Session 6: Building collaboration in biosecurity innovation systems

biosecurity built on science

Building collaborative biosecurity innovation systemsDr Cathy RobinsonCSIRO

Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre


Why?- Detecting, diagnosing and responding to biosecurity threats require that

community, government, and industry have a shared knowledge base,

motivation and commitment to their biosecurity responsibilities

- Innovative partnerships between industry, government and community

exists ….but can be challenging

Social innovation for better biosecurityEffective biosecurity surveillance relies on social innovation as well as technical innovation


How?Targeted stakeholder engagement strategies to fit the biophysical context, social and institutional context, and (preparedness, surveillance, investigation and alert) modes

Curnock, M, Robinson, C, Fabatko, C. In review. Factors that influence why community gardeners are engaged, disengaged and unengaged in biosecurity in Northern Queensland, Geographic Research

Social innovation for better biosecurity

We need to build social innovation through partnerships


50 shades of collaboration for biosecurity


Challenges of collaboration for biosecurity

• current biosecurity governance network favours within-scale interactions rather than cross-scale interactions

• limited cross-scale interactions can challenge efforts to build trust between stakeholders and ensure coordination of decisions across scales

McAllister R, Robinson CJ, Maclean K, Guerrero A, Collins K, Taylor B, De Barro P. 2015. From local to central: A network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales. Ecology and Society 20(1): 67.


Challenges of collaboration for biosecurity

Different stakeholder groups trust and use different kinds of information and information sources to assess biosecurity risk

Stakeholder Engagement

Robinson CJ, Maclean K, Hill R, Bock E, Rist P. 2015. Participatory mapping to negotiate Indigenous knowledge used to assess environmental risk. Sustainability Science.


Stakeholder engagement for surveillance

Stakeholder engagement

• drives collaborative partnerships• key mechanism for assessing and managing biosecurity risks• needs to occur across all decision-making levels• needs to occur during all biosecurity operations• requires time to build relationships, mutual learning and trust


Stakeholder engagement for Collaboration toolkit

Stage 1

Stage 2

Evaluate the performance of

stakeholder engagement

strategies

Identify key stakeholders

Develop desired objectives for stakeholder engagement

Build consensus on which engagement strategies will give the best return on

investment

Create a suite of stakeholder engagement

strategies

Who to engage? – Identify key stakeholders

Why engage? – Develop desired objectives for stakeholder engagement

How to engage? – Create a suite of appropriate stakeholder engagement strategies

Success? – Evaluate the performance of each stakeholder engagement strategy

Bang for buck? – Build consensus on which engagement strategies will give the best return on investment


Stakeholder engagement toolkit - applications

http://www.pbcrc.com.au/research/project/4004

Banana Freckle, Myrtle Rust and Panama Disease Tropical Race 4 incursions & NAQs and community garden surveillance activities

• Which stakeholder engagement activities will enable biosecurity knowledge and responsibility to be shared ?

• Which stakeholder is engaged, disengaged or un-engaged in a biosecurity issue (and why?)

• How can we create or refine partnerships to allow community, industry and government to work together better across multiple decision-making scales?


Thank you

Dr Cathy RobinsonPrincipal Research Scientist

CSIRO

Session 6: Building collaboration in biosecurity innovation systems

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