Stakeholder Engagement: Meeting Human and Environmental Needs
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Presented by Pg Mas Dino Pg Radin Hanafi (Brunei) and Matthew Cosby (United States) during the YSEALI Generation Earth Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The session leaders will help participants understand that at the interface of human communities and natural resources, we must teach and engage each other in how to live with, support, and be supported by the natural communities and resources that support us. They will use case studies in watershed awareness and health and disaster risk reduction planning in Japan, and will implement a simulation to demonstrate the role of governments, communities, the private sector, academia and NGOs.
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Stakeholder Engagement: Meeting Human and Environmental Needs
- 1. Stakeholder Engagement: Key to Effective Natural Resource Management
- 3. Introduction 3 • Content and Background – What are Natural Resources? – What is Natural Resource Management? – What is Stakeholder Engagement? – Why is Engagement Key? • Case Study – Watershed Awareness and Health • Case Study – Disaster Risk Reduction Planning in Japan • Workshop using what you’ve learned
- 4. Natural Resources 4 • Air, Water, Plants and Animals, Atmosphere, etc. • Specialized and fragile • Not all NR are created equal
- 5. Natural Resource Management 5 • Need to understand the full value of a NR • Need to understand the public and the stakeholders relationship with the NR, and their other priorities • Protection mechanisms • Centralized vs Decentralized Protection Mechanisms
- 6. Stakeholder’s 6 • “Movers and the Shakers” • Landowners • Influential Groups • Private Industry • Public • Youth • Religious leaders • Academics • Anyone with interest – YOU DON’T GET TO CHOOSE!
- 7. Why is Stakeholder Engagement Key? 7 • Management decisions affect the stakeholders • In the absence we appear to be elitists • We must maintain public trust and retain relationships • It leads to the best projects • They carry your message and can shift the paradigms of the citizens
- 8. Best Management Practices 8 • Start with listening sessions (early and often) • Do research on your Stakeholders (Social Media, Crowdsource • Move to small group meetings (listening and learning) • Focus on influential leaders (Boundary Spanning Organization) • Educate on a basic level (ignorance is not incompetence) • Develop an action group/task force – Charter, START THE DO!
- 9. Case Study #1 9 Outreach and engagement for increasing watershed awareness and health
- 10. Case Study #1 10 • Natural Resource: Watershed all Biota and Water Quality • Stakeholders: Open Space Council (NGO), USEPA (FED), NFWF (NGO), Local Artists, and Stream Teams • Pulled everyone together and applied for a $25,000 grant – Funded a Large Cleanup – 2,225 Citizen Volunteers Cleaned up 500 Miles (805 km) – Consolidation and Analysis of Stream Team Data Meramec Basin – Outreach Component - Billboard
- 11. Billboard along Major Interstate 11
- 13. Given the options of NOT being involved in the fix of a problem, and HAVING the natural resource problem, most would choose to HAVE the problem 13
- 14. • Scenario-based risk communication supporting multi- stakeholder engagement in disaster risk reduction (DRR) planning in Japan • Community-based earthquake early warning system • Trans-disciplinary approaches, governance of science and indigenous knowledge • Disaster Risk Scenario Platform (DRSP) Case Study #2
- 15. • Assisted by the Disaster Risk Information Platform (DRIP) Traditional/hierarchical methods Multi-stakeholder approach
- 16. Scheme of a typical workshop design and processes
- 17. Expert, experiential, and local • Sense of involvement in decision-making process • More effective disaster risk management • Crowdsourcing data
- 18. 18 Mas Dino Radin Environmental Studies Undergraduate at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (673) 8862037 10b8122@ubd.edu.bn Matt Cosby Project Manager and Urban Waters Ambassador (011) 314-331-8129 Matthew.g.cosby@usace.army.mil Contact Information
- 19. Workshop Activity Stakeholders: • Government (G) • Community (C) • Private Sector (PS) • Academics (A) • NGOs 24 participants = 4 groups of 6 1 stakeholder role will have 2 representatives = the Pair
- 20. The policy has a total of 15 mandates; • 10 of which have been pre-selected with scores ranging from -3 to +3 depending on the stakeholder • and 10 to be decided by the stakeholders themselves 2 mandates per stakeholder and +1 point for each Gain points as a stakeholder and as a group!
- 21. Policy: Insuring farmlands against natural disasters risks Background information (extracted from United Nations University article, Green Investment in Asian Cities to Reduce Natural Disaster Risks): "In order to avoid risks and damage, and to strengthen resilience to natural disasters, national and local governments need to be prepared. At the local level, authorities must take action to construct policy packages that include locally based risk prevention facilities as well as risk finance and risk transfer systems. In addition to governments and private enterprises that offer financial support and the provision of necessary goods and services to cover losses post-disaster, risk financing and risk transfer tools such as insurance, reinsurance, and catastrophe-linked securities are key. Such tools help to reduce the negative economic impacts of extreme risks."
