How to develop a community monitoring programme

1. Steps for developing a community monitoring programme

You will have already gained an understanding of community engagement (Unit 1), participatory engagement techniques (Unit 2) and environmental monitoring techniques (Unit 4). These are all important in developing a successful community monitoring programme.

Illustration of a community being worried about fish numbers, planning and evaluating a survey

1 & 2. Community members identify a problem with fish numbers decreasing
    3. Community meeting is held to discuss what to do
      4. Community decide whether they need external help or not
        5. Community decides what monitoring technique to use
          6. Community decide what type of outputs they need

          Illustration of a community being worried about fish numbers, planning and evaluating a survey


          7. Community meeting to agree the monitoring plan

          8. Community team collect the samples

          9. Community discusses how the monitoring has gone and how to improve ongoing monitoring