User Needs Assessment/ Performance Indicators

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User Needs Assessment/ Performance
Indicators

• combined break-out group

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IABIN Users

• Large universe of potential IABIN clients
• IABIN needs a typology to cluster groups of users
  and applications
• Are the intended users the most important users?
  How do you know?

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Performance Indicators

• IABIN has a challenge in establishing a causal
  relationship between donor investments and
  conservation results
• Project performance indicators are not the same
  as biodiversity status indicators
• IABINs project performance indicators do not
  tell anything about IABINs impact

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Pragmatics Performance Considerations

• Do IABIN inputs leverage other projects (e.g.,
  the GEF projects involving protected areas?)
• How can IABIN data holdings be packaged into
  products relevant to the intended users?
• expert databases and human networks
• Can IABIN aggregate across a portfolio of
  biodiversity projects using status indicators?

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Target Users according to PAD

• operational users, e.g., national park managers
• subnational users - municipal or provincial
  authorities
• national authorities
• regional or global programs

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Examples of IABIN data in operations

• management effectiveness tracking tools
• basic biodiversity indicators

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Examples of IABIN data at subnational level

• IABIN ETN has developed a risk assessment tool
  for Lake Nicaragua and associated watersheds and
  produced risk assessment maps
• IABIN ETN has produced a maximum entropy
  forecasting system for certain invasive species
  in Belize

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Examples of IABIN data at national level

• NORAD, World Bank funded IABIN ETN to produce
  Dengue Forecasting system for Nicaragua
• Potential national products include overlays
• Biodiversity and poverty maps
• Pollinator distributions and protected areas
• Protected areas and hydropower

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IABIN data at regional and global levels

• A potential data product is the production of an
  annual state of the environment report for
  Central America based upon the CCAD biodiversity
  indicators

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Recommendations

• IABIN needs to test assumptions in PAD of the
  four classes of users
• IABIN must track and evaluate its data user
• through on-line user registration, surveys
• also track back through the TNs - consult with
  TNs on how they track users

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Recommendations (cont.)

• IABIN should engage strategic partners as data
  brokers - e.g. GEF implementing agencies UNEP,
  UNDP, and the World Bank

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Recommendations (cont.)

• IABIN should produce strong case study materials
  (case studies, powerpoints) and/or develop new
  products to demonstrate IABIN applicability
  across the four user groups
• Input to Mission statement IABIN should position
  itself to become the premier vehicle for
  evidence-based conservation in the Americas