Performance Reporting
The Fresh Water Reform 2013 (Ministry for the Environment 2013) highlighted the need for improved monitoring to enable adaptive management approaches. A Performance Reporting Framework has been developed to help councils improve frameworks and processes to evaluate the effectiveness of fresh water policy. The guide provides councils with a framework and method for undertaking performance monitoring and reporting of freshwater policies. Performance reporting is the mechanism by which decision impacts can be evaluated and reflected on, outcomes reported, and information communicated. It is also a means of facilitating adaptive management. As the approach and principles are generic, the guide can also be used to help evaluate policy effectiveness within other policy issue domains.