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Misanthropes, Conservationists & Credibility: Connecting Human Wellbeing to Conservation Planning in Theory and Practice. Daniel Hayden, Rare Marcia Brown, Foundations of Success. Daniel Hayden, Rare. This Presentation. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Daniel Hayden, RareMarcia Brown, Foundations of Success
Misanthropes, Conservationists & Credibility: Connecting Human Wellbeing to Conservation Planning
in Theory and Practice
Daniel Hayden, Rare
This Presentation
• Background on adaptive management and the CMP Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation
• What is Human Wellbeing• Broad overview of Human Wellbeing Targets
CMP Working Group
• Daniel Hayden• Caroline Stem, Ilke Tilders and Marcia Brown • Judy Boshoven (formerly )• Cristina Lasch• Eduardo Secaira, Consultant for • Jean Gael Collomb• Madeleine Bottrill• Barbara Best• David Wilkie• Judy Braus, NAAEE (formerly )
The Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP): A Growing Network
Why this hard
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Conservation Measures Partnership’s Open Standards
• Developed by leading conservation organizations
• Draw on many fields• Open source &
common language• Used around the world
• State Wildlife Agencies• National Park Systems• Donor Funding Programs• Academic Training
Why Standards are Important
• Enable opportunities for strengthening projects
• Clarify language and concepts
• Increase transparency and accountability
• Create opportunities for learning across projects
What is Adaptive Management?
The integration of project or program planning, management, and monitoring to provide a framework for:
• Testing assumptions• Learning• Adapting
Key Features of the Open Standards
• Threat-based view of conservation• Focus on building logic models / theory of
change• Belief that measurement are essential part of:
• Adaptive management• Accountability
• Results-based
CMP’s Approach F Step Approach to Adaptive Management
www.conservationmeasures.org
Step 1: ScopingDefine Where You Are Working
Step 1: ScopingDefine What You Want to Conserve – and Threats to It
TargetsDirect Threats
Step 2: Identify Conservation Strategies
Step 3: Implement Actions & Monitor Their Effectiveness
Step 4: Analyze Monitoring Data, Use, Adapt Actions
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Step 5: Capture & Share Learning
Issue We are Trying to FixApplying Adaptive Planning to the Open Standards
1. Recognize and understand human needs and the links between conservation and human wellbeing
2. Open Standards to work in complex, multi-stakeholder situations
3. Prove to our constituency that there is a benefit to them beyond biodiversity
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• Background on adaptive management and the CMP Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation
• What is Human Wellbeing• Broad overview of Human Wellbeing Targets
Definitions
• Goals – what you are trying to achieve at the end of the conservation interventions
• Targets – how much of the goal you expect to achieve
• Indicators – measures that help you know you are reaching your goals
Definition: Conservation Organization(One of these groups is not like the others …)
A conservation organization is an entity whose primary mission is conservation.
To explore, enjoy and protect the planet
Save the Bay™, and keep it saved, as defined by reaching a 70 on CBF's Health Index.
The Bridgestone Group's mission is based on the words of its founder: “Serving Society with Superior Quality.”
Definition: Human Well Being
• Necessary material for a good lifeincluding secure and adequate livelihoods, income and assets, enough food at all times, shelter, furniture, clothing, and access to goods;
• Health including being strong, feeling well, and having a healthy physical environment;
• Good social relationsincluding social cohesion, mutual respect, good gender and family relations, and the ability to help others and provide for children;
• Security including secure access to natural and other resources, safety of person and possessions, and living in a predictable and controllable environment with security from natural and human-made disasters; and
• Freedom and choice:including having control over what happens and being able to achieve what a person values doing or being.
Definition: Ecosystem Services
• Provisioning services: Products obtained from ecosystem e.g. food and water
• Regulating services: Benefits obtained from regulation of ecosystem processes e.g. crop pollination
• Supporting services: Services necessary for production of all other ecosystem services e.g. soil formation
• Cultural services: Non - material benefits obtained from ecosystems through spiritual enrichment, cognitive development, reflection, recreation, and aesthetic experiences.
Credibility Organizational limits shape choices
• Culture: Most conservation organizations think of people as problems
• Skills: Most conservation organizations have few social scientist
• Resources: Most conservation organizations have limited funding
• Commitment: Most conservation organizations don’t even do conservation that well …
• … but, if you say you are going to include people, than you need to prioritize people just like nature
NGOs must focus on where they really can help,
not just want to help
• Background on adaptive management and the CMP Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation
• What is Human Wellbeing• Broad overview of Human Wellbeing Targets
Human Wellbeing Targets in OS Version 3.0?
Four Main Concepts:
1. Explicit recognition and definition of Human Wellbeing within OS (optional)
2. Link to conservation targets via ecosystem services
3. Socially beneficial results and human wellbeing targets are not the same
4. Parameters for HWT goals
What are Human Wellbeing Targets?
Human wellbeing target definition: Aspects of human wellbeing that the project chooses to focus on. In the context of a conservation project, human wellbeing targets focus on those components of human wellbeing affected by the status of conservation targets.
What are Human Wellbeing Targets?
Human wellbeing target definition: Aspects of human wellbeing that the project chooses to focus on. In the context of a conservation project, human wellbeing targets focus on those components of human wellbeing affected by the status of conservation targets.
Human wellbeing is achieved via ecosystem services provided by functioning conservation targets
Services that intact, functioning ecosystems, species, and habitats provide and that can benefit people
Link to conservation targets via ecosystem services
Identifying your ecosystem services and human wellbeing targets is often a parallel and iterative process
Timber sources & products
Eucalyptus Woodlands
Seasonally Flooded
Wetlands
Fringing Shrublands
Blue Billed Ducks
Permanent Lakes
Water flow regulation
Populations of ducks for viewing
Water for drinking
Regulating
Regulating
Provisioning
Cultural
2. Link to conservation targets via ecosystem services
OS have always allowed teams to show socially beneficial results
Result directly benefiting humans
Specific Example
General Relationship
Loggers get more money for
certified products
Eco-certification of timber
harvesting
Case 1: HWB enhanced via socially-oriented strategy
Ecosystem service results contributing to human wellbeing
Case 2: HWB enhanced via ecosystem services
General Relationship
Specific ExamplePatrolling happens…
Illegal loggers caught & fined
Access to timber over long term
Illegal logging declines
Improved filtering capacity
Availability of clean water
Forestry livelihoods
Strengthening of law
enforcement
Human health
Forest conserved
HWTs are new – and not the same as socially beneficial results
HWTs and socially beneficial results are not the same
Result directly benefiting humans
Case 3: HWB enhanced via multiple avenues
General Relationship
Specific Example
Loggers get more money for certified
products
Eco-certification of timber harvesting
Result also contributing to human wellbeing
Access to timber over long term
Improved filtering capacity
Availability of clean water
Human health
Forestry livelihood
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Ecosystem service results contributing to human wellbeing
Parameters for Human Wellbeing Goals
• If a team sets HWT goals, they should be clearly dependent upon the status of the conservation target(s) and/or the ecosystem services they provide
• Example: For a HWT of “Human Health”:NO to goals related to reducing HIV infection or
decreasing cholesterol levelsBut, YES to goals related to access to food sources
because conserved biological targets are improving crop pollination services
Benefits of the New Standards
• Allows organizations to choose whether to include human wellbeing
• Maintains the mission focus on conservation
• Updates language to reflect current opportunities and practices
• Enable conservationists to more effectively incorporate human wellbeing
To Learn More:
Reading:http://www.fosonline.org/
resource/human-wellbeing-targets
Daniel [email protected]