- 22. Mandates for Solutions to Disaster Risk Reduction 1. Disaster Risk Financing (i.e. insurance fund program) via Public- Private Partnerships. • Government -2 • Community +3 • Private Sector -3 • Academics +1 • NGOs +2
- 23. 2. Government sets out a financial mechanism for recovery and rehabilitation post disaster. • Government -3 • Community -1 • Private Sector +1 • Academics +2 • NGOs +3 3. NGOs to set up a social network to allow citizens to share disaster- related information such as clogged pipes to allow more efficient government response. • Government -2 • Community +3 • Private Sector -1 • Academics +2 • NGOs +3
- 24. 4. Government to develop planning and zoning framework to limit farming opportunities near vulnerable areas • Government +1 • Community -3 • Private Sector -2 • Academics -1 • NGOs -3 5. NGO to act as boundary spanning organization between Government and Researchers to facilitate applied research for the reduction disaster impacts • Government +1 • Community -1 • Private Sector -3 • Academics +3 • NGOs +2
Editor's Notes
- Generally speaking, natural resources are usually one of the priorities on the radar of a community. Obviously, where that ranks in the priority list varies from region to region depending on the issues within the community. Generally too, some type of organization is interested in the conservation and/or management of the resources; often it is a governmental body or environmental interest group. There are great strides to be made around the world toward productive natural resource and water management at the interface of a community.
- Human communities have to recognize that the communities of plants and animals that we interface with are unique and evolved. Part of education is teaching that not all organisms are equal. Many, if taken from their natural community have the biological productivity of a concrete statue. Education is the essential component in community engagement when dealing with natural resource and water management.
- We must also remember that the human community wants to be a part of the solution. Given the options of NOT being involved in the fix of a problem, and HAVING the natural problem, most would choose to HAVE the problem. What is probably the most tragic is that we, by leaving them out of the development of the solution, make this decision for them. At the interface of human communities and naturalized communities, we must teach and engage each other in how to live with, support, and be supported by the natural communities.
- We must also remember that the human community wants to be a part of the solution. Given the options of NOT being involved in the fix of a problem, and HAVING the natural problem, most would choose to HAVE the problem. What is probably the most tragic is that we, by leaving them out of the development of the solution, make this decision for them. At the interface of human communities and naturalized communities, we must teach and engage each other in how to live with, support, and be supported by the natural communities.
- The larger organizations wanted an increase in awareness of the watersheds and the health of the watershed (we id’ed the NR as the watershed including all things that our stakeholders were interested in – open ended) We held small meetings in coffee shops, one in each region of the watershed. Found our stakeholders… In 2014, 2,225 citizen volunteers weathered 100+ degree days to clean up nearly 500 miles of waterway in the Meramec River basin. Volunteers pulled 2,481 tires and 250 cubic yards of trash, the equivalent of 6 large construction dumpsters, from the river.
- The larger organizations wanted an increase in awareness of the watersheds and the health of the watershed (we id’ed the NR as the watershed including all things that our stakeholders were interested in – open ended) We held small meetings in coffee shops, one in each region of the watershed. Found our stakeholders… In 2014, 2,225 citizen volunteers weathered 100+ degree days to clean up nearly 500 miles of waterway in the Meramec River basin. Volunteers pulled 2,481 tires and 250 cubic yards of trash, the equivalent of 6 large construction dumpsters, from the river.
- Case study from Humanitarian Futures, an independent policy research program based at King’s College, London: http://www.humanitarianfutures.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CS4-SRBC.pdf Initiated by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) from Japan DRSP provides a framework to improve DRR planning through collaborative efforts amongst stakeholders such as self-governing resident associations, local authorities, NPOs and private businesses.
- Unless otherwise stated, all images from Case Study #2 is from NIED (n.d.), Scenario-based risk communication. Retrieved 8th April 2015 from Humanitarian Futures. http://www.humanitarianfutures.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CS4-SRBC.pdf DRIP collects and disseminates expert risk information through a series of multilayered networks that includes various disaster prevention agencies such as fire and water brigades, research institutions as well as local and experiential information from residents and civic organizations. Scenarios are then developed under DRSP to identify potential disaster risks as well as how they are perceived by stakeholders. This approach enables participants to identify the various stakeholders involved and how they play an important role in DRR that goes beyond government institutions and residents themselves.
- Workshops are then conducted in vulnerable communities across Japan that seek to engage stakeholders by strengthening their capacity and building a network that makes full use of local resources associated with “local coping capacity”. The role-playing aspect of the workshop allows participants to understand their respective capacity and roles in DRR planning.
- This case study has demonstrated that by including stakeholders in the decision making process especially those most vulnerable to disasters increases the effectiveness of DRR planning- it also allows for a range of concerns to emerge, some that may not have been otherwise acknowledged or addressed. Furthermore, this approach offers the opportunity to collect/crowdsource data especially at the local level that can further contribute to creating better response systems and aid in relief and recovery efforts.