Integrating Equity

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• What key products will emerge from this process?
  • A shared understanding of equity and equitable conservation and their relevance to the various stages of strategy development.
  • A baseline assessment of where the team and strategy are with equity, and opportunities to strengthen equity.
  • An awareness of equity-related resources and tools available to support the strategy development process.
• Use this module to answer the following questions:

  • What do we mean by equity and equitable conservation? 

  • How do we integrate equity in the conservation planning process? 

  • What do we need to consider if we’re going to strengthen equity throughout our strategy?

  • How can we build equity into our strategy from the start? 

  • What are the methods and tools to help our team develop, or adaptively manage for, a more equitable strategy?

• Who participates?

  The primary participants are the core planning team. Teams will also need a facilitator—ideally, someone from outside the planning team—who has completed training on this module.

• How much time will it take?

  The module consists of two workshop sessions, a total of 4.5 hours.

• What should we have completed before we start?

  There are no specific requirements for the Integrating Equity module—all that is required is readiness by all participants to engage actively and learn. Teams should have a general sense of the conservation issues they want to tackle and plan for.

• What are the major steps involved?

   

  1. Understand: Establish a common understanding of equity terms; ground equity concepts in the reality of conservation work; and place equity in the context of the team’s conservation work. (2-hour, facilitated workshop).

  2. Reflect: Discuss where your team stands today in regard to equity; establish a baseline of where equity is integrated into your existing strategies, and determine how to better integrate equity into your planning process and the resulting strategies. (2.5-hour, facilitated workshop).

  3. Readiness to Act: Follow this self-guided document to connect your team with key resources, and tools that can help you functionally integrate equity into your conservation planning. This step has no time commitment, and teams can reference the self-guided document as needed.