About CCNet

The Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet) is a global community of trained professional coaches that use the Conservation Standards to strengthen conservation action and results around the world

The Conservation Standards are a free, common structure practitioners can use to promote evidence-based excellence in practice and learn from each other across organizational, geographic, cultural, temporal or spatial barriers.

CCNet trains and supports Conservation Coaches to lead Conservation Standards-based projects and programs. Coaches help teams identify strategies, develop measures, capture and articulate uncertainties; they encourage on-going assessment and continuity of effort; they link practitioners with other support services and identify peer projects with similar challenges. Coaches actively promote the Conservation Standards around the world.

While CCNet has a core team that manages the alliance globally, its heart and soul are Regional Networks that support and train coaches on a regional basis. Regional Networks engage volunteer Leads who provide coordination for local members and serve as liaisons to the CCNet Board. Leads recruit Co-Leads to serve as point persons for various sub-committees or sub-geographic regions. Leads submit an annual report on the past and future year’s activities to the Global Coordinator.

Regional Networks aim to:

• ensure the Network Leader has the support of a core team who together drive the regional or thematic network;

• tap the talents of high energy individuals (university students, other NGOs, etc.);

• ensure a variety of training opportunities;

• maintain an overview of people who want to become a coach, and of coaches who would like to be involved in training other coaches;

• encourage coaches to use self assessment tools

• maintain network web-presence and news distribution service (newsletter, etc.);

• stay connected to global CCNet Coordinating Team (via email, Board Calls, feeding stories into the global newsletter, etc.);

• access a bit of working capital.

Communities of Practice

In addition to the Regional Networks, there are Communities of Practice – working groups of coaches organized around a particular theme.

Here are the current Regional Networks and Communities of Practice (click below to be taken to a page devoted to each network):

Regional Networks

CCNet Africa: Nibani Houssine, Anne Ntongho, Musa Cheryiot, Genevieve Pence, Natalie Hayward, Claire Relton, Lauren Waller

CCNet Australia: Clair Dougherty, Natalie Holland

CCNet China: Jin Tong

CCNet Europe: Daniela Aschenbrenner, Lisa Ernoul & Peter Cranswick

CCNet Latin America: Irina Montenegro, Anita Diederichsen, Gustavo Gatti, Estuardo Secaira, Cristina Lasch

CCNet Mongolia: Munkchuluun Basan & Tuguldur (Tuugi) Enkhtsetseg

CCNet North America – Central: Doug Pearsall & John Paskus

CCNet North America – Eastern: Sara Gottlieb

CCNet North America – Western: Terri Schulz & Andrew Bridges

CCNet Pacific Islands: Trina Leberer & Emily Fielding

CCNet South Asia: Vacant

CCNet Southeast Asia: Felix Cybulla, Annette Olson & Lavernita Bingku

Communities of Practice

Indigenous CS projects and CS projects on Indigenous Land and Waters – Frank Weisenberger & Stuart Cowell

Teaching Adaptive Management – Vinaya Swaminathan, Felix Cybulla & Armando Valdés-Velásquez

If you are a Coach thinking about starting a new Regional Network in an underserved region, or a new Community of Practice please contact John Morrison.