Strategies for Supporting Front-Line Collaboration

Strategies for Supporting Front Line Collaboration: Lessons from Stewardship Contracting Cassandra Moseley Director, Institute for a Sustainable Environment University of Oregon August 2010

Overview
Collaborating in Federal Land Management
What is Stewardship Contracting?
Case Studies
Four Strategies for Supporting Collaboration on the Front Line
Resources
“ An agency’s culture, policies, procedures, and incentives can make it either easier or more difficult for field staff to collaborate effectively.”

Collaborating in Federal Land Management
Executives in two federal land management agencies in 1990s saw potential in engaging community-level stakeholders to solve complex problems.
U.S. Forest Service
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
The challenge: demands of vertical hierarchies clash with fluid, horizontal networks

What Is Stewardship Contracting?
Statutory contracting authority allowing Forest Service and BLM to restore public lands, create economic benefits for local communities
Allows timber sale revenues to remain local, used for land restoration efforts
Use is predicated on active local engagement in decision-making by affected communities
Required changes in behavior by agencies, communities, activists

Case Studies in Collaboration
Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon
Sisters’ Ranger District, Oregon
Hayfork Valley National Forest, Calif.
Weaverville Community Forest, Calif.
Wyoming Front Aspen Restoration, Wyoming

Four Strategies Supporting Front Line Collaboration
Create time and space for collaboration to develop and mature
Change the rules to encourage collaboration
Expand local discretion
Prioritize funding for action
Provide staff incentives to collaborate
Formal guidance
Personal performance measures
Build agency, non-government partner capacities to collaborate
Train cadre of personnel
Joint training

Resources
“ Strategies for Supporting Front Line Collaboration: Lessons from Stewardship Contracting”
For free copies of this report, visit the IBM Center for The Business of Government Website www.businessofgovernment.org
Report Author:
Cassandra Moseley
Director, Ecosystem Workforce Program
Director, Institute for a Sustainable Environment
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
(541) 346-4545
[email_address]
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Strategies for Supporting Front-Line Collaboration

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