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Collaboration and Stewardship
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Sustainable Northwest has advanced collaborative decisionmaking around natural resource management for 15 years. We've held workshops and forums to help communities throughout the region advance stewardship practices.
The following are a number of resources and publications that Sustainable Northwest and partners have developed to advance this sustainable natural resources management.
- Best Value and Stewardship Contracting Guidebook
- This guidebook provides information for those working on stewardship contracting with a basic understanding of its best value requirements, and offers examples of best value evaluation criteria used in actual project solicitations.
- Collaboration Issue Paper
- Discusses the value of using collaborative approaches to resolve natural resource management issues.
- Forest Service Contracting: A Basic Guide for Restoration Practitioners
- This guide provides an overview of the contracts, agreements, and permits available to pursue restoration work on national forests, and provides contractors with information on how to find and bid on restoration contracts.
- Red Lodge Clearinghouse
- The Red Lodge Clearinghouse is a great resource for collaborators and resource stewards in the West.
- Stewardship Contracting Guidebooks
- A series of three guidebooks discussing aspects of stewardship contracting including multiparty monitoring, collaboration, and best value criteria.
- Strategies for Supporting Frontline Collaboration 2010
- This report published by the IBM Center for The Business of Government addresses how an agency headquarters can encourage collaboration on the front line with community-level stakeholders. Findings give four strategies to foster collaboration: (1) creating time and space for collaboration, (2) changing agency rules to encourage collaboration, (3) providing staff incentives to collaborate, and (4) building the capacity to collaborate in the agency as well as among stakeholders.
