A Practitioners’ Guide, Designed to Support Land- & Seascape Collaboratives
NEW open-source toolkit with resources and guidance for every phase of a collaborative’s life cycle—from inception to sunsetting.
Land- and seascape stewardship collaboratives may take the form of regional stewardship networks, coalitions, joint ventures, or other partnership structures. Although working in this way isn’t new, the scale and complexity, as well as the expectations of what these groups can do, continues to grow.
In some regions, collaborative stewardship approaches have become the primary way of working. “Why should we collaborate?” is no longer the dominant question. Instead, many wonder, “How do we establish and design an effective collaborative?” and “What is needed to build, sustain, or renew or retire a collaborative?”
Answering these questions is the focus of this toolkit – which includes more than ninety exercises, worksheets, examples and resources. It is for anyone interested in learning about collaboratives but is particularly useful for those who are focused on their operational and administrative needs.