To improve the management of R&D programs, LWRRDC commissioned an ex-post evaluation of nine completed research projects, all of which were considered to have achieved their intended R&D outcomes. The consultants surveyed key beneficiaries of the R&D to identify the actual outcomes and benefits that had resulted from the projects to users of natural resources and to the Australian community. There were two irrigation, three water, three land and one vegetation project. All operated between 1989 and 1994.