The Riverprize Twinning Program - Bierly

The Willamette Challenge

What Happens After the Award?

Twinning

Mentoring partnerships across the globe to restore rivers

Transfer valuable knowledge and experience to other river groups facing similar challenges

Exchange of knowledge and skills to ensure rivers are restored efficiently, effectively and sustainably

Twinning

Connect Riverprize Alumni with river managemers/restoration groups in need of their expertise

Be a catalyst for best practices for river restoration

Twinning

We are funders linked with land trusts and watershed councils

We have very strong and critical science advisors

We have a complex and strong public agency involvement

We have a number of strongly committed landowners

What do the Willamette Partners Offer?

Personal Relationship with the “twin” group

High levels of motivation Available skills Key public support Adequate funding

What Criteria Should We Use?

Geography (Similar latitude?) Local connections (by someone

who can be involved) Language capacity Match of Skills (ours) with Need

(theirs)

Who Might be Compatible?

Business Case Proposal to The International RiverFoundation

3-5 year business plan with milestones and deliverables

$100,000 for the twinning Memorandum of Understanding with the

chosen “twin” Report “key performance indicators”

What is Needed?

Communications Database of interested groups Suggestions for funding Cross cultural communications advice Mentor for issues that may arise Organizational (International

RiverFoundation) support

International RiverFoundation Assistance