Future West (FW) has created a grand plan to teach all of its buddies how to collaborate. It has created a "best practices" online guide for community based collaboration and has held workshops to teach all of its non-governmental organization (NGO) buddies how to execute collaboration.
FW presents four stages to this process: getting together, working together, delivering results, then finishing up with adaptation and resilience. Getting together involves identifying shared interests, clarifying what is to be achieved, including the "right" people, and providing facilitative (sic) leadership. The right people are getting others who hold similar ideological beliefs to build their capacity, which means increasing their numbers to overshadow citizens more in local areas they want to change. Working together is creating a framework for operations, making decisions together, building broad support, coordinating projects and activities, securing funding, and accessing technical expertise. This is pretty much the same as what most NGOs do, the framework of their objectives are the same for taking away land use and conserving it, continued taking of money from your tax dollar through government grants, and using manipulated science to justify their work. Getting things done includes communicating success which all NGOs do on their websites, and engaging decision makers which speaks to their enmeshed relationship with government agencies. Adaptation and resilience is the same old system that is used now, force a change then monitor it for continued success. A new slant is learning and adapting, assuming this is in response to the pretty assertive opposition to NGO agendas they have been experiencing in the last couple of years. Lastly, coping with change is part of the new scheme. This is again probably in reference to having to learn how to cope with the fact that not everyone agrees with them. How does one cope with that? The 2016 workshop included Mindy Crowell from Salmon Valley Stewardship. There is also a library of resources for NGOs to use in their work to collaborate. One significant issue FW missed is that citizens do no appreciate violations of their jurisdictional boundaries, the collusion with federal and state agencies, the use of hard earned tax dollars to fund their agenda, and their overall resistance and defiance towards listening to those citizens and intrusion into their lives. Once they provide training on this maybe they will make a little more headway.
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Under the auspices of the Network for Landscape Conservation, the High Divide Collaborative (HDC) held a webinar, Landscape Scale Conservation Through Community Based Collaboration, in August, 2019. How did that collaboration, which is always among yourself and other non-governmental organizations (NGO), and never local citizens, go for you over in the Salmon area during that time, HDC? The video can be viewed here or below. Don't be fooled at the beginning of the video claiming to build collaboration, inviting all stakeholders to the table, learning about their needs, and then incorporating that into goals. That is just the new strategy to groom citizens into believing they are being listened to. |