Integrating Human Wellbeing in the Open Standards

1. Integrating Human Wellbeing in the Open Standards Guidance and Innovations Presenters: Daniel Hayden (Rare) and Caroline Stem (FOS) CCNet Rally, April 30, 2013

2. Agenda and Outcomes Outcomes: Participants will gain an understanding of the concepts in the CMP guidance on human wellbeing targets Participants will practice with and learn how to apply the guidance Participants will learn about real-world application of the guidance, what worked, what didn’t, and what teams learned in applying it Organizers will solicit commitments from participants to test the guidance and share feedback to improve and adapt it over time Agenda • Background on human well being • Broad Overview of What’s In the Open Standards • So, What Now?? • Question and Answer • Description of Working Group Activity • Speed Round Presentations

3. Agenda • Background • Broad Overview of What’s In the Open Standards • So, What Now?? • Question and Answer • Description of Working Group Activity • Speed Round Presentations

4. Cross Organizational Collaboration • CMP working group from Summit 2010 • Working group follow up in September 2011 (FOS staff, Judy Boshoven, and Judy Braus) • FOS lab meeting – October 2011 (Amielle DeWan, Cristina Lasch, Estuardo Secaira, John Morrison, Judy Boshoven, Tess Present & FOS) • Working group from Measures Summit 2011 Produced revisions to OS (accepted May 2012), developed guidance (accepted June 2012)

5. Are Conservationist Misanthropes?

6. What People Have Been Saying • There is no way we can work here without addressing or recognizing human needs • We have to prove to our constituency that there is a benefit to them beyond biodiversity • Open Standards do not work in complex social situations

7. How We Have Dealt with It Clarified how strategies are often social in nature and done in service of conservation

8. How We Have Dealt with It Conservation targets with a single link over to human wellbeing targets

9. How We Have Dealt with It Ecosystem services as human wellbeing targets

10. How We Have Dealt with It Ecosystem Services as factors between conservation and human wellbeing targets

11. How We Have Dealt with It Human wellbeing target in direct conflict with conservation

12. How We Have Dealt with It Socioeconomic indicators, other factors outside conservation domain

13. Ad hoc Approaches Are Not Sufficient • Repeated requests for greater clarity about relationships between conservation and human wellbeing targets • Funding sources are increasingly insisting upon a link between people and nature • Not making strong cases across stakeholders

14. Opportunity through Consistency • Opportunities for strengthening projects • Clarity of language and concepts • Strengthening of the Open Standards • Opportunities for learning across projects

15. Topics • Background • Broad Overview of What’s In the Open Standards • So, What Now?? • Question and Answer • Description of Working Group Activity

16. What Is in OS Version 3.0 Four Key Elements Clarifying Links • Explicit recognition and definition of Human Wellbeing within OS • Link to conservation targets via ecosystem services • Socially beneficial results and human wellbeing targets are not the same • Parameters for HWT goals The OS does not proscribe that you do human wellbeing, but if you do it proscribes how to do it

17. 1. Explicit recognition and definition of Human Wellbeing within OS 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. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment defines human wellbeing as including: • Necessary material for a good life • Health • Good social relations • Security • Freedom and choice

18. 1. (continued) Explicit recognition and definition of Human Wellbeing within OS If adding HWT, do so in Step 1D, Complete Situation Analysis

19. 2. 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

20. 3. Socially beneficial results and HWTs are not the same Case 1: HWB enhanced via socially-oriented strategy General Relationship Eco-certification of timber harvesting Specific Example Loggers get more money for certified products Result directly benefiting humans

21. 3. Socially beneficial results and HWTs are not the same 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

22. 4. (continued) 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 • So, 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 If it matters, measure it. If you don’t manage it, don’t measure it.

23. Why We Should Use a Common Approach to Address Human Wellbeing • Create clarity about relationship between conservation and human wellbeing and about what teams are trying to achieve • Improves the Open Standards • Speak a common language, compare across projects, and learn from one another • Prove that we are not misanthropes

24. Topics • Background • Broad Overview of What’s In the Open Standards • So, What Now?? • Question and Answer • Description of Working Group Activity

25. Human Wellbeing – How To in Four Essential Steps Address within Situation Analysis (Step 1D) • Determine whose wellbeing you are interested in • Identify ecosystem services affected by conservation target status (MA categories) and link to conservation targets • Identify human wellbeing targets and link to ecosystem services • Be clear about socially beneficial results and human wellbeing targets • If relevant, identify key attributes of human wellbeing and set human wellbeing goals • If relevant, identify indicators for ecosystem services and/or human wellbeing

26. 1. Determine Whose Wellbeing • Whose wellbeing are we actually targeting? • Thematic (example: all parties along a particular supply chain?) • Geographic (example: all people that live within the Scope of the project? Wider? Global?) • What about future generations?

