Evaluation of Water Resource Management and Use program: chapter 4

1. Introduction

This document presents the findings of an evaluation of Environment Canada’s (EC) Water Resource Management and Use (WRMU) program (sub-program 1.2.2 in the Department’s Program Alignment Architecture), conducted between June 2013 and July 2014 by EC’s Audit and Evaluation Branch.

The evaluation report is organized as follows: Section 2 provides a background description of the WRMU program, including key activities, governance structure and expected results. Section 3 presents the evaluation design, including the purpose and scope of the evaluation, the methodological approach and the limitations of the evaluation. Section 4 provides the findings and conclusions of the evaluation, and Section 5 presents the conclusions. The recommendations and management response are provided in Section 6.