Tools & Innovations Marketplace
When the tide goes out, the table is set
Emily Fielding, Rebecca Most
The Malama I Ke Kai: Community Action Guide was published in 2020 by the Maui Nui Makai Network as a community friendly version of the Conservation Standards. The Guide integrates fundamental and time-tested components of community-based Conservation Standards planning and personal lessons learned from Network members, serving as both a facilitator’s guide and participant workbook. Its practical four-step process helps groups build cohesiveness, gain a deeper understanding of their area, develop a Community Action Plan, and enlist support for their efforts.
The Maui Nui Makai Network's website
The Malama I Ke Kai: Community Action Guide
Elizabeth Oneill, Sheila O'Connor, David Wilkie
Come check out a new tool to help Community Support Partners shift from potentially too narrow and Community-based natural resource governance projects to those that more comprehensively support the establishment of key ingredients to successful, durable Community-led Natural Resource Governance (CNRG). The tool provides a simple, easy-to-use approach to assess the status of the wide array of key factors that must line up for effective, lasting CNRG enabling factors. In this proactive versus threat-reactive approach, coaches will see familiar factors as well as critical elements that maybe they hadn't thought of or know much about. An interactive feedback space also will be available for coaches to tell us whether the list of factors captures the right ones and prioritizes them correctly.
CCNet SNAPP Community Natural Resources Governance slides
SNAPP Community Natural Resources Governance Working Group brochure
SNAPP Community Natural Resources Governance Working Group website
Climate-Resilient Conservation Standards Tools
Lexine Hansen, Marcia Brown, Varsha Suresh
The impacts of climate change on biodiversity are already apparent and are growing worse. Conservation coaches need to be able to help managers think of and plan for those impacts. What better way than by using tools that integrate these issues right into the Conservation Standards processes and approaches? In 2020, the CMP Climate Guidance Working Group collaborated with GIZ to develop Climate-Smart Conservation Practice, a guidance document that adapts the Conservation Standards for climate-smart or climate-resilient conservation. The guidance is intended to support practitioners undertaking conservation planning in the face of the uncertainties caused by climate change. Based on this guidance, FOS and Environmental Incentives have been designing and piloting new tools for coaches. This booth will share not only the tools, but the lessons we're learning to ensure coaches are ready to address the critical climate threats to conservation targets.
Tools to Strengthen Equity in Practice
Olivia Millard, Shannon Thol
TNC's Conservation by Design team has developed three new tools to help coaches and practitioners reflect on equity in conservation planning and take steps to strengthen equity in practice. The “Interested Parties Assessment Tool” is an evolution of a "stakeholder assessment" that goes beyond the classic influence/interest analysis. It guides practitioners to identify a broad set of Interested Parties in the system, and encourages them to consider power imbalances, and how different groups experience inequities. The “Spectrum of Engagement” helps a planning team define engagement goals and drive towards co-creation with key Interested Parties. Practitioners are encouraged to consider how they have engaged with groups in the past, how groups have been negatively impacted by prior conservation actions, and how groups are burdened or harmed by the current situation in the system. A “Retrospective” tool for pausing and reflecting at the end of a planning process that highlights equity considerations, and then prompts teams to articulate learnings, adjustments and actions to improve their practice in the future. These tools have been developed through an iterative process and have been tested by conservation teams. We welcome coaches to stop by, try out the tools, and offer feedback on how we can continue to improve them.
Spectrum of Engagement Facilitator Guide (2022)
Defining Objectives Facilitator Guide
Interested Parties Assessment Tool Facilitator Guide
Interested Parties Assessment Tool Participant Overview
Cristina Lasch, Gustavo Gatti, Lavernita Bingku, Trina Leberer
Did you know we have our very own Network Weavers who connect us so we can engage with others to solve problems in our own language and cultural context, while allowing us to exchange successes and failures around the world so we can all advance more rapidly and increase our impact? CCNet operates globally through groups or clusters of coaches that share a geographic area or other specialized interest that work together on a regular basis to assess needs, set priorities, and support planning and training events in different languages. Find out who serves in leadership roles, what each Regional Network or Community of Practice is up to, or sign up to connect with colleagues in a specific region. Here you can also learn about our strategic plan for CCNet and how you can contribute to our collective efforts.
Pacific Islands poster
North America poster
Australia & New Zealand poster
Southeast Asia poster
Latin America poster
China poster
Indigenous Lands & Water poster
Teaching Adaptive Management poster
Alexia Preston, Shannon Thol
Hone new skills in conservation coaching and learn about different ways of working that conservationists across the globe are using to improve, accelerate, and sustain conservation impact while navigating uncertainty. Come by to learn more about the Agility Lab's methodologies adapted from the private sector, gain access to resources, and find information about their workshop offerings for teams creating equitable, enduring, and accelerated conservation impact. There will be engaging activities, too! Agility Lab Key Offerings: Design Sprints: A three-to-five-day deep dive, collaborative experience bringing teams together to identify and explore existing challenges and opportunities, discuss new solutions, and prototype new concepts with key stakeholders before investing more time and money. Theory of Change: Through a facilitated workshop series, teams develop a lightweight, living Theory of Change that helps to 1) communicate the teams’ work to leadership, advisors, donors, and others and 2) foster team alignment and commitment to the work and collective vision. Rapid Adaptive Management (RAM): An implementation approach for teams navigating a high degree of uncertainty, RAM helps teams learn and adapt, regularly realign on their priorities, and build psychological safety.
Agility Lab Design Sprint 2-Pager
Read more about the Agility Lab here.
Catherine Payne, Caroline Stem, Ash Baker
Recent years have brought an increase in options for getting basic training in the Conservation Standards. But, which options are right for you, your staff, or your colleagues? Come visit this booth and learn about the variety of courses and the differing needs they serve. If you have a basic CS course open to the public, stop by and learn how you can get your course vetted and shared on the CS website.
CS Trainings.- Basic Training Options
Ryan Mitchell, Caroline Stem, Erica Cochrane, Will Beale
Do you wonder what CMP is and what it does? Do you know how CMP and CCNet collaborate? Do you want to make a difference and help our community achieve the biggest impact we can? Come visit our booth and learn about all the active and exciting initiatives CMP is advancing, including those we are doing in partnership with CCNet. We are here to answer your questions, tell you more about CMP, get you involved in initiatives, and even help you determine if your organization should consider CMP membership!
Kari Stiles
Learn about the latest developments and future plans for advancing Miradi software! The Miradi development team would love your input on the future of Miradi.
Cristina Lasch, Anita Diederichsen, Irina Montenegro
Come reflect on your experience and lessons and share some bones of wisdom we can all take home for our practice as conservation coaches. As coaches our job is to foster reflection and provide sound constructive criticism to the teams we support, and while doing so we need to find the dangerous or weak spots to protect the process and contribute to the best possible results, but we also need to be respectful and caring when we provide feedback. So we all should aspire to behave like “loving junk-yard dogs”. Lessons and advice will be collected and photos will be shared back to the CCNet community.
What is a loving junkyard dog?