Co-Designing Conservation

Join the growing movement of environmental professionals working with their surrounding community to co-design the conservation programs that will impact those communities the most! Learn to psychology of how to build community members' long-term ownership and motivation for conservation by co-designing environmental programs with, not for, diverse communities.  Catalyze the urgent and equitable community engagement needed to conserve biodiversity in our world today. Through detailed case studies of conservation projects that have effectively applied psychology to co-desgn, this course dives deep into stakeholder mapping, budgeting, iterative planning, and measuring effectivness to helps you to learn the seminal tenets of why and how to create inclusive conservation programming that will last long after the conservation organization leaves.

Students will learn the basic principles that underpin long-term engagement of stakeholders in the co-design of conservation programming with the community it will impact the most.

• Understand why it is important to co-design conservation with (not for) communities
  
  Demonstrate how to map stakeholders, budget, iteratively plan for, and measure the success of co-design projects within diverse communities
  
  Explore analysis methods that help choose equitable engagement strategies
  
  Practice engagement strategies and how to calculate which works best for your program
  
  Identify how to define and measure success