1. Regional Collaborative Partnerships- Raising the Bar for Improving Water Quality.pdf
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View this session of the NFWF Spotlight Series at: Regional Collaborative Partnerships-Raising the Bar for Improving Water Quality
About this session.
The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and US EPA have strategically invested through the Innovative Sediment & Nutrient Reduction program in "regional water quality collaboratives" based on research and evidence that shows that these partnerships are especially effective mechanisms for achieving and sustaining water quality improvements. What factors contribute to ensuring the success of a collaborative? How can partners improve growing and maturing well-functioning collaboratives that result in measurable, accelerated water quality improvements? In what circumstances is a collaborative the right mechanism for approaching an environmental challenge? This session is the first of five, and will focus on the research and identification of key areas that underpin a collaborative in being successful. The four sessions following this one will focus on different factors of success that regional collaboratives have embodied, and areas of opportunity for their growth, as we explore their mission, approach, and watershed and water quality efforts.
Other resources from this session.
About this session.
The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and US EPA have strategically invested through the Innovative Sediment & Nutrient Reduction program in "regional water quality collaboratives" based on research and evidence that shows that these partnerships are especially effective mechanisms for achieving and sustaining water quality improvements. What factors contribute to ensuring the success of a collaborative? How can partners improve growing and maturing well-functioning collaboratives that result in measurable, accelerated water quality improvements? In what circumstances is a collaborative the right mechanism for approaching an environmental challenge? This session is the first of five, and will focus on the research and identification of key areas that underpin a collaborative in being successful. The four sessions following this one will focus on different factors of success that regional collaboratives have embodied, and areas of opportunity for their growth, as we explore their mission, approach, and watershed and water quality efforts.
Other resources from this session.
- National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Program
- Ecosystem Restoration and Conservation Collaboratives
- Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impacts (pdf download)
- Partnership Impact Evaluation Guide (pdf download)
- The Regional Conservation Partnership Handbook
Presenters.
Jake Reilly, Director, Chesapeake Bay Programs, NFWF
Kristina Weaver, Associate Director, Institute for Engagement & Negotiation, UVA
Mike Foreman, Special Projects Manager, Institute for Engagement & Negotiation, UVA
Jennifer Miller Herzog, Eastern Division Director, Land Trust Alliance;
Kristen Saacke Blunk, Principal/Field Liaison, Headwaters LLC (moderator)