This social biosecurity project, aims to improve plant biosecurity management by developing the capacity of regional and remote communities to engage in biosecurity surveillance activities.

1. biosecurity built on science
Building collaboration to enable
social innovation in biosecurity
systems
Dr Cathy Robinson
Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre

2. biosecurity built on science
Why?
- Detecting, diagnosing and responding to biosecurity threats require that
community, government, and industry have a shared knowledge base,
motivation and commitment to their biosecurity responsibilities
- Innovative partnerships between industry, government and community
exists but can be challenging
Social innovation for better biosecurity
Effective biosecurity surveillance relies on social innovation as well as technical
innovation

3. biosecurity built on science
Social innovation for better biosecurity
Maclean et al, In review. Building
social resilience around biological
invasions, Biological Invasions

4. biosecurity built on science
Social innovation relies on knowledge that is trusted
Different stakeholder groups trust
and use different kinds of
information and information sources
to assess biosecurity risk
Stakeholder
Engagement
Robinson CJ, Maclean K, Hill R, Bock E, Rist P. 2016. Participatory mapping to
negotiate Indigenous knowledge used to assess environmental risk. Sustainability
Science.
Farbotko, C.J., K. Maclean and C.J. Robinson. 2016. Performing a plant biosecurity
emergency: The generation of disease absence and presence in Northern Australia
banana plantations. Environment and Planning A, 48, 4,771-788.

5. biosecurity built on science
Stakeholder engagement for building collaboration
Stakeholder engagement
• drives collaborative partnerships
• key mechanism for assessing and managing biosecurity risks
• needs to occur across all decision-making levels
• needs to be tailored to suit different stages of biosecurity operations
• requires time to build relationships, mutual learning and trust

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Strategic stakeholder engagement - critical to guide change in
complex situations
AND
Program logic Local realities

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Stakeholder engagement for collaboration toolkit
Stage 1
Stage 2
Evaluate the
performance of
stakeholder
engagement
strategies
Identify key
stakeholders
Develop desired
objectives for
stakeholder
engagement
Build consensus on
which engagement
strategies will give
the best return on
investment
Create a suite of
stakeholder
engagement
strategies
Who to engage? – Identify key
stakeholders
Why engage? – Develop desired objectives
for stakeholder engagement
How to engage? – Create a suite of
appropriate stakeholder engagement
strategies
Success? – Evaluate the performance of
each stakeholder engagement strategy
Bang for buck? – Build consensus on which
engagement strategies will give the best
return on investment

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Stakeholder engagement toolkit - applications
http://www.pbcrc.com.au/research/project/4004
• Which stakeholder engagement activities will enable biosecurity
knowledge and responsibility to be shared ?
• Which stakeholder is engaged, disengaged or un-engaged in a biosecurity
issue (and why?)
• How can we create or refine partnerships to allow community, industry
and government to work together better across multiple decision-making
scales?

9. biosecurity built on science
Stakeholder engagement toolkit applications
The how, what and why aspects of NAQs efforts to improve reporting and response to biosecurity risks
How
Expand surveillance capacity
of Ranger groups
Enhance career
opportunities via fixed term
employment and training
Better align fee-for-service
payments
Establish an Indigenous
Ranger biosecurity network
Why (Impact)
NAQS rangers can make
informed surveillance
decisions
Wider Indigenous
community supports NAQs
efforts and activities
Visitors / non-Indigenous
partners collaborate with
NAQS efforts and activities
Pathways for Impact (What)
Building awareness measures
Integrated surveillance system
measures
Training and employment
pathway measures
Networks for information
sharing measures
Promoting health and well-being
for those involved in NAQS
surveillance work measures
Measures of biosecurity risk response effectiveness that could be used by NAQS Indigenous ranger program

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Stakeholder engagement applications
http://www.pbcrc.com.au/research/project/4004
The how, what and why aspects of
community gardener engagement
with biosecurity in north-eastern
Queensland
Curnock, M, Robinson, C, Fabatko, C. 2017. Factors that
influence why community gardeners are engaged,
disengaged and unengaged in biosecurity in Northern
Queensland, Geographic Research

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Stakeholder engagement applications
The how, what and why aspects of stakeholder
engagement during an emergency outbreak in the
NT & Qld
•Farbotko, C.J., K. Maclean and C.J. Robinson. 2016. Performing a plant biosecurity emergency: The generation of disease absence and presence in Northern Australia banana plantations. Environment and Planning A, 48, 4,771-788.
McAllister, RRJ, CJ Robinson, A.Brown, K. Maclean, S. Perry, S. Liu. 2017. Balancing collaboration with coordination: contesting eradication in the Australian plant pest and disease
biosecurity program, International Journal of the Commons, 11(1) [online]

12. biosecurity built on science
Building collaboration to enable social innovation in biosecurity
Across
programs
Across
industries and
regions
Across
responses and
scales

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Thank you
Dr Cathy Robinson
e: Catherine.Robinson@csiro.au
M: 0437 170 024
http://www.pbcrc.com.au/research/project/4004
http://www.pbcrc.com.au/news/2016/pbcrc/workin
g-together-plant-biosecurity