Sustainable land management : guidelines for impact monitoring : workbook.

A key activitiy in promoting sustainable development is a revitalised rural investment strategy. This would include intensified production to meet growing demands while concurrently ensuring conservation of natural resources and promotion of sustainable land management. Important componants in this stategy include development of indicatiors and procedures for monitoring impacts of projects, programmes and policies on the productivity and quality of land resources. Whereas in the past, projects were evaluated by their performance using mainly quantitative indicators, today it is increasingly required that projects be assessed by their impact, ie the sustainability of their results, but the difficulty is still how this can be measured. These guidelines are intended to address this problem and to promote more direct identification of land management objectives in rural development projects.
See also associated "Guidelines for impact monitoring : toolkit" D:Environment and resource management, 3356.