About CCNet
Improve conservation by empowering
people to develop, implement, evaluate,
adapt and share
Improve conservation by empowering
people to develop, implement, evaluate,
adapt and share
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, 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.