This document provides and overview of design and functionality of the Cotton Best Management Practices eBMP project. This project has arisen from a number of opportunities for improvement in the implementation of the Cotton Industry’s Best Practices program (BMP). These are to;

 Develop cost effective ways of distributing updates to the BMP manual content.

 Enable industry staff to have access to an ‘electronic’ auditing system for conducting Pre-certification assessment, Certification assessment and;

 Allow cotton growers, managers the ability to conduct their annual self assessment declarations ‘electronically’.

 Better link BMP to research

 Monitor Practice Change

WHAT IS EBMP?

eBMP is a system for relevant stakeholders to implement the cotton industry’s best management practices program. The BMP program is underpinned by best practice research and as such the system has the ability to interact and integrate this research to make it available to the user. The eBMP system allows the relevant stakeholders to fulfil the auditing requirements of the BMP program as well as have then ability to monitor practice change within the industry.

EBMP – USERS

The eBMP system has a range of users, these are;

 Cotton Grower

 Cotton Australia Grower Services Managers

 Best Management Practices (BMP) Implementation Officers

 Researchers

 Other interested industry people

 The public