session 6: building collaboration in biosecurity innovation systems
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biosecurity built on science
Building collaborative biosecurity innovation systemsDr Cathy RobinsonCSIRO
Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre
biosecurity built on science
Why?- Detecting, diagnosing and responding to biosecurity threats require that
community, government, and industry have a shared knowledge base,
motivation and commitment to their biosecurity responsibilities
- Innovative partnerships between industry, government and community
exists ….but can be challenging
Social innovation for better biosecurityEffective biosecurity surveillance relies on social innovation as well as technical innovation
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How?Targeted stakeholder engagement strategies to fit the biophysical context, social and institutional context, and (preparedness, surveillance, investigation and alert) modes
Curnock, M, Robinson, C, Fabatko, C. In review. Factors that influence why community gardeners are engaged, disengaged and unengaged in biosecurity in Northern Queensland, Geographic Research
Social innovation for better biosecurity
We need to build social innovation through partnerships
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50 shades of collaboration for biosecurity
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Challenges of collaboration for biosecurity
• current biosecurity governance network favours within-scale interactions rather than cross-scale interactions
• limited cross-scale interactions can challenge efforts to build trust between stakeholders and ensure coordination of decisions across scales
McAllister R, Robinson CJ, Maclean K, Guerrero A, Collins K, Taylor B, De Barro P. 2015. From local to central: A network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales. Ecology and Society 20(1): 67.
biosecurity built on science
Challenges of collaboration for biosecurity
Different stakeholder groups trust and use different kinds of information and information sources to assess biosecurity risk
Stakeholder Engagement
Robinson CJ, Maclean K, Hill R, Bock E, Rist P. 2015. Participatory mapping to negotiate Indigenous knowledge used to assess environmental risk. Sustainability Science.
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Stakeholder engagement for surveillance
Stakeholder engagement
• drives collaborative partnerships• key mechanism for assessing and managing biosecurity risks• needs to occur across all decision-making levels• needs to occur during all biosecurity operations• requires time to build relationships, mutual learning and trust
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Stakeholder engagement for Collaboration toolkit
Stage 1
Stage 2
Evaluate the performance of
stakeholder engagement
strategies
Identify key stakeholders
Develop desired objectives for stakeholder engagement
Build consensus on which engagement strategies will give the best return on
investment
Create a suite of stakeholder engagement
strategies
Who to engage? – Identify key stakeholders
Why engage? – Develop desired objectives for stakeholder engagement
How to engage? – Create a suite of appropriate stakeholder engagement strategies
Success? – Evaluate the performance of each stakeholder engagement strategy
Bang for buck? – Build consensus on which engagement strategies will give the best return on investment
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Stakeholder engagement toolkit - applications
http://www.pbcrc.com.au/research/project/4004
Banana Freckle, Myrtle Rust and Panama Disease Tropical Race 4 incursions & NAQs and community garden surveillance activities
• Which stakeholder engagement activities will enable biosecurity knowledge and responsibility to be shared ?
• Which stakeholder is engaged, disengaged or un-engaged in a biosecurity issue (and why?)
• How can we create or refine partnerships to allow community, industry and government to work together better across multiple decision-making scales?
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Thank you
Dr Cathy RobinsonPrincipal Research Scientist
CSIRO