27. 2. Identify Ecosystem Services Source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Framework is for brainstorming! Actual categories do not matter – just clarity on what an ecosystem service is

28. 2. Identify Ecosystem Services Provisioning Timber sources & products Eucalyptus Woodlands Identifying your ecosystem services and human wellbeing targets is often a parallel and iterative process Regulating Eucalyptus Woodlands Water flow regulation Fringing Shrublands Cultural Blue Billed Ducks Populations of ducks for viewing Permanent Lakes Water for drinking Regulating

29. 3. Identify Human Wellbeing Targets • Necessary material for a good life: including 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 relations: including 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 Source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Again, framework is for brainstorming! Actual categories do not matter – just clarity on what a human wellbeing target is

30. 3. Identify Human Wellbeing Targets

31. 3. Identify Human Wellbeing Targets Timber sources & products Eucalyptus Woodlands Forestry dependent livelihoods Necessary material Eucalyptus Woodlands Unpredictable water flow regulation Security from natural disasters Security Fringing Shrublands Spiritual health Health Blue Billed Ducks Limited populations of ducks for viewing Tourism dependent livelihoods Necessary material Physical health Permanent Lakes Pollutants in water Health

32. 4. Be clear about socially beneficial results and human wellbeing targets Case 1: HWB enhanced via socially-oriented strategy General Relationship Eco-certification of timber harvesting Specific Example Loggers get more money for certified products Result directly benefiting humans

33. 4. Be clear about socially beneficial results and human wellbeing targets Case 1: HWB enhanced via socially-oriented strategy

34. 4. Be clear about socially beneficial results and human wellbeing targets Case 2: HWB enhanced via ecosystem services General Relationship Specific Example Prevention of New Zealand mudsnail introduction Boat owners educated; Clean boats after each outing Reduction in introduction/ spread of NZ mudsnail Human health Fish available for consumption Freshwater fish & invertebrates Tourism livelihoods Fish available for sports fishing Ecosystem service results contributing to human wellbeing

35. 4. Be clear about socially beneficial results and human wellbeing targets Case 3: HWB enhanced via multiple avenues General Relationship Ecosystem service results contributing to human wellbeing Specific Example Eco-certification of timber harvesting Loggers get more money for certified products Human health Improved filtering capacity Availability of clean water Access to timber over long term Forestry livelihoods Result also contributing to human wellbeing Result directly benefiting humans

36. Choose one of the following 2 slides for goals (or add your own): For both, I would make the point that your goal has to be directly related to an ecosystem service provided that improves HWB. What do you all think? If we use Slide 42, is it useful to have 2 examples? I’m on the fence, but I lean toward keeping 2 just to give people more examples of what this looks like

37. We’re not covering goals, but keep in mind… • Reliable access to natural areas/wildlife in good condition • Supply of tourists interested in nature tourism • Access to markets, right contacts • Good business acumen X X X • Access to clean water in sufficient quantity • Access to clean air • Access to areas for recreation • Access to good quality health care X

38. We’re not covering goals, but keep in mind… By 2030 and thereafter, damage to homes and farms from drought and flooding has decreased by at least 75%, compared to 2010 levels Goals: By 2030 and thereafter, fewer than 10 cases of water-borne diseases are recorded annually within the region

39. Take-Away Points • Human wellbeing targets achieved via ecosystem services provided by functioning conservation targets • BUT conservation strategies can also directly improve human wellbeing Salmon Increased stocks of commercial fish Fish. DepdtLivelihoods Eco-certification of timber harvesting Loggers get more money for certified products

40. Take-Away Points • If relevant, add HWT during your situation analysis • It doesn’t matter what framework you use for brainstorming ecosystem services or HWTs – but, be clear about the difference and relationships

41. Topics • Background • Broad Overview of What’s In the Open Standards • So, What Now?? • Question and Answer • Description of Working Group Activity

42. Topics • Background • Broad Overview of What’s In the Open Standards • So, What Now?? • Question and Answer • Description of Working Group Activity

43. Question and Answer

44. Working Group Activity • Objective: Practices by using human wellbeing targets through an actual example • Output: Human wellbeing targets incorporated into a results chain • Process: • Review Concept model • Create Results Chains • Discuss: • Why you chose to present human wellbeing this way • What are the consequences of this approach (pro/cons) • Implications for your conservation project • Time: 100 Min • 30 Concept model • 60 Results chains • 10 min reflections

45. Tropical Forest Exercise

46. Illustrative: Marine Concept Model

47. Agenda • Background • Broad Overview of What’s In the Open Standards • So, What Now?? • Question and Answer • Description of Working Group Activity • Speed Round Presentations

48. Did We Achieve Our Desired Outcomes? • Participants will gain an understanding of the concepts in the CMP guidance on human wellbeing targets • Participants will practice with and learn how to apply the guidance • Participants will learn about real-world application of the guidance, what worked, what didn’t, and what teams learned in applying it • Organizers will solicit commitments from participants to test the guidance and share feedback to improve and adapt it over time

49. Thank You What’s Next?