Have your say on the SEG Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Plan. 

Comments requested by Friday 10 May

As we hope you are aware, the SEG Standard is one of the key tools and strategies that SEG uses in its Theory of Change to assist the recovery of the European eel in the long term quest for its sustainability.

To support the new standard (Version 7) published in November 2023, we have developed an enhanced Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system.  The purpose of that system is to define the short to long term outcomes and impacts that are expected from implementing SEG’s strategies, including the SEG standard. It describes what those outcomes and key assumptions are and will be measured to provide learning feedback for improving our strategies.

To develop that further, we have developed a MEL Plan.  The purpose of this plan is to identify, for our aims (sustainability impacts):-

• targets

• measures

• how they will be monitored

• how they will be evaluated

• how we will gain and implement learning to improve our system.

As interested stakeholders, we are seeking your input to this plan, i.e.:

• In general – on any part of the plan and its use in helping SEG and our policies to improve,

• The plans listed at 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 on pages 3 and 4,

• The measures in Appendix 1.  In particular:

  • The usefulness of those measures in indicating the outcome desired,

  • The sources of those data and their ease of collection.

• We are particularly seeking any comments, either in support of our proposals, or to suggest how improvements might be made.

To comment, please contact us at standard@sustainableeelgroup.org by Friday 10 May.