"Today, it is increasingly required that projects be assessed by their impact, i.e., the sustainability of their results, but the dificulty is still how this can be measured. These guidelines are intended to address this problem, and to promote more direct identification of land management objectives in rural development projects.

"The Guidelines address a broad range of principal users:

(1) Programme co-ordinators and project managers will find assistance in initiating monitoring procedures, assessing results and organizing presentation, dissemination, and storage of information;
(2) Agronomists, geographers, socio-economists orother persons conducting monitoring will find advice about which monitoring methods to select."

The Guidelines are presented in four different modules: 

Pathfinder Module: Guidance for users
Sustainable Land Management Module: The importance of SLM
SLM Impact Monitoring Module: A seven-step procedure for SLM-IM
Toolkit Module: A selection of practical tools and cost-effective methods

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