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Collaboration in Community-Based Partnerships
What is the Focus?
To introduce participants to a collaborative, participatory approach to
resource management.
What Does NRCS Offer?
Consulting, guidance, training, partnership, facilitation.
What is an Example of a Community-Based Partnership?
STATEWIDE, CONNECTICUT – Natural resources management decision-making
requires public participation to ensure decisions will be acknowledged, as
appropriate, and implemented. Facilitators and coordinators work in a socially
complex environment with people who have different values, goals, and ways of
acting within a group. Coupling the social issues with already complex and
interrelated natural resources issues requires a holistic or ecological-view
approach that includes stakeholders. Managing or coordinating participation is
critical to enabling a successful and effective partnership.
This is particularly true for watershed or regional efforts that require broad
stakeholder participation and strive to be collaborative in nature. The goal of
a collaborative process is to meet the particular needs of the group that is
undertaking the effort, as well as to bring to light the natural resource issues
that need to be addressed comprehensively. To work in large, multi-stakeholder
groups, leaders of the effort need a particular set of skills to manage the
diverse and often competing interests that may exist within the group.
NRCS offers a set of modules that evolved from a series of workshops conducted
to assist people working on watershed and community-based planning efforts for
natural resources protection that focus on the procedural and social aspects of
watershed and community-based planning. These modules can be found on the
Connecticut NRCS website.
Who are the Partners?
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