Chesapeake Bay Program Goal Implementation Team (GIT) Funding Program - Scope #6 - Training and Technical Assistance on Network Science

Overview

Chesapeake Bay Program Goal Implementation Team (GIT) Funding Program

The Chesapeake Bay Trust has been designated to receive federal funds from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Chesapeake Bay Program Goal Implementation Team Funding Program. The work funded by this initiative advances outcomes identified in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. Each year, certain outcomes are chosen by the Chesapeake Bay Program as top priorities to address, and these stretch across all Goal Implementation Teams (GIT) and workgroups.

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement contains five themes consisting of 10 goals that will advance the restoration and protection of the Bay watershed. These goals are interrelated: improvements in water quality can mean healthier fish and shellfish; the conservation of land can mean more habitat for wildlife; and a boost in environmental literacy can mean a rise in stewards of the Bay’s resources. Our environment is a system, and these goals will support the health of the public and of the watershed as a whole. Each goal is linked to a set of outcomes, or time-bound and measurable targets that will directly contribute to its achievement. Each outcome has a Management Strategy and Logic & Action Plan which offer insight into how the partnership will achieve each outcome, as well as how we will monitor, assess, and report progress toward abundant life, clean water, engaged communities, conserved lands, and climate change resilience.

Strategic Engagement Team (SET) – Scope # 6

The goal of the SET is to provide strategic planning and expert advice to the Bay Program Communications Office with focus on people-oriented actions, such as local engagement, communications, social science, stewardship, diversity, and education. To learn more about the SET visit their website at https://www.chesapeakebay.net/who/group/strategic-engagement-team.

Scope #6 - Training and Technical Assistance on Network Science

Purpose and Outcome of Scope #6: This Scope will provide training and technical assistance on network science to build the necessary collaborative infrastructure to advance shared goals and enhance the existing capacity of the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership (the partnership) to accelerate achievement of Watershed Agreement goals and outcomes. The trainings and technical assistance included in this Scope #6 will increase the partnership impact and collaborative capacity through the adoption of network science principles that will enable the partnership to intentionally design, cultivate, and sustain relationships and connections among the CBP partners and stakeholders who have shared goals. One of the overarching goals of this project will be to ensure that the partnership’s enhanced collaborative infrastructure created through this Scope #6 will allow the Goal Implementation Teams to successfully be able to adapt and strategically fulfill the challenges of the future of the partnership. The adoption of network science best practices will improve the partnership’s ability to coordinate work around different organizations, enable the CBP partnership to be more resilient to changes in goals, outcomes, and structure, respond to urgent needs and opportunities, and integrate diverse perspectives into the organization.

Key Tasks of Scope #6:

* Pre-Phase: Analysis and conversations with project steering committee, to be determined in collaboration with GIT Leads, and GITs to gather information on current issues and challenges to inform Phase 1: Training.
* Phase 1: Training. This phase centers around providing education and training for the partnership of healthy collaborative network characteristics and keys to functioning as a network.
* Phase 2: Technical Assistance and Evaluation. This phase includes identifying a process and criteria to select and then deliver organizational/network potential evaluation alongside technical assistance on removing barriers to increasing effective collaboration and key topics related to network science for 3-5 goal team/workgroups.

Eligibility

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