The South Australian Murray-Darling
Basin Natural Resources Management Board has developed a Community
Monitoring Framework (CMF) and Tool Kit. The purpose of the CMF
is to guide stakeholders in the South Australian Murray-Darling
Basin Natural Resources Management region on how to achieve the
greatest value from community based monitoring.
The Tool Kit provides practical
“hands-on” resources and information to help community
groups to get started with planning through to evaluation and
reflection. The CMF and Tool Kit are for community based monitoring
groups setting up, established groups or project officers supporting
a community based monitoring group.
Why use the CMF and Tool
Kit?
Whether you and your group are monitoring for educational purposes
or to inform decision making it is important that your monitoring
effort is being maximised. Also it is very important that the
data collected is credible, reliable and comparable over time
and location. The best approach to ensure this is to have an effective
monitoring program. An effective monitoring program incorporates
all stages of the community based monitoring cycle from planning
the monitoring, collecting, analysing and interpreting the data,
communicating and reviewing results and determining the next phase
of monitoring from this new knowledge.
The CMF and Tool Kit contains
generic tools and templates for adaptation and use to address
the stages in the community based monitoring cycle. The CMF and
Tool Kit will be available from the SA MDB NRM Board website at
www.samdbnrm.sa.gov.au
soon!
