Monitoring and evaluation of National Action Programmes to combat desertification

The art and science of monitoring and evaluation is crucial to am optimal implementation of national action plans. This comprehensive volume is a powerful set of instruments, drawing on inputs from OSS partners and projects across the region and beyond. After an initiation to the new reader in basic definitions and notions such as indicators and benchmarks, the report examines methodological approaches developed in a number of North African countries and Niger. The role of information systems and data exchange at the (sub-)regional level is brought to the fore, as is the essential attention being paid to training.