Measure the success of your strategy
Throughout this process, we’ve emphasised the importance of measuring the outcomes of your decisions and actions. A strategy isn’t any use unless you can measure how well it works.
Is traffic increasing, or decreasing? Is air quality better, or worse? Are parks and other open spaces being used more or less often? Do people feel safer? Overall, is your strategy contributing to a place that’s good to live, work, and play?
A well planned monitoring programme will allow you to measure the success of your strategy, and to make any necessary changes. You need to decide:
Make sure your work is integrated with council’s overall monitoring strategy. Monitoring can be costly and time consuming, and sharing resources makes the process much more efficient and cost-effective. How you store and share your information makes a big difference.
Reference material
Christchurch
City Council has developed an easy-to-use monitoring database that coordinates,
stores, retrieves and generates the many different types of monitoring information
held by the Council. The database begins with the City Plan at the top and
cascades down to the monitoring data. However, as more monitoring programmes
develop, the structure can be changed so the data is at the core, and links
move outwards to each relevant monitoring programme.
