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Cat FullerAdur & Ouse catchment co-ordinator Environment Agency25 April 2012
ContentCurrent Pilot catchments
Steps so far for the Adur and Ouse
Adur and Ouse pilot catchment objectives
Collaborative Delivery Model
Examples and case studies
Emerging Lessons
100 catchments
25 pilots
41 wider initiatives
Steps so far for the Adur and Ouse:
Creation of EA virtual team and preparation of our evidence
Stakeholder Analysis 1-1 Conversations
Jointly agree governance, objectives, ways of working
Initiation of Catchment Steering group
Pilot Objectives for the Adur and Ouse
Working together to understand the issues.
Discussing and agreeing on outcomes and priorities.
Sharing information and resources.
Working together to tackle difficult issues that require multi-agency input.
Working collaboratively to deliver work on the ground to achieve the agreed outcomes.
Adur & Ouse Collaborative Delivery Model
Theme
Objectives
Targets
Action
Theme Strategic Aim, top level ONLY
Objectives What specifically do we want to do?
Targets Include evidence (where we are now & where we want to be)
Action What is going to be done by whom and by when.
Fisheries Surface Water quality
Natural Rivers
Groundwater
Engagement
Coastal Waters
Sussex Coastal Habitats Inshore Pilot Project (SCHIP)
Outputs:
Production of a high resolution habitat map
Ground truthed through dives and experts
Map will be used to inform the pressures for WFD and a baseline for the MCZ process
Series of participatory workshops to gather community input
Undertake a SWOT analysis of potential to utliilse community involvement in wider WFD monitoring
Coastal Waters
(c) NaturaImaging / Gerald Legg
Integrating Flood Risk Management with Water Framework
Directive: MorphCase Study: Morph
Morph is a catchment wide project addressing 15 sites within the river Ouse. We are combining our dual objectives through river and floodplain restoration
Community Engagement
We have held several stakeholder drop insessions in village halls to discuss the project
Following the drop in:90% understood why we are doing MORPH quite well or very well91% feel that restoration of the river & floodplain is the right thing to do1-1 engagement is now taking place at site specific locations
Natural Rivers
Use of social media and shared communications platform
Engagement
Knowledge Hub set up to help facilitate partnerships
Partner website to encourage debate and space for catchment blog, next step is to set up twitter
Identification of network of partner opportunities
Emerging Lessons:
Collaborative working takes time (a really long time)
You can never be too prepared for meetings
Mutual understanding of aspirations is critical for joint success
“Collaborative working isn’t rocket science……
…..it’s much harder than that”
www.environment-agency.gov.uk/catchmentshttp://www.fishactive.com/county/sussex/sussex-blogs
Thank You