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User Needs Assessment/ Performance Indicators

Explore IABIN's user typology, performance indicators, and data utilization strategies for impactful conservation outcomes. Recommendations focus on user engagement, strategic partnerships, and case study development.

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User Needs Assessment/ Performance Indicators

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  1. User Needs Assessment/ Performance Indicators • combined break-out group

  2. IABIN Users • Large universe of potential IABIN clients • IABIN needs a typology to cluster groups of users and applications • Are the intended users the most important users? How do you know?

  3. Performance Indicators • IABIN has a challenge in establishing a causal relationship between donor investments and conservation results • Project performance indicators are not the same as biodiversity status indicators • IABIN’s project performance indicators do not tell anything about IABIN’s impact

  4. Pragmatics Performance Considerations • Do IABIN inputs leverage other projects (e.g., the GEF projects involving protected areas?) • How can IABIN data holdings be packaged into products relevant to the intended users? • expert databases and human networks • Can IABIN aggregate across a portfolio of biodiversity projects using status indicators?

  5. Target Users according to PAD • operational users, e.g., national park managers • subnational users - municipal or provincial authorities • national authorities • regional or global programs

  6. Examples of IABIN data in operations • management effectiveness tracking tools • basic biodiversity indicators

  7. Examples of IABIN data at subnational level • IABIN ETN has developed a risk assessment tool for Lake Nicaragua and associated watersheds and produced risk assessment maps • IABIN ETN has produced a maximum entropy forecasting system for certain invasive species in Belize

  8. Examples of IABIN data at national level • NORAD, World Bank funded IABIN ETN to produce Dengue Forecasting system for Nicaragua • Potential national products include overlays: • Biodiversity and poverty maps • Pollinator distributions and protected areas • Protected areas and hydropower

  9. IABIN data at regional and global levels • A potential data product is the production of an annual state of the environment report for Central America based upon the CCAD biodiversity indicators

  10. Recommendations • IABIN needs to test assumptions in PAD of the four classes of users • IABIN must track and evaluate its data user • through on-line user registration, surveys • also track back through the TNs - consult with TNs on how they track users

  11. Recommendations (cont.) • IABIN should engage strategic partners as data brokers - e.g. GEF implementing agencies UNEP, UNDP, and the World Bank

  12. Recommendations (cont.) • IABIN should produce strong case study materials (case studies, powerpoints) and/or develop new products to demonstrate IABIN applicability across the four user groups • Input to Mission statement: IABIN should position itself to become the premier vehicle for evidence-based conservation in the Americas

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