Daniel Hayden, Rare Marcia Brown, Foundations of Success

1. Misanthropes, Conservationists & Credibility: Connecting Human Wellbeing to Conservation Planning in Theory and Practice Daniel Hayden, Rare Marcia Brown, Foundations of Success Daniel Hayden, Rare

2. 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

3. CMP Working Group • Daniel Hayden • Caroline Stem, IlkeTilders 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 )

4. The Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP): A Growing Network

5. Why this hard

7. 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

8. Why Standards are Important • Enable opportunities for strengthening projects • Clarify language and concepts • Increase transparency and accountability • Create opportunities for learning across projects

9. What is Adaptive Management? The integration of project or program planning, management, and monitoring to provide a framework for: • Testing assumptions • Learning • Adapting

10. 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

11. CMP’s Approach F Step Approach to Adaptive Management www.conservationmeasures.org

12. Step 1: Scoping Define Where You Are Working

13. Direct Threats Targets Step 1: Scoping Define What You Want to Conserve – and Threats to It

14. Step 2: Identify Conservation Strategies

15. Step 3: Implement Actions & Monitor Their Effectiveness

16. Step 4: Analyze Monitoring Data, Use, Adapt Actions

17. Step 5: Capture & Share Learning

18. Issue We are Trying to FixApplying Adaptive Planning to the Open Standards • Recognize and understand human needs and the links between conservation and human wellbeing • Open Standards to work in complex, multi-stakeholder situations • Prove to our constituency that there is a benefit to them beyond biodiversity

19. Background on adaptive management and the CMP Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation • What is Human Wellbeing • Broad overview of Human Wellbeing Targets

20. 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

21. 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.”

22. 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; • Healthincluding 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; • Securityincluding 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.

23. 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.

24. 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

25. Background on adaptive management and the CMP Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation • What is Human Wellbeing • Broad overview of Human Wellbeing Targets

27. Human Wellbeing Targets in OS Version 3.0? Four Main Concepts: • Explicit recognition and definition of Human Wellbeing within OS (optional) • Link to conservation targets via ecosystem services • Socially beneficial results and human wellbeing targets are not the same • Parameters for HWT goals

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. Link to conservation targets via ecosystem services 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

31. 2. Link to conservation targets via ecosystem services Identifying your ecosystem services and human wellbeing targets is often a parallel and iterative process Provisioning Eucalyptus Woodlands Timber sources & products Regulating Seasonally Flooded Wetlands Water flow regulation Fringing Shrublands Cultural Blue Billed Ducks Populations of ducks for viewing Water for drinking Permanent Lakes Regulating

32. OS have always allowed teams to show socially beneficial results Case 1: HWB enhanced via socially-oriented strategy General Relationship Specific Example Eco-certification of timber harvesting Loggers get more money for certified products Result directly benefiting humans

33. HWTs are new – and not the same as socially beneficial results Case 2: HWB enhanced via ecosystem services General Relationship Specific Example Improved filtering capacity Availability of clean water Strengthening of law enforcement Forest conserved Patrolling happens… Illegal loggers caught & fined Illegal logging declines Human health Forestry livelihoods Access to timber over long term Ecosystem service results contributing to human wellbeing

34. HWTs and socially beneficial results are not the same Case 3: HWB enhanced via multiple avenues General Relationship Ecosystem service results contributing to human wellbeing Specific Example Improved filtering capacity Availability of clean water Eco-certification of timber harvesting Loggers get more money for certified products Human health Access to timber over long term Forestry livelihoods Result also contributing to human wellbeing Result directly benefiting humans

35. 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 levels • But, YES to goals related to access to food sources because conserved biological targets are improving crop pollination services

36. 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 Hayden dhayden@rareconservation.org