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 need to consider if we’re going to strengthen equity in our strategy?
  • How can we build equity into our strategy from the start?
  • What do we mean by equity? And how do we integrate DEIJ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice) in the planning process?
  • What are 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 of 2 hours each.

• 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. Session 1: Understanding. Establish a common understanding of equity and equitable conservation, explore examples of equity and inequity in practice, connect equity to the various stages of strategy development, and receive guidance on how to describe what equity means in the context of their strategy. 
  2. Session 2: Reflect. Complete a guided self-assessment on how equity has been addressed in the strategy so far, explore what it would mean to better integrate equity, and identify steps to do so.