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RESTORING ECOSYSTEMS

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Level: Intermediate | Estimated completion time: 2 hours | Certificate upon completion

Skills: Designing monitoring and evaluation plans, tracking restoration outcomes, applying adaptive management

Want to ensure your restoration efforts deliver real, lasting results? This journey explores how monitoring and evaluation (M&E) can transform restoration from a one-time intervention into a continuous, learning-driven process. You’ll learn how to track progress, measure outcomes, adapt strategies, and engage stakeholders — all while ensuring that your efforts are both effective and equitable.

Task 1: Understanding monitoring vs. evaluation
Task 2: Characteristics
of M&E
Task 3: Steps of M&E
Task 4: The 5-star recovery system
Task 5: GESI in M&E
Stop and check 1
Task 6: Adaptive
management
Task 7: Components of adaptive management
Task 8: Case study
Stop and check 2
Task 9: Importance of learning
Task 10: Channels for knowledge-sharing
Final test
Certificate of completion

Additional Resources

Strategy
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Strategy and Action Plan (UNEP)
This document outlines UNEP’s monitoring and evaluation strategy for systematic learning, reporting, and capacity building across its projects and programmes.
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Report
Evaluation of UNDP Support to Ecosystem Management and Biodiversity Conservation (UNDP)
This document is the first global independent evaluation of UNDP’s ecosystem and biodiversity efforts from 2018–2024, with lessons for future M&E.
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Toolkit
Special Programme Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning Toolkit (UNEP)
This toolkit is designed to guide funding recipients through the project monitoring and reporting processes indicated in UNEP’s monitoring and evaluation strategy.
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Guide
Evaluation Guidelines (UNDP)
This document is a comprehensive manual covering M&E planning, evaluation criteria, and the use of findings for UNDP programming decisions.
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Guide
Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM): User Guide (UNEP, FAO)
This document offers step-by-step instructions for using the FERM registry, geospatial platform, and search engine.
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Website
Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (UN)
The official monitoring platform for tracking global progress and disseminating good practices for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
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Technical note
Opportunities and Challenges for Monitoring Ecosystem Restoration In Protected and Conserved Areas (IUCN WCPA)
This publication raises awareness of the challenges and solutions for monitoring ecosystem restoration in and around protected and conserved areas.
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Report
Global Indicators for Monitoring Ecosystem Restoration (UNEP, FAO)
This publication presents standardised indicators to track restoration progress globally.
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Publication
Tools and Applications for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (UN, GIZ)
This study analyses 11 free digital tools for ecosystem restoration monitoring— their functionalities, technical requirements and usability.
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