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4 An Examination of the Evaluation Process for the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
4 An Examination of the Evaluation Process for the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
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Fish and Wildlife Service's In general, and for the LCCs in particular, the chal(FWS's) approach to evaluating the Landscape Conservation lenges of establishing shared metrics and outcomes in a Cooperatives (LCCs)
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. It is important to note that this type of program ing causal links between collaborative conservation planning performance evaluation can be effective in evaluating and and actions and the ultimate outcome is very difficult if improving conservation programs even without establishing not nearly impossible (such challenges are also described a causal link between conservation actions of a program and in Appendix A)
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Both the foundation for the SIAS is the SHC handbook and several of n etwork-level strategic plan and the individual LCC plans tend the SIAS Conservation Activity Areas are directly identifi- to be written for internal, within-network audiences. It appears able in the SHC handbook (National Technical Assistance that they were not developed for the purpose of, and are not Team, 2008)
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for Fiscal Year 2014 North Atlantic North Atlantic LCC SIAS 2.0 (FY 2014) LCC Conservation Activity Areas and Metric Bench- Metric Metrics Justification (limited to <4,000 characters)
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The Connecticut River Landscape Conservation Design Pilot required >100% of total FWS annual significant in-kind participation by 30 FWS and investments leveraged by non-FWS partners. The North Atlantic LCC 4 successfully competed for > $5 million in DOI partner contributions (cash and/ or in kind)
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The LCC The LCC Steering Committee LCC staff provide a state of the LCC presentation develops a comprehensive has not started a process for annually at each April Steering Committee meeting strategic action plan, updated on evaluating progress at regular and the Steering Committee reviews and provides a regular defined time period, intervals toward established input on shifting of priorities. In 2013–2014 the that describes their science goals and updating the 0 Steering Committee recommended a shifting agenda, approach, monitoring, identification and prioritization of resources toward science delivery that was and communications strategy of the most important science reflected in a new team, strategy, and grant program and progress in collaboratively and capacity needs to support for science delivery.
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For this short-term metrics listed below are process oriented, and are reason, the SIAS framework can meet objectives of the FWS intended to refine FWS-relevant benchmarks associated with independently from an evaluation framework that assesses the SIAS, as well as to strengthen and clarify alignment of the LCC Network and individual LCCs as long as some con- the SIAS with the strategic plan. sistency is maintained at the network level.
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Many of the 22 benchmarks can be paired to term metrics for individual LCCs, which could then be single or multiple goals and objectives, but it is certainly not aggregated at the network level, would assess the following: a set of metrics designed to align with the strategic plan -- in part, because the SIAS uses the SHC framework for metrics • Extent to which both agency-unique contributions and while the strategic plan is not based on the SHC framework their costs can be clearly identified and tied -- ualitatively, q directly; and also in part because this version of the SIAS was quantitatively, or both -- to program output and longer-term s completed before strategic plan development. This sequence outcomes.
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. Because the individual LCCs set their five key dimensions contributing to an overall construct of own goals and priorities through a collaborative process collaboration.
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and the for individual LCCs that can assess the effectiveness of the N ational Landscape Conservation Cooperative Network. In LCC Network as a whole.
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evaluation process to better capture the contributions made by all partner agencies or groups toward common objecMeasuring Partner Contributions and Benefits: Although tives. In particular, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the the SIAS tracks how partners contribute to the FWS-specific individual LCCs and the LCC Network, the evaluation progoals of the individual LCCs, currently the evaluation cess should measure how resources invested in any portion process does not yet account for how these contributions of the LCC Network further the goals of the LCC Network further the goals of the network in general or the goals of and its partners.
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