20 Million Trees Programme: Round Two MERIT reporting requirements
Below are examples of the activities that successful applicants will report on using MERIT (the online reporting tool for Australian
Government NRM programmes)
Activity Name
Target Measures
(to be delivered by the project)
Minimum Data Requirement
IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS Activities that are undertaken to deliver the project outputs and outcomes.
Plant Propagation
 Species propagated
Use to record information about the germination and
 No. plants propagated
finishing of plants ready for distribution and planting
 Participant Information
out. This is essentially a plant nursery based activity.
Revegetation
Use to record the details of revegetation and habitat
enhancement actions involving the re-establishment
of flora.
Site Preparation
Use to record the details of works undertaken to
prepare sites for subsequent activities such as
revegetation.
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Species planted
Number planted
Seed sown (kg)
Stock type
Structural layer
Mature height
Ground preparation works
Weed treatment objective
Area treated (ha)
Type of treatment event
Weed Treatment
Use to record the details of any intervention actions
to treat weeds.
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Progress Outcomes and Learning (Stage)
Use this form to provide, at each stage reporting
period, details of how the project is tracking, what
has been achieved during the reporting period (ie.
outcomes), progress against output targets, and
what has been learnt in terms of managing and
delivering the project. This activity is mandatory for
each reporting period.
 Progress against planned
activities and outcomes
 Successes, challenges and
adaptations
 Environmental outcomes
 Social outcomes
Project Administration
Use to record the time spent undertaking different
types of administrative activities of a project. This
form allows for multiple administrative tasks to be
recorded and should only be used once in each
reporting period of a project.
 Type of administration
activity
 Participant Information
 Total no. of plants grown
and ready for planting
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Vegetation at time of planting
Revegetation Method
Landscape connectivity
Area of revegetation works (ha)
Participant Information
 Area of revegetation works
(ha)
 Kilograms of seed sown (kg)
 Number of plants planted
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Main activity partner
Target species
Treatment method
Participant Information
 Total area prepared for
follow-up treatment actions
(ha)
Treatment objective
 Target species
 Total area treated (ha)
Area treated (ha)
 Treatment method
Type of treatment event
 Participant Information
Main activity partner
Pest Management
Activity partner
 Priority status
 No. of individual animals or
Use to record the details of any intervention actions
colonies killed/removed
Treatment objective
 Pest management method
to manage or destroy pest animals.
 Area covered by pest
Describe how partner
 No. individuals or colonies killed
treatment (ha)
contributions will offset
 Area covered by treatment (ha)
private gains and how public
 Fence length (km)
benefits will be maintained
 Fence purpose
 Target species
 Participant Information
PROJECT ADMINISTRATION, MANAGEMENT & REPORTING Activities which collect information about the administration, implementation, and outcomes of the project
itself.
Outcomes Evaluation and Learning (Project)
N/A
 Environmental outcomes
 Efficiency of project
Use to record information about the implementation
 Social outcomes
 Appropriateness of methodology
of the project and outcomes from it. This activity
 Economic outcomes
 Assumptions
should be used once only in the final stage of the
 Effectiveness of project
 Risk Management
project as part of the project closure report.
 Impact of project
 Lessons learnt
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Economic outcomes
Implementation
Adaptations and variations
Lessons learnt
Improvements or changes
N/A
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ASSESSMENT & MONITORING Activities involved in collecting data about the condition / status of a resource or the effectiveness of implementation actions.
Flora Survey - general
N/A
 Survey methodology
Use as a generic field data recording form for
 Species
method-driven transect / plot based flora surveys.
 Participant Information
Plant Survival Survey
Use to record the results of revegetation activities
following a planting event. This can be used multiple
times over a period of time as a monitoring activity.
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Counting method
Species
Number planted
Seed sown (kg)
Vegetation Assessment - Cwth govt methodology
Use to record vegetation condition data and other
site information for a patch of native vegetation or
revegetation area. This is the commonwealth
government standard methodology for this purpose.
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Type of assessment event
Type of site
Sampling Point ID
Evidence of exotic fauna
Species (for species diversity)
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Number surviving
Survival rate (%)
Mature height (<2m, >2m)
Participant information
 Survival rate %
N/A
Activity form examples can be found in the “MERIT Demonstrator Project” in the MERIT test environment https://fieldcapture-test.ala.org.au/