What sorts of projects can INFFER assess?
INFFER is used to assess projects that aim to prevent or repair damage to natural assets, such as water resources, biodiversity and land. The projects must be linked to specific, identifiable natural assets. It is not designed for general capacity-building projects for which results cannot be linked to specific assets, but if capacity building is what is needed to manage a particular asset, then the project can be assessed using INFFER. INFFER provides a lot of information that is useful in considering investments in research (see FAQ36). However, it is not designed to allow a comparison between projects that mainly have the aim of collecting information about an asset (e.g. monitoring projects, and projects collecting basic data) and projects that aim to improve the management of the asset by influencing or directly undertaking works and on-ground actions.