In 2020, the Alberta Water Council (AWC) identified the need to review the implementation of the Alberta Wetland Policy (the policy). This review would support improving and public reporting on the efficiency and effectiveness of implementing the policy by the Government of Alberta (GoA) and Albertans.
The AWC established a project team to create a common understanding of the policy’s terms, characterize successful implementation, and identify potential performance measures for the goal, outcomes, and strategic directions of the policy. Additionally, the team was tasked with describing the challenges, opportunities, or unintended consequences experienced by AWC sectors and other partners when implementing the policy.
This report presents several performance measures, challenges, opportunities, and unintended consequences that are being experienced by sectors along with a rationale. The AWC was not tasked with making policy recommendations for prospective solutions. Instead, their scope of work focused on areas that the GoA can consider when improving how the policy is implemented and reporting on its progress publicly.