Transcript Best Management Practices to Engage and Have A Successful

Best Management Practices to
Engage and Have A Successful
Partnership With Watershed
Stakeholders
Using on-line Wikispaces environment as
a means to document ideas, encourage
deliberative process, and disseminate
information
Watershed groups could use Wikis
to document grant funding process and funding status,
windshield surveys, watershed activities, and areas where
BMPs have been implemented or could potentially be initiated.
Advantages of Wiki:
Easy to use, navigate, add content such as text, maps, pictures, etc
Presently no cost for basic version
Participants can add comments to discussion board
More efficient dissemination of questions, ideas, and information than
through e-mail or telephone calls
Disadvantages of Wiki:
Users have to “buy-in” to on-line collaborative environment
Focus, goals, and objectives of watershed group might become derailed if use of vision statements, logic models, and other planning tools
are not followed or emphasized
Watershed Experiences Wiki
Document the actions of stakeholders to potentially
replicate for other properties and stakeholders
Wiki focused on actions that minimized negative
impacts to watershed health.
Focus on potential actions for stakeholders and
related properties
Promote engagement of stakeholders that have not
necessarily been approached by watershed groups
or similar entities
Subtle question that is poised to Wiki viewers: Can a
market or social environment be created wherein
stakeholders are compelled to complete BMPs
voluntarily, above and beyond what is required by
Code?
Watershed Leadership Academy Assignments
Were Used As A Template to Success
R1 Best and Worst Outcomes = Vision Statement
R2 Stakeholder Involvement =What does the
stakeholder have to gain from participating in
watershed protection efforts?
R3 On-line Resources for Developing a Watershed
Inventory
R4 Watershed Inventory and Analysis
R5 Understanding the Planning Process
R6 Setting Goals to Achieve Impact = Logic Model
What are the most common perceptions or
concepts of a community held amongst
stakeholders ?
How do most people within the community define and
interact with their community :
as a geographical defined taxing entity?
location where residents maintain a residence (or
work) but commute to a different community to work
(or return home)?
and/or community where residents live and actively
participate in decision processes as well as activities
within their community?
Many commercial business stakeholders
deriving their income from the general
public wish to be viewed as part of the
fabric of the community
Commercial business stakeholders may
use words and concepts such as trust,
high quality, and reputable for marketing
and promotional efforts
Is it beneficial to most stakeholders to
consider the watershed as an integral
part of the community?
Motivations of the Stakeholder
Most commercial businesses want to establish
and maintain trust among their customers, to
meet and be responsive to their expectations
Hypothesis to prove or disprove: Customers
that value and appreciate watershed
protection efforts will be more likely to
patronize stakeholders that have
implemented watershed BMPs on their own
properties when appropriate
Best answered with a social survey of the
customers and/or stakeholders, useful to
gauge extent of their environmental
knowledge and attitudes toward watershed
Surface Water Analytical Services
Provided by local WWTP’s Wiki
Contacted Indiana Water Environment Association or
IWEA.
IWEA is a professional trade organization comprised
primarily of individuals working in WWTP related services.
Asked laboratory committee whether watershed groups
have utilized analytical services of WWTP labs.
Received six e-mails (from 42 potential members)
indicating they have personally assisted with samples
submitted by watershed groups. Significant cost and
information benefit to watershed group from collaboration.
Morale of story?: It doesn’t hurt to ask for assistance from
stakeholders, some stakeholders may provide services
that are unique and somewhat difficult to obtain.