Green Recovery And Reconstruction: Training Toolkit For Humanitarian Aid Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation Session 2: Environmental Monitoring

Green Recovery And Reconstruction: Training Toolkit For Humanitarian Aid

Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation

Session 2: Environmental Monitoring & Project Strategy

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1. Describe why it is important to incorporate environmental considerations into Project Design, M&E:

Workshop Learning Objectives

Project Environment

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2.Integrate environmental indicators into the project strategy and every step of the project cycle.

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3. Select and measure environmental indicators (be S.M.A.R.T.).

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4. Demonstrate that integrating environmental monitoring into your project does not have to be difficult, costly, or time-consuming.

5. Do you have additional objectives?

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Greening the Logframe

Narrative description

Objectively verifiableindicators

Sources of information

Risks, hypothesis,

assumptions

Impact:

Outcome:

Output:

Activities:

Inputs:

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Methodology

1. Brief presentations + Action Learning

2. Discuss and test M&E concepts, policies and tools

3. Share experiences

4. Participant feedback and evaluation

First, what is a GRRT module?

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Key Concepts of the Module

This module builds upon four key concepts:

1. Disaster response projects impact the environment – both positively and negatively.

2. Disaster response projects need to be assessed and designed to ensure:

environmental issues are identified,

negative environmental impacts are minimized

positive environmental opportunities are supported.

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Key Concepts of the Module, cont.

3. Monitoring of disaster response projects needs to include indicators that identify and measure achievement or changes for specific environment-related objectives or sub-objectives.

4. These projects need to be evaluated to determine if the environment-related actions were appropriate and what their impact was, and to draw lessons learned for future projects.

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IndicatorsWhat are “indicators” as applied to M&E? Indicators provide clear statements of the precise

information needed to assess whether proposed changes have occurred.

Indicators can be quantitative (numeric) or qualitative (descriptive observations)

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Generic Project Management Cycle

2. Problem/Stakeholder Analysis

3. Project Design

4. Implementation

6. Evaluation / Lessons Learned

1. Initial Assessment

Start Project

5. Monitoring

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Project Management CycleWith M & E Post-Disaster

Disaster

2. Problem/Stakeholder Analysis

3. Project Design

4. Implementation

6. Evaluation / Lessons Learned


5. Monitoring

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How is each stage of the project cycle linked to environmental monitoring?


2. Problem/Stakeholder analysis

3. Project Design

4. Implementation

5. Monitoring

6. Evaluation/Lessons Learned

Take 3-4 minutes and write answer on flip chart.

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Case Study: Tropico

Small arid country Drought for three years Mainly rural population Needs assessment indicate

high rate of malnutrition among children under 5

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Analysis: Defining the problem

MalnutritionInappropriateagriculturalpractices

Poor cropproduction

Foodshortage

Poor soil

Watershortage

Lack ofagriculturalinputs

Salt intrusion from disaster

Erosion

Drought/Desertification

Lack ofirrigation

Destruction of irrigation infrastructure

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Plan the Response

Malnutrition

The problem

How and where to attack the problem?

Inappropriateagriculturalpractices

Erosion Poor cropproduction

Foodshortage

Poor soil

Watershortage



Lack ofirrigation



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Plan the Response

Increaseavailabilityof food

Reduce incidence ofmalnutrition

A solution

But this solutiondoesn’t address

root causes


ErosionPoor cropproductionPoor soil

Watershortage



Lack ofirrigation



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Plan the Response


ErosionPoor cropproductionPoor soil

Watershortage



Lack ofirrigation



A solution

Another intervention point



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Plan the Response


ErosionIncreasecropproductivity

Poor soil

Watershortage



Lack ofirrigation





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Plan the Response

Improvedagriculturalpractices

Reduce erosion

Increasecropproductivity

Improvedsoil fertility

Increaseavailabilityof water

Increasedavailabilityof inputs

Improvedadaptationto climatechange

Irrigationprovided



Additional intervention points

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Identify Environmental Impactsof the Intervention Points

Example: Increase availability of agricultural inputs

Potential environmental impacts

Inputs:

Activity:

Outputs:

Invasive/non-native speciesSeeds & tools

Increased farming activity

Increased forest conversion for agriculture

Increased cropyields

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This analysis is the essence of our workshop.

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How to Integrate Environmental Issues into Project Monitoring and Evaluation

Step 1: Adapt your goal statement to include environmental conditions

Step 2: Adapt the outputs

Step 3: Integrate the environment into your project activities

Step 4: Consider the role of the environment in your assessment risks

Step 5: Integrate environmental indicators into project monitoring

Step 6: Integrate the environment into project evaluation

See Handout 2.2.1

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Step 1. Project objective

Step 2. Project output

Step 3. Project activity

Step 4. ID assumptions & risk

Step 5. Integrate env.indicators into project monitoring

Exercise: Taking the Steps

Set up your flip chart paper like this

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Step 1: Adapt your Goal Statement to include Environmental Conditions

Example of a goal: Improve food security of vulnerable populations in post-conflict areas.

No “intervention point” for environment here.

BUT, if we change it to: Improve food security of vulnerable populations in post-conflict areas while maintaining integrity of local natural resources.

THEN we can address, for example: depletion of freshwater resources introduction of invasive species increasing forest conversion to agriculture

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Exercise: Step 1

Adapt your assigned goal to include environmental considerations

Group 1: Reduce incidence of disease caused by poor sanitation

Group 2: Provide shelter for all disaster affected families

Group 3: Provide employment opportunities for 1,000 disaster impacted unemployed workers

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Step 2: Adapt the Outputs


Reduce erosion

Increasecropproductivity


Increasedavailabilityof water


Irrigationprovided




Reduce erosion


Increasedavailabilityof water


Irrigationprovided



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Step 2: Adapt the Outputs

The initial outputs:

Increased availability of agricultural inputs (seeds and tools)

Improved soil fertility

Increased availability of water

can become….

Revised outputs:

Increased availability of local seeds (non-invasive)

Improved soil fertility without use of harmful chemicals

Increased availability of sustainably sourced water for crop production

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Exercise: Step 2

Integrate the environment into your project outputs

Group 1: Adequate latrines for all disaster affected families

Group 2: Adequate shelters available for all affected families

Group 3: Livelihood options available to the affected population

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Step 3: Integrate Environment into Project Activities

Increased availability of local seeds (non-invasive)

Improved soil fertility without use of harmful chemicals

Increased availability of sustainable sourced water for crop production

Seed multiplication of locally available (non-invasive) seeds

Train local farmers on composting techniques

Establish irrigation systems where sufficient water sources exist

outputs Activities

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Exercise: Step 3

Adapt your activities to include environmental conditions

Groups 1, 2 and 3: Identify at least one activity that will achieve the output you designed in the Step 2 exercise

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Step 4: Consider the Role of the Environment in your Assumptions and Risks

For all projects there are assumptions about how your activities will yield the outputs

Risks: the degree of the probability of problems resulting from the activity

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Exercise: Step 4

Identify assumptions and risks.

Groups 1, 2 and 3: Identify at least one assumption you made and at least one risk regarding the activity you proposed in the Step 2 exercise.

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Step 5: Integrate Environmental Indicators into Project Monitoring

What is the difference between an environmental indicator and a regular monitoring indicator?

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More About Indicators After Lunch

Documents

Green Recovery And Reconstruction: Training Toolkit For Humanitarian Aid Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation Session 2: Environmental Monitoring