EFFECTING THE NABCI

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EFFECTING THE NABCI VISION EXPECTATIONS OF
JOINT VENTURES
Scott C. Yaich Director of Conservation
Programs Ducks Unlimited, Memphis, TN
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Joint Ventures An Introspective Look
I always wanted to be somebody,
but I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

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Objectives
To meet the external expectations of the JVs,
stimulate consideration of

• What should JVs be?
• - 2 basic models

• What should Board members
• consider in charting the future
• of the LMVJV and other JVs?

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Objectives
To stimulate consideration of

• What should JV Board
• members be?
• - Board member characteristics
• - How can JV Board members
• advance the JV vision in their
• day-to-day, non-JV world?

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Effecting the NABCI Vision
Populations and habitats of North Americas
birds protected, restored or enhanced through
coordinated efforts at international, national,
regional, state and local levels, guided by sound
science and effective management.
Expectations of Joint Ventures?
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FWS Directors Order No. 146 Joint Venture
Administration

• Constitution for JVs

• Defines JVs

• Provides guidance re roles

and functions of JVs

• Fosters expectations of JVs

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Joint Venture Definition
A self-directed partnership of
agencies, organizations, corporations, tribes, or
individuals that has formally accepted
the responsibility of implementing national
or international bird conservation plans within
a specific geographic area or for a specific
taxonomic group, and has received general
acceptance in the bird conservation community for
such responsibility.
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Context for Joint Venture
Functions
Continental and National Initiatives
Regionally-based Joint Ventures
Local Projects
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What do the Initiatives provide?

• Continental population goals and priorities
• Range-wide assessment of limiting factors
• Range-wide monitoring and evaluation
• Biological expertise organized into
• national and regional workgroups

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What do the JVs Provide?

• Coordination
• Planning and design
• Project development and
• implementation
• Communications and Outreach
• Monitoring, evaluation and applied
• research

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External expectations of Joint Ventures
Long-term...
All elements fully developed and functioning to
provide a logical and coordinated approach to the
conservation of all birds.
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External expectations of Joint Ventures
Short-term....
A commitment to build the capacity to conduct
regional-scale landscape design that integrates
priorities and objectives of all bird
initiatives into JV implementation plans.
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LMVJV Business Model

• Vehicle for monitoring and
• managing CHANGE

Current state
Managed Evolution
Vision
Unmanaged Evolution
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Two Fundamental Business Models

• Conservation Delivery

• Conservation Enterprise

HOWEVER, these models exist as points
along a continuum of JV
evolution and function
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Conservation Enterprise
Conservation Delivery
Central Activity
Delivery of habi- tat conservation
Planning, delivery, evaluation, monitoring
and research
Composition

• Administrators,
• managers,
• scientists
• Internal and
• external networks

• Administrators,
• managers
• Internal
• networks

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Conservation Enterprise
Conservation Delivery
Structure

• Administrative
• oversight
• Technical
• groups

• Administrative
• oversight
• Technical
• groups

• To advance 3
• spheres of bird
• conservation

• Programmatic
• To advance 1
• sphere of bird
• conservation

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Conservation Enterprise
Conservation Delivery
Function

• ID, design, and
• develop funding
• for habitat
• projects

• Landscape
• design needed
• to fulfill birds
• biological needs

• Context for JV
• and partner
• activities

• More opportun-
• istic less context

• JV benefits
• Additive

• JV benefits
• Multiplicative

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Conservation Delivery
Conservation Enterprise
JV

• Coordination

JV
Initiatives (JV)

• Planning and
• design

JV and Initiatives

• Project devel-
• opment and imp-
• lementation

JV
JV
JV

• Communications

JV

• Monitoring,
• evaluation and
• applied research

Initiatives (JV)
JV and Initiatives
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Conservation Delivery
Conservation Enterprise

• Planning, design,
• monitoring,
• evaluation and
• applied research

Initiatives (JV)
JV and Initiatives

• Project devel-
• opment and imp-
• lementation

JV
JV
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Conservation Delivery
Conservation Enterprise

• Planning, design,
• monitoring,
• evaluation and
• applied research

Initiatives (JV)
JV and Initiatives
Existing broad, national, more
regional Expertise continental
depth
Regional general, with
local Knowledge national context
familiarity
Future outside JV
within JV Capacity
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Conservation Delivery
Conservation Enterprise

• Planning, design,
• monitoring,
• evaluation and
• applied research

Initiatives (JV)
JV and Initiatives
Coordination from
from and Direction outside JV
within JV
Relevance of greatest to
greatest to Product Initiatives
JVs
Level of additive
multiplicative Benefits
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Conservation Delivery
Conservation Enterprise

• Planning, design,
• monitoring,
• evaluation and
• applied research

Initiatives (JV)
JV and Initiatives
Responsibility Ultimately,
YES and Accountability NO
Leadership Contextual
Results-
oriented
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Management Board Representation

• Administrator with responsibility
• for all bird conservation programs

• Someone with direct access to and
• credibility with same
• - should be coupled with informed,
• committed Administrator

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How Can JV Members Advance The JV Vision in Their
Day Jobs?

• Apply the principles of the Conservation
• Enterprise model to all activities affecting
• bird conservation

• Remember to use the products developed
• by the JV to address your broader needs

• Use the expertise and personnel resources
• available through the JV partnership

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External expectations of
Joint Ventures
1. Build the biological foundation for
regionally-based bird conservation.
2. Translate population goals of the
Initiatives into regional population goals
and then into explicit landscape designs and
habitat objectives.
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External expectations of
Joint Ventures

• Coordinate regional monitoring and
• research to evaluate assumptions in
• the biological foundation and assess
• progress toward population goals.

• Collaborate on addressing continental
• scale information needs.

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External expectations of
Joint Ventures

• Coordinate and deliver conservation
• from a common strategy.

• Speak with a common voice and reach
• out to potential partners that use
• habitat conservation to attain their
• own unique goals.

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Thanks for the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint
Ventures Leadership! KEEP IT UP!