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Overview

How many of your policy-makers use integrated environmental assessments (IEA)

as a trusted resource, and consider it a learning opportunity to improve policies?
Module
8 How do we know whether the assessment is useful and used, rather than just
sitting on a shelf? Module 8 offers tools to help you monitor and evaluate the
effectiveness of your national or sub-national IEA.

In Module 8, you will learn to develop a monitoring and evaluation plan, based
on seven questions:
1. What is the purpose of the evaluation?
2. Who will use the evaluation results?

3. Who will do the evaluation?
4. What evaluation framework is practical?

5. What needs to be monitored and evaluated?
6. What are the steps to develop a self-assessment matrix?
7. How can you use the evaluation to enhance a learning culture that keeps
improving your IEA process?

Module 8 promotes an improvement-oriented evaluation that aims to increase
the effectiveness of your national or sub-national IEA process by feeding lessons
learned into the next cycle. Learning plays a central role. It shapes the monitoring
and evaluation process, and keeps knowledge creation connected with policy
making.

Module 8 challenges you with two questions:
1. How to make sure your IEA has an evaluation component?

2. How to design an effective evaluation that keeps improving your IEA process?

As part of designing an effective evaluation, you will develop measures to monitor
and evaluate key outcomes from your IEA—relating to the change statement

from your impact strategy and the important relationships you need to manage

4 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Improvement and Increased
Impact of the IEA Process