Set targets and milestones (optional)

While optional, targets and milestones provide a structured way to define the desired conditions for the landscape and evaluate the landscape’s actual status and trends against these objectives. Targets and milestones are valuable for tracking progress through the platform as reassessments are conducted and for demonstrating progress to stakeholders.

If targets and milestones were entered during the baseline assessment, they will be pre-populated in the LandScale platform and cannot be edited during reassessment. This ensures consistency in tracking progress over time. However, users may add new targets and milestones if additional objectives have been established since the baseline.

Targets and milestones can only be set for metrics (not for indicators, goals, or pillars). To ensure comparability, they must use the same units of measurement—or clearly convertible units—as the corresponding metric(s) in both the baseline and reassessment.

The process for adding new targets and milestones must follow the baseline assessment guidelines.

Mark achieved targets and milestones

Users can check off targets and milestones when they have been achieved. If a target or milestone has been reached:

• Users should mark it as completed in the platform.

• The platform will allow users to update the date the target or milestone was reached to reflect actual achievement timing.

Assessing performance against targets and milestones

The LandScale platform can calculate the difference between baseline and reassessment results, including the percentage of progress toward targets based on the milestones entered—provided these use the same or clearly convertible units of measurement. However, the platform does not directly link the results to the entered milestones or targets.

This functionality is only available when reassessment values are present alongside the baseline, as the baseline serves as the starting point for tracking progress. For targets and milestones with specified achievement dates, assessment results should be compared to the time-bound measures that align with the same time period as the current reassessment.

Using the raw calculations generated by the platform, the assessment team can develop narrative descriptions of performance in the reassessment report. These narratives should provide context, interpret the results, and highlight progress or gaps relative to the defined targets and milestones. When used in this way, LandScale can support the development of a more structured monitoring and evaluation system over time, with each assessment cycle contributing to a clearer picture of landscape progress.