2A-1. Develop a Formal Action Plan:
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Conservation Coaches Network Workshop Presentation
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1A-1B. Team, Scope, Vision1B. Conservation Targets1B. Viability Assessment
2A-1. Strategy Selection2A-2. Results Chains2A-3. Goals and Objectives
2B. Monitoring Plan
1C. Threat Rating
1D. Conceptual Models
Plan Your Actions & Monitoring
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Brainstorm & Select Strategies
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Brainstorm & Select Strategies
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This Presentation
1. What Are Strategies
2. How to Brainstorm & Select Strategies
3. Example
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What are Strategies?
Strategy: A group of actions with a common focus that work together to reduce threats, capitalize on opportunities, and/or restore natural systems.
designed to achieve specific objectives and goals
includes one or more activitiesgenerally developed to influence key
intervention points in your conceptual model
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Difference Between a Strategy and an Activity
Within a Strategy (a group of actions with a common focus)…
e.g., create markets in sustainably harvested fish
Activity – A specific action or set of tasks, within an overall strategy
e.g., conduct feasibility tests, train fishermen in new techniques, identify markets for fish…
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Define Your Strategies
A Good Strategy Meets the Criteria:
Linked to Critical Factors: Directly affects one or more critical factors in your conceptual model
Focused: Outlines specific courses of action that need to be carried out
Feasible: Accomplishable in light of the project's resources and constraints.
Appropriate: Acceptable to and fitting within project-specific cultural, social, and biological norms.
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General Types of Strategies
Threat AbatementStrategy
RestorationStrategy (to
enhance viability)
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Hints for Naming Strategies
• Start with a verb
• If useful, specify who
• Clearly describing the strategy may require a longer name - or (better) a description in “details” (in Miradi)
Certification
WCS will change forest
code to permit certification
Complete legal analysis and work with Forest Department to change
forest code to permit certification
Change forest code to permit
certification
VS.
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Examples of Strategies
• Obtain legal protection for vernal pool grasslands
• Manage dredging activity to maximize habitat creation for Reddish Egrets
• Build awareness of agricultural best management practices
• Work with hydropower company to manage flows and increase fish passage
• Strengthen fishing regulations • Identify, detect and control invasives
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This Presentation
1. What Are Strategies
2. How to Brainstorm & Prioritize Strategies
3. Example
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How to Brainstorm & Prioritize Strategies
1. Select a direct threat and target(s) and review contributing factors
2. Select key intervention points
3. Brainstorm potential strategies to influence key intervention points
4. Rate strategies
5. Select final strategies
6. Apply criteria for strategies
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Our Example-Swan Coastal Plain Wetlands
Adapted from WWF Australia’s Wetlands Watch Project
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1. Select a Threat and Target, Review Contributing Factors
Illegal clearing by landowners
Eucalyptuswoodlands
Seasonally flooded
wetlands
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Strategy SelectionIn Miradi, select the
direct threat, right-click & select “Brainstorm mode”
1. Select a Threat and Target, Review Contributing Factors
Brainstorm Mode in Miradi
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Questions to Keep in Mind
• In reviewing the factors contributing to this threat, make sure that you can answer these questions:– What is causing this threat to happen? What social,
economic, cultural, political and institutional factors are contributing to the threat?
– Who is involved – directly or indirectly?– Why are they doing it?– Are there opportunities – factors that could contribute
to reducing the threat?
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If Necessary, Add Missing Factors
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2. Select Key Intervention Points
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Select “key intervention points” – factors that need to be changed to reduce the threat
2. Select Key Intervention Points
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Select “key intervention points” – factors that need to be changed to reduce the threat
3. Brainstorm Potential Strategies to Influence Key Intervention Points
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Advice for Strategy Brainstorming
• Consider the scale at which you are working and whether your strategies should be broader or more specific (e.g., a strategy at the site level could be an activity at the ecoregional level)
• Don’t limit yourself to typical strategies or what you are already doing – think broadly!
• Consider what your team will do vs. what other organizations/partners will do
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3. Brainstorm Potential Strategies to Influence Key Intervention PointsNot all strategies have to link directly
to a key intervention point. This strategy is designed to increase landowner awareness of laws by
involving them in land use planning
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3. Brainstorm Potential Strategies to Influence Key Intervention Points
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4. Rate Strategies – 2 Criteria
Potential Impact – Degree to which the strategy (if implemented) will lead to desired changes in the situation at your project site
•Very High – The strategy is very likely to completely mitigate a threat or restore a target. •High – The strategy is likely to help mitigate a threat or restore a target. •Medium – The strategy could possibly help mitigate a threat or restore a target. •Low – The strategy will probably not contribute to meaningful threat mitigation or target restoration.
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4. Rate Strategies – 2 criteria
Feasibility – Degree to which your project team could implement the strategy within likely time, financial, staffing, ethical, and other constraints
•Very High – The strategy is ethically, technically, AND financially feasible. •High – The strategy is ethically and technically feasible, but may require some additional financial resources. •Medium – The strategy is ethically feasible, but either technically OR financially difficult without substantial additional resources. •Low – The strategy is not ethically, technically, OR financially feasible.
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4. Rate Strategies in Miradi
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4. Rate Strategies in Miradi
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4. Rate Strategies in Miradi
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5. Select Final Strategies
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Weed out strategies not likely to be the most effective
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5. Select Final Strategies
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Weed out strategies not likely to be the most effective
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5. Select Final Strategies
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5. Select Final Strategies
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Final Strategies in the Conceptual Model
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6. Apply Criteria for Strategies
• Linked to Critical Factors: Directly affects one or more critical factors in your conceptual model
• Focused: Outlines specific courses of action that need to be carried out
• Feasible: Accomplishable in light of theproject's resources and constraints.
• Appropriate: Acceptable to and fitting within site-specific cultural, social, and biological norms.
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This Presentation
1. What Are Strategies
2. How to Brainstorm & Select Strategies
3. Example
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Example of a Strategy Brainstorm
San Luis Obispo Science and Ecosystem Alliance (SLOSEA, California, USA)
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Conservation strategies are a group of actions designed to enhance viability of a target (GOAL) and/or abate a critical threat (OBJECTIVE).
Goals & Objectives – What you want to accomplish
Strategies – How you are going to get there
Complex projects & problems require suite of strategies.
The job is to get the “colors” in the Viability and Threat tables from Red & Yellow to Green – often a life’s work.
3 to 5 well-crafted strategies is a lot of work!!!
Key Points Strategies
Relationship Between a Goal, Strategy and Activities
Goal (restoration)
Within five years replace 20 % of the lost mangrove population
Strategy 4. Establish a replanting program.
Activity #1 4.1 Collect seedlings
Activity #2 4.2 Cultivate plants
Activity #3 4.3 Organize volunteers
Activity #4 4.4 Prepare site and plant mangrove seedlings
Activity #5 4.5 Provide maintenance until seedlings are well established
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