitoring is needed

Investors

Drylands

Monitoring should be demand driven

Monitoring

Analysis

Terrorism

Analysis

Hunger

Analysis

Refugees

Analysis

Livelihoods

Analysis

Profits

Toward a drylands information system

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Level

Purpose

Learn and motivate

Unlock investment

Target interventions

Manage and adapt Report

Household/farm

Project

Landscape/watershed

Subnational

National

International/global

Where is the focus of the

drylands community?