About CCNet
Improve conservation by empowering
people to develop, implement, evaluate,
adapt and share
Our mission
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
About CCNet
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, Matrida Simfukwe, Genevieve Pence, Natalie Hayward, Claire Relton, Lauren Waller
CCNet Australia: Saras Kumar, Leah Feuerherdt
CCNet China: Jin Tong
CCNet Europe: Daniela Aschenbrenner, Lisa Ernoul and Peter Cranswick
CCNet Latin America: Irina Montenegro, Anita Diederichsen, Gustavo Gatti, Cristina Lasch
CCNet Mongolia: Munkchuluun Basan and Tuguldur (Tuugi) Enkhtsetseg
CCNet North America – Central: Doug Pearsall and John Paskus
CCNet North America – Eastern: Sara Gottlieb
CCNet North America – Western: Terri Schulz and Andrew Bridges
CCNet Pacific Islands: Trina Leberer and Emily Fielding
CCNet South Asia: Vacant
CCNet Southeast Asia: Choo Poh Leem and Lavernita Bingku
Communities of Practice
Indigenous CS projects and CS projects on Indigenous Land and Waters – Frank Weisenberger and Sam Bayley
Teaching Adaptive Management – Vinaya Swaminathan, Felix Cybulla and 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.