Monitoring and Review Project
The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) and councils have a responsibility to monitor the implementation and effectiveness of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA).
MfE currently uses a number of mechanisms to capture RMA monitoring information including the Biennial Survey of local authorities, State of the Environment monitoring, research and one-off data requests.
However, there is no national framework to identify and capture consistent and comparable information to understand how the RMA is implemented and whether it is effective at what it is trying to achieve.
Working with councils and other relevant organisations, the ‘Monitoring and Review Project (MRP) – Towards an integrated monitoring framework for the Resource Management Act’, will explore how RMA information can be better collected and shared to improve RMA processes.
Objectives
The objectives of this project are to:
- Develop a clear and transparent national monitoring framework that can provide,
- robust information on the implementation of the RMA,
- information on the performance of tools (national policy statements), functions (plan making) and processes (issuing resource consents) under the RMA
- Improve the availability, consistency and comparability of RMA information,
- Streamline the collection of information to achieve efficiencies,
- Provide information to produce a coherent picture of the RMA’s overall outcomes,
The project is divided into three stages:
This is designed to be a collaborative effort drawing on many other agencies from both local and central government.
Last updated: 20 December 2011
