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The Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
Framework Project
Working Together in Cumulative Effects Management October 2009
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Remember this at the end!
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• What the project is all about? • Explain Context and Scope • What we have learned? • Where we are going? the
Model • Next steps?
Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting
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What is the Integrated, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Framework Project all about? • The IMERF will provide a vision and path
forward that: • Defines principles, processes, activities,
controls and practices to support and enable a monitoring and reporting systems
• Ensures the system provides timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to diverse decision makers and the public
• Scope includes: • Air, Land, Water & Biodiversity • All parties conducting environmental
monitoring in Alberta
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Context - GOA
• Alberta’s Land-use Framework (Announced Dec 2008) • Regional Advisory Committees & Regional Plans • Seven regions, based largely on watersheds
• Need to address economic, social and environmental interests
• Regional Plans by 2010 • Lower Athabasca Regional Plan • South Saskatchewan Regional Plan
• Legislation for Land Use Framework • Alberta Land Stewardship Act
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Context - Alberta Environment
• Reviewing the ‘Way We Do Business’ • Regulatory & Approval Process • Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting System
(IMERF) a sub-system of a Knowledge/Performance Management System
• Water Allocation System • Designing, Building and Transitioning into Cumulative
Effects Management • Outcomes based • Place based • Collaborative • Adaptive - Performance management based • Comprehensive tools
• Legislation to Support Transformation • Environmental Cumulative Effects Management Act
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IMERF – activities to date
• To complete the ‘Information In’ phase, the IMERF Core Team organized around the following key activities: • Internal Workshops & targeted meetings – 9 workshops
including 225 people • Jurisdictional Review – 15 different, 3 detailed • Governance & Service Delivery Model Research • Collection of Existing Knowledge • Matrix Sub-Teams – 12 technical teams
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Information In Phase Learning's
• A comprehensive system view of Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (MER) is required.
• Long term sustainable funding and resourcing is required.
• Enhancement of partnerships and collaboration will be essential.
• MER system must be scalable to both provincial and regional knowledge needs to support environmental decision-making at all spatial scales.
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Information In Phase Learning's
• MER system must prioritize activities based on risk assessment while at the same time ensuring a certain level of continuous baseline monitoring.
• Need to identify the appropriate level and type of system integration between condition (ambient) and pressure (factors that influence condition) monitoring in the MER system.
• MER planning should be long-term, cross-media, inclusive of partners/ Ministries, and consider impacts on all MER components within the system.
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Information In Phase Learning's • Data must be relevant and linked to purpose
(i.e. support decision-making and be linked to outcomes or other clear drivers.)
• Enhanced policies and standards are required for data acquisition, automation, classification, and storage.
• Data and information accessibility and the ability to efficiently query and extract is essential.
• Increased evaluation capacity is required to support decision-making, including better modeling tools to enable forecasting.
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Information In Phase Learning's
• There is a need for enhanced reporting that is accessible and user-friendly for the public and decision-makers.
• An assurance program is required for monitoring data and the MER system as a whole to maintain data collection and reporting quality, and to outline clear consequences for non-compliance.
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So what?
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MER Planning • Integrated • Strategic • Operational
Assurance (certification/accreditation, audit, policies, standards, consequences)
Reporting
Monitoring • Build/establish
• Data collection/acquisition • Data integrity
• Data storage/archive • Data Access
Governance (others involved in monitoring, funding, enablers, roles, accountabilities)
Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting for the Environmental Pillar
Evaluation
Outcomes/Indicators: • Condition
• Thresholds • Targets • Objectives • Limits
• Pressure • Response
Adaptive Management/ Management Actions Including policy development and Delivery Tools
Proposed model
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Planning • Creates detailed course of action for all MER
system components • Achieves optimum balance of needs or demands
with available resources through risk assessment & prioritization
• Primary mechanism for the integration between spatial, temporal and media-specific processes
• Needs to occur at all levels • Integrated Planning
– Regional planning integration and interoperability • Strategic Planning
– What knowledge is required? • Operational Planning
– Detailed “study design” & monitoring network planning • Key shift in thinking—MER planning will need to
be complete before advancing to other components within the system.
• Detailed set of ‘business requirements’ developed through MER planning before proceeding.
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Monitoring • Monitoring includes:
• Build / Establish Infrastructure • Data Collection / Acquisition • Data Integrity • Data Storage • Data Accessibility
• Standardizes methods for the development of monitoring station networks and infrastructure & equipment.
• Classifies data in terms of quality and usability. • Enhances storage and archive of data sets. • Allows data to be shared, accessible and usable by
all stakeholders including government agencies (federal, provincial, local), industry, and partners outside government.
• Promotes common web-based interfaces and tools.
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Evaluation • Evaluation for Environmental Assurance (i.e.
IMERF/KPMS) • State of the Environment Condition (aka Ambient) and
Pressure (Source, Non-point source) Monitoring Data Evaluation in relation to Outcome Achievement
• Current State and Trends • Future Scenario Modeling
• Management Response (aka Policy, Delivery Tool) Performance Evaluation
• Assess Policy Performance based on effectiveness, efficiency, relevance and appropriateness
• Evaluation for Environmental Governance • Auditing and performance evaluation of CEMS roles,
responsibilities, accountabilities and business processes
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• Reporting is documenting results of indicator monitoring and evaluation and presenting them to appropriate audiences at specified times.
• Active reporting enhances environmental knowledge of target audiences.
• Passive reporting provides data, information and knowledge to a broad spectrum audience, and includes State of Environment reporting.
• Influences the actions and behavior of target audiences to help achieve outcomes.
• Informs and influences resource allocation, prioritization and decision making (for policy and delivery tools), as well as adaptation of the MER.
• Fulfills legislative and regulatory obligations.
Reporting
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Governance • Built upon a structure of shared networks,
fundamental data sets and a collective knowledge base by defining roles & accountabilities.
• GOA retains accountability for environmental assurance and policy.
• Enablers including legislation, approvals, codes. • Funding Principles
• Inclusive – of funding, people and equipment for both condition and pressure monitoring.
• Sustainable – Long term commitment for monitoring baseline; independent of fiscal budgets (i.e. 3-5 years).
• Integrated/ effective/ efficient – focuses on efficiencies or effectiveness to be had in the current MER system, as well as to capitalize on new funding sources.
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MER Assurance
• An Assurance Program will ensure data collected by AENV and for AENV is accurate and dependable for use in decision-making.
• A set of controls to enable partnerships in the collection, integration, evaluation & reporting of data, information and knowledge.
• Audits of the processes, equipment, data and people associated with MER will provide greater confidence in the system and its products.
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Next Steps
• Draft Framework by December 2009 • Remove the draft by March 2010 • Developing pieces of the system
– Evaluation & Reporting Strategy • Testing or developing the model in a place
based situation – Industrial Heartland – Low Athabasca Regional Plan
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Contact information
Albert Poulette Director Integrated Monitoring Evaluation & Reporting Alberta Environment 8th Floor Oxbridge Place 9820-106 St Edmonton, Alberta
https://internal.sp.environment.gov.ab.ca/OpenINA/EA/IMERF/Pages/default.aspx
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Are there any questions?