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Priorities for 2006–2008 *

ESCAVI has five major work priorities in 2006–2008:

1. Identify needs and develop joint activities with other national coordination committees that have an interest in vegetation information
2. Continue to refine and get adoption of indicators and methods for reporting on the native vegetation communities' integrity
3. Continue to improve and build capacity of the NVIS to provide national vegetation information
4. Improve coordination and effectiveness of investment in vegetation information
5. Address emergent issues that result from dialogue among ESCAVI participants.

1. Identify needs and develop joint activities with other national coordination committees that have an interest in vegetation information

Task:

1. Collaborate to improve information interpretation and integration
2. Communicate attributes currently used and approaches to reporting on the native vegetation on the communities' integrity matter for target
3. Explore needs for vegetation information in reporting across the NRM monitoring and evaluation framework
4. Explore what other reporting activities, attributes and indicators may be useful for native vegetation communities' integrity
5. Collaborate to identify common information gaps
6. Collaborate to identify 'universal attributes' that could contribute to a range of reporting needs
7. Exchange information about the processes other groups have in place or are developing that may assist ESCAVI

2. Continue to refine and get adoption of indicators and methods for reporting on the native vegetation communities' integrity

Task:

1. Establish baselines and estimate change to current extent for reporting change
2. Finalise the draft indicator for native vegetation condition and submit for agreement
3. Identify method to spatially representing translating condition categories
4. Explore the need for provision of training to enhance use of the four indicators and methods for reporting on the native vegetation communities.

3. Continue to improve and build capacity of the NVIS to provide national vegetation information

Task:

1. Engage in the mini re-supply for State of Forests reporting
2. Resolve equivalence in the database data for woodlands and other priority areas
3. Finalise the 'yellow book'
4. Resolve the issue of white space.

4. Improve coordination and effectiveness of investment in vegetation information

Task:

1. Contribute to development of a national investment plan
2. In collaboration with the National Land and Water Resources Audit vegetation coordinator, identify the range of current and planned investment projects in vegetation information.

5. Address emergent issues that result from dialogue among ESCAVI participants

Task:

1. Respond to issues agreed as significant by ESCAVI members in ways agreed appropriate by ESCAVI members.

* ESCAVI's priorities were discussed at our meeting in October 2008 - these will be reviewed shortly for 2009–2011

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