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3 Evaluating the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Network Strategic Plan
3 Evaluating the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Network Strategic Plan
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Mission A network of cooperatives depends on LCCs to: EVALUATING THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES • evelop and provide integrated science-based information D about the implications of climate change and other stress Meaningful evaluation requires clearly articulated and ors for the sustainability of natural and cultural resources; measurable objectives that reflect the mission of the program being evaluated, and that are sensitive to the context for • evelop shared, landscape-level, conservation objec D tives and inform conservation strategies that are based which the program was initiated. Three kinds of objectives on a shared scientific understanding about the landscape, are relevant to evaluation: ends, means, and process objec including the implications of current and future environtives (Keeney, 1992; see Box 3.1)
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The objectives to guide program evaluation requires elabora- strategic plan uses "objective" to mean specific actions or tion of the aspects of each of the high-level objectives into targets needed to accomplish a goal; this usage is close to sub-objectives. The LCC language offers some clues for the means objectives of value-focused thinking.
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TABLE 3.1 Brief Description of LCC Network Objectives for the First Strategic Goal, "Conservation Strategy" LCC Network Goal- Objective # LCC Network Objective Description 1-1 Identify shared conservation objectives, challenges, and opportunities to inform landscape conservation at continental, LCC, island, and regional scales. 1-2 Develop then deliver (through partners)
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In contrast, Objective 6 has no example actic. t of large-landscape conservation, and achieving this process It is related to the first two objectives under Goal 1, but TABLE 3.2 Brief Description of LCC Network Objectives for the Second Goal, "Collaborative Conservation" LCC Network Goal- Objective # LCC Network Objective Description 2-1 Create a high-functioning organizational culture for LCCs and the LCC Network.
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objective includes both means and ends components because TABLE 3.3 Brief Description of the LCC Network Objectives for the Third Goal, "Science" LCC Network Goal- Objective # LCC Network Objective Description 3-1 Identify shared science, information, and resource needs at the network scale. 3-2 Promote collaborative production of science and research -- including human dimensions -- as well as the use of experience and indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge among LCCs, Climate Science Centers, and other interested parties; use these to inform resource management decisions, educate local communities, and address shared needs.
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land-use classification system, is an appropriate metric for formative evaluation. TIMING OF EVALUATIONS IN THE Additional perspective on appropriate evaluation metrics PROGRAM LIFE CYCLE for the LCC Network and for individual LCCs comes from the literature on the life cycle of governance structures for The evaluation literature distinguishes between summa collaborative networks (Imperial et al., in press)
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In contrast, value-focused thinking urges evaluation of programs with respect to their effects on ends, rather than with respect to their employment of particular means. Linking Individual LCCs' Goals with the However, value-focused thinking does recognize that means Network's Goals could appropriately be the focus of program evaluation, The strategic plan includes several goals and objectives either as a proxy measure, where it is too difficult to directly that aim to facilitate coordination and collaboration across measure accomplishment of ends, or as an interim measure, the individual LCCs and create a "high-functioning orgawhere it is too soon to expect to see any effect on ends, even nizational culture for LCCs and the Network" (see above, for a successful program.
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arises from an apparent lack in a Summative evaluation, concentrating on the effects that LCC process that clearly links the individual LCCs' strategic goals activities have had on ends, will become more appropriate and missions to the LCC Network's strategic plan. as the LCC program matures.
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