List of Project Performance Measures

Overall Project Measures
These measures provide common measurement metrics for all projects. You are required to report on all of these measures at the beginning and end of the project.

Environmental Performance Measures
These are the most important measures to consider and include both direct and surrogate measurements. Direct measures identify actual environmental changes occurring with IPM adoption (or Organic adoption). In contrast, surrogate measures identify changes in strategies or behavior that should lead to environmental changes. Although direct measures are more powerful than surrogate measures, most are prohibitively expensive unless monitoring by other entities is already underway. Therefore, to arrive at direct measurement a project will need additional leveraging potential.

Project Tracking Measures
These measures document a specific activity but are not environmental indicators. While these types of measures are useful for determining participation levels, these measures do not assess performance or environmental outcomes.