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 Haydendhayden@rareconservation.org