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Chapter 7 IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING AND EVALUATION

This Chapter provides a general framework to implement the recommendations presented in Chapter 5. It suggests the recommended leaders of each recommendation, the
estimated budget, resources, timeline, and it recommends key performance indicators that should be used to monitor progress. This Chapter is only a reference tool; it was
prepared without any involvement with the entities who would be largely responsible for its completion. The scope of work for this phase of the project did not have the luxury of
time to allow extensive involvement with the numerous agencies that would be likely involved and would naturally require their cooperation. Building cooperation and
collaboration with all the proposed responsible parties named herein would itself be a significant undertaking. The author fully recognizes that assigning work to organizations
without their input (and expending their resources to boot) will likely result in resistance. This is understandable, and the entities should know that this implementation chapter is
only presented as a suggested framework. Estimated timelines are difficult to know at this stage without understanding the existing constraints on the lead agency. The budgets
are especially difficult to estimate, and some are not provided because there are too many unknown variables that would affect the amount expended. The first step before any of
these recommendations are started is for the responsible parties to review these implementation actions, and their supporting justifications presented in previous chapters, and
to provide their expert opinions on the implementation. Whether or not this will result in the required buy-in and cooperation that is necessary for any recommendation to be
successful is yet unknown. However, this first step is necessary for all the recommendations in this plan, including those for which the Mt Hood Territory is the lead responsible
entity. The Mt Hood Territory, being the lead agency on this Plan, would therefore be responsible for coordinating these entities, holding the required informational meetings and
strategy sessions, making presentations, collecting their feedback, and modifying the recommendations and implementation actions accordingly. For this reason, the group of
Organizational and Institutional Recommendations are presented here first and creating the WaTER Advisory Board is the first of the first recommendations. The buy-in and
refinement necessary to make this plan successful is through this Advisory Board.