Watershed Conservation Strategies

Watershed Conservation Strategies
Upper Etowah Watershed
Conservation Programs, Tools, Techniques and Resources
　
Case Study: Institutional Arrangements

1. What do you want to do?
2. Who do you want to do it?
3. How should they do it?
4. How will they do it?
5. Area: Define geographic context
6. Authority: Ownership; Local government authorities; State or federal legislation, etc.
7. Membership: Identify the stakeholders (full partners)
8. Existing Powers: What can you do now?

Administration & Operations
Decision-making:
Planning:
Coordination:
Cooperation/ Collaboration:
Regulation:
Resource management:
Land Acquisition:
Technical/ Informational assistance:
Funding:
Acquisition
Operation & Maintenance
Planning
Other


9. Institutional Arrangement: How do you want to partner?

10. Advantages: What do you like?

11. Disadvantages: What do you dislike?

12. Desired Powers: What do you need?

IV. Framework: An Outline for Describing Programs
　
A. AUTHORITIES: What authorities do governments, groups/ organizations have?
　
B. PERFORMANCE: Where is information on how well programs perform?
　
C. ACTIVITIES: Where is information on various organization/ agency activities?
　
D: CASE STUDIES: What information describes what is being done at the community/ local level?
　
E. TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: What information is available on how things work?
　
F. INTEGRATED APPROACHES: What information is available on how activities/ actions are packaged together?
　
G. RESOURCES: Where is information about technical, financial and information assistance?
　
H. SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION: Where do you get leads?