Collective Impact Project – Public Presentations

Two presentations pitched at two very different audiences in the same week was Craig Pensini Project Manager, Collective Impact, brief.

• At the 2024 Perth NRM AGM, Craig presented Establishing a Collective Impact approach for restoring natural capital in Western Australia’s southwest farming landscape.
• At the 2024 Conservation Council WA Annual Conference Craig and Ingrid Sieler delivered a workshop on Working collectively to restore Western Australia’s southwest farