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Webinar Transcript: Conservation Enterprises: Exploring Their Effectiveness
Presenters: Megan Hill, Natalie Dubois, Shawn Peabody explore the effectiveness of Conservation Enterprises during this June 21,2016 webinar.
Information relevant to Learning Questions:
Are enabling conditions in place to support a sustainable enterprise?
- Stakeholder alignment, diversification
- Market demand, access to credit/capital
- Ownership, governance
- Government requirements, policies for enterprises, business alliances
- Financial management capacity, technical capacity
- Inputs, equipment, infrastructure
- Benefit sharing, combined strategic approaches, biodiversity linkage, policies for and enforcement of resource use, external disturbance
Does the enterprise lead to benefits to stakeholders?
- Increased income for participants
- Non-cash benefits
Do the benefits lead to positive changes in attitudes and behavior?
- Attitudes regarding sustainable use of resources
- Behaviors regarding sustainable use of resources
Does a change in stakeholders’ behaviors lead to a reduction to threats to biodiversity (or restoration)?
- Addressed generally
Does a reduction in threats (or restoration) lead to conservation?
- Addressed generally
