The last few months have been a flurry of activity as we have hit the phones and emails to line up a fantastic group of speakers and book co-authors for the Knowledge for managing Australian Landscapes: The legacy of Land & Water Australia Conference and proceedings book.
The program has been designed to try to present a cross-section of the LWRRDC/LWA portfolio from 1990-2009. It is unashamedly biased towards those innovations that have emerged as having high impact and good returns on investment through the portfolio evaluation work of the last decade, but we have also found room for some more recent significant work such as Senior Research Fellowships. We encourage you to come along and be part of what promises to be a terrific event!
To download the program click here and to find out more about the conference click here.
Last week I wrapped up the Information and Knowledge Strategy workshops for the NSW Government Office of the Hawkesbury Nepean (OHN). From the workshop process OHN now has a Strategy with tangible actions to implement over the coming six months as well as further actions to implement in the longer term through a continuous review, planning and improvement process.
The Strategy will greatly assist OHN in its role of improving public access to information and advice about management strategies concerning the health of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River System.
The work of your NRM organisation could also benefit from an Information and Knowledge Strategy. To find out how you could be trained to facilitate the process in your organisation click here, and to find out more about the Information and Knowledge Strategy process click here.
We all use information and knowledge in our work, but have you ever stopped and thought about how well you and your colleagues are managing information and knowledge?
Learn how to facilitate the Information and Knowledge Strategy process from the Information and Knowledge Resource Kit www.ikrk.arrc.com.au
To find out more click here.
The ARRC, in collaboration with Triple Helix Consulting, is delighted to be presenting the “Knowledge for managing Australian landscapes – the legacy of Land & Water Australia” conference.
The intent of this two day conference is to reflect on the legacy of Land & Water Australia (LWA), to bring people together in a content-rich celebration, to highlight some recent exciting work, and to consider how the sorts of work funded by LWA can best be organised and resourced in future. This is an independent conference, under-written by Triple Helix Consulting. The Australian Academy of Science is generously making Canberra’s Shine Dome available for this event at no cost.
To find out more click here.
Measuring condition, and changes over time, is an essential component of good natural resource management (NRM). Without this information, how can we know whether our land, water or biodiversity is in good condition, getting better or worse, or whether our management is effective in reaching our goals or needs to be changed? As the old adage says, “if you don’t measure, you can’t manage”.
Despite the obvious value and sense in measurement, governments have for a long time been unwilling to fund monitoring as a component of NRM projects. Although funds are available to undertake a range of management activities, NRM programs seem unwilling to fund the essential monitoring required to demonstrate whether that management met its objectives, provided good value for money, or can be improved upon. Sure, there is monitoring of project outputs, such as number of trees planted, kilometers fenced or meetings held, but no measurement of outcomes achieved, that is, of the resources themselves. This has led to repeated criticism of NRM programs by audit offices and others. Read more »
Events | Siwan Lovett | 
7 March 2010 2:31 pm | 
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