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Victoria's Bushfire Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Framework

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Victoria’s Bushfire Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Framework is helping us to keep track of our progress towards achieving the outcomes of Victoria’s Bushfire Management Strategy and to identify further opportunities for continuous improvement.

The framework will:

  • track our progress towards the strategy’s outcomes
  • help us to make decisions and allocate resources
  • learn from what we’ve already done so that we continue to do better.

From day one of strategy delivery, the sector will be able to track progress using the framework. However, the framework is also designed to be flexible. It will grow and change over time to reflect what we have learned and what new data we gather.

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Why do we need a framework?

The strategy’s outcomes are long term. They represent what we are working towards over the next 10 years. The framework uses ‘intermediate outcomes’ to identify what change we should see in the short and medium term. Outcome indicators specify what is needed to direct that change.

The long-term outcomes of the strategy will be monitored using intermediate outcomes in the framework
Strategy outcomeIntermediate outcomes
Communities are more resilient to the impacts of bushfires and bushfire management activities.
  • People and communities are empowered to contribute to bushfire management, including mitigation, planning, preparedness, response and recovery in their local area and on their land.
  • The impact of fire on community values is reduced.a
  • People and communities recover in a timely and safe way following bushfire events.
Business, industry and infrastructure are more resilient to the impacts of bushfires and bushfire management activities.
  • The impact of bushfire and bushfire management on assets and continuity of businesses, industry, critical infrastructure and essential services is reduced.
  • Bushfire management is informed by business and industry knowledge and expertise.
  • Business and industry have the capacity to contribute to bushfire management.
The sector supports and enables the self-determination of Traditional Owners and Aboriginal Victorians in land and bushfire managementb.
  • The sector works with Traditional Owners and Aboriginal Victorians to enable them to undertake fire management according to their self-determined interests and objectives.
  • The sector has increased cultural competency, pathways and resources to work with Traditional Owners and Aboriginal Victorians.
  • The sector provides culturally appropriate support to Traditional Owners and Aboriginal Victorians who are seeking to plan and deliver cultural fire management activities on Country.
Fire regimes support healthy and resilient ecosystems and nature conservation in a changing climate.
  • Current, up-to-date ecological values inform bushfire management for ecosystem resilience and nature conversation.
  • Bushfire management supports appropriate fire regimes to promote ecosystem resilience.
  • Bushfire management planning and decisions to support ecosystem resilience are based on evidence, knowledge and values.
Victoria uses the best available science, innovation and knowledge to support evidence-based decisions.
  • Bushfire management planning and decisions are collaborative and based on up-to-date and current evidence, knowledge and values including that of community and, with consent, Traditional Owners.
  • Bushfire management planning and decisions consider and incorporate future scenarios and predictions, including climate change.
  • The sector has a shared understanding of the effectiveness of risk-reduction options and directs resources to the most effective actions to reduce bushfire risk.
The sector, land managers, communities and industry work together effectively and share responsibility for managing and adapting to bushfire risk across public and private land.
  • The sector and partners collaborate to identify and implement bushfire management that meets their individual and shared responsibilities.
Victoria is supported and equipped with the skills, equipment, capability and systems to safely and effectively manage bushfire.
  • The sector has the resources it needs and in the right places to undertake bushfire management.
  • The sector’s workforce and volunteers are healthy, safe and representative of the community they protect.
  • The sector has the capability, tools, systems and processes to work together effectively and uses these to manage bushfire.

a. ‘Values’ includes, but is not limited to, human life and residential property, the economy, critical infrastructure, environmental and cultural values.

b. Final intermediate outcomes relating to self-determination will be developed and determined with Victoria’s Traditional Owners.

Our approach

The framework will be delivered in 2 phases. In phase 1 we will track progress towards the strategy’s outcomes. In phase 2, we will also begin to evaluate our progress. Our evaluation will focus on:

  • appropriateness
  • effectiveness
  • efficiency
  • outcomes
  • lessons and opportunities.

What you can expect to see

The framework will be reported on in 2 specific ways.

  • Annually to provide a snapshot of our progress against our desired outcomes
  • Periodically using qualitative and quantitative data to understand how monitoring and evaluation can support the delivery of the strategy’s outcomes.

Reporting and continuous improvement are strongly linked. These processes will support the sector to adapt and improve in response to new information and evidence.

A final evaluation of the strategy will also be delivered at the end of its 10-year timeframe.

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