Incentives for Ecosystem Services

Step 5: Define monitoring to track impact

Develop indicators and monitoring to track impact of incentives and activities for social, economic and environmental outcomes.

Key questions to ask

  1. What outcomes will be key to monitor to track impact of incentives and activities?
    • Social
    • Economic
    • Environmental
    • Food security (availability, access, utilization, stability, etc.) and nutrition
    • Gender
    • Equity of benefit distribution
    • Resilience
  2. What indicators and methods are required to monitor these outcomes?
  3. Who will or can feasibly collect, collate and analyze monitoring data? [N.B. this may influence which indicators and methods are used, whether training is needed, etc.]
  4. What existing monitoring could be used to in-build these indicators?

Expertise needed

Expertise needed

  • Ecosystem services and agriculture expert in developing for user-friendly monitoring methods
  • Facilitator to lead stakeholder discussion to identify existing monitoring and build capacity for local-led monitoring

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