World Wildlife Fund and CARE Launch Strategic Alliance Planning
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
In January 2009, CARE and WWF began implementing a systematic effort to build new joint capacity through the development of a strategic alliance, building upon lessons learned and the foundation created by previous collaborative efforts.
To further this work, representatives of the two organizations met in Maputo, Mozambique from the 23-26 of February 2009 with the following purpose: Initiate creation of an overarching, bold new vision for conservation and development and an initial action plan for the CARE-WWF Strategic Alliance.
This workshop builds on the agreement made between CARE and WWF to develop an important new initiative in East and Southern Africa. The initiative will address escalating threats to landscapes and to the livelihoods of the people who depend on them. A starting point for the alliance’s work is the understanding that while past actions have yielded significant benefits, they have not kept pace with or matched the scale of these growing threats or the breadth of potential opportunities.
The workshop successfully produced a draft vision, criteria for selecting geographies/issues for future work, identified a specific geography for initial analysis work, developed a work plan for the initial analysis, conceptualized a framework for a longer-term analysis project, and convened a Creative Ideas Laboratory which articulated a number of conceptual possibilities for Alliance programs/initiatives that could yield significant impact and exposure
Working together with the WWF/CARE Team, the Glen Price Group was delighted to design, facilitate, and document the Maputo workshop. We’ll be working with the team over the course of the next year to support the development of this strategic alliance and we’re looking forward to great things!
Workshop Participants Take a Break for a Group Shot!