Socio-Economic Indicators for NRM (Project A1.1)

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This study focuses specifically on developing a framework and indicators which may be useful in monitoring the performance of regional NRM bodies involved in NAPSWQ and NHT program implementation. The study has three objectives which are to identify indicators and associated data needs to measure:

1. the capacity of regional groups to make decisions on NRM issues, including whether decision-making capability has improved.
2. institutional change (defined as change in the formal and informal rules for regulating behaviour together with means of implementing those rules), including whether institutions have responded more effectively, and
3. the interlinkages between the above two components and their relationship of longer term changes to the condition of the natural resource base, capacity of regional communities to respond and manage for effective NRM outcomes, and the economic viability of agriculture.