Final Assessment Report E v a l u a

Results and Performance under the Strategic Plan 2015-2020 7 Sustainable Communities and Ecosystems The objective of this strategic priority was to maintain efforts to improve and restore the integrity of ecosystems, landscapes, and seascapes; to conserve priority species; and to enhance rural and urban environments by working closely with communities. [...] The analysis of the information and interviews highlighted the following elements: Results and Performance under the Strategic Plan 2015-2020 9 Learning from and assisting Enhancing the alignment of Enhancing information-sharing, vulnerable groups and local environmental regulatory standards, transparency, capacity building, and Indigenous communities enforcement, and compliance and communication. [...] Strengthen the design of projects The CEC could incorporate in the early stages of project development the views of nongovernmental actors and key stakeholders to ensure projects are realistic and achievable and serve to enrich the planning process. [...] Results and Performance under the Strategic Plan 2015-2020 14 Recommendations Develop reliable, adequate, and comparable indicators for each of the CEC projects and the Strategic Plan The CEC could develop macro-level indicators to measure the results of the five-year Strategic Plan and to assess the scope of aggregated efforts carried out by the CEC under each Strategic Plan. [...] Provide advice and mentoring to the steering committee members and Secretariat staff involved in the elaboration of the projects The CEC could offer workshops and provide other training tools to strengthen the abilities of the main actors involved in the development of the projects to develop robust indicators.