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The Partnership is working with leaders from many of its partner organizations to build a performance framework from which we will work to engage scientists, policy leaders, decision makers, communications experts, and other key leaders integral to our success in improving the health of the Sound. This framework is being centered around a tool known as the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Developed by leading experts in environmental conservation work from around the world, Open Standards has been chosen as one of the Partnership’s key tools for convening key players, considering our highest priorities, aligning our collective efforts, and telling the important stories about the Sound that need to be told ... both our successes and our opportunities for improvement.

This is Phase II of our Open Standards work, having accomplished our Phase I work with training and initial results chain development last year. This year, we are working to broaden the net by coming together surrounding the updating of the Action Agenda, Target Setting, improving the Dashboard of Ecosystem Indicators over time, support the work of the newly emerging Monitoring Program, and overall align the Partnership’s key, strategic initiatives.

For further information about the Conservation Measures Partnership, the Open Standards tool, the recommended Miradi software, and the associated methodologies, tools and techniques available to us, go to:

Miradi.org

Open Standards Version 2.0.pdf

For further information about the Partnership’s deployment of the Open Standards, please feel free to contact one of the members of our Open Standards

Core Team:

  • Scott Redman, Lead Facilitator
  • Ken Currens
  • Rebecca Ponzio
  • David St. John
  • Kathleen Igros
  • Chris Davis, The Nature Conservancy