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Why Do Monitoring Projects Succeed or Fail?

Understand why monitoring projects succeed or fail, with a focus on design and procedural issues. Learn from the top reasons for failure and key elements for project success. Explore strategies for accurate pollutant identification, strong project leadership, and effective institutional coordination.

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Why Do Monitoring Projects Succeed or Fail?

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  1. Why Do Monitoring Projects Succeed or Fail? L.M. Reid. 2001. The epidemiology of monitoring. J. AWRA 37(4):815-820.

  2. Design Problems • Problems are inherent in the plan • No amount of hard work can salvage • Procedural Problems • Problems in execution sabotage good design

  3. Top 12 reasons for failure - Design 1. Monitoring plan cannot measure what is needed

  4. Top 12 reasons for failure - Design 2. Study too short

  5. Top 12 reasons for failure - Design 3. Inadequate problem identification or analysis

  6. Top 12 reasons for failure - Design 4. Fundamental misunderstanding of the system

  7. Top 12 reasons for failure - Design 5. Statistically weak design

  8. Top 12 reasons for failure - Procedural 6. Lack of training and/or enthusiasm in field staff

  9. Top 12 reasons for failure – Procedural 7. Failure to evaluate data regularly ? ?

  10. Top 12 reasons for failure - Procedural 8. Failure to collect collateral information

  11. Top 12 reasons for failure - Procedural 9. Bad or misunderstood technology

  12. Top 12 reasons for failure - Procedural 10. Personnel change

  13. Top 12 reasons for failure - Procedural 11. Lack of institutional integration

  14. Top 12 reasons for failure - Procedural 12. Protocol changes

  15. Top 12 reasons for failure Procedural problems can be addressed by training, good management, and $$, but design problems may doom a project from the start

  16. Ingredients for success 9 Key Elements addressed satisfactorily

  17. Ingredients for success • Avoid causes of failure #1 – 12 • Accurate identification of pollutants and sources  measure the right pollutant at the right time in the right place • Small, focused effort (avoid large diverse watershed, gradual random implementation) • Good monitoring design

  18. Ingredients for success 5. Attention to procedural issues 6. Strong, unified project leadership 7. Control over schedule of implementation 8. Effective tracking of land use and land treatment activities

  19. Ingredients for success 9. Strong feedback between monitoring and implementation throughout the project 10. Effective institutional coordination 11. Priority and time given to effective evaluation, reporting and communication of project results 12. Appropriate funding (amount & duration)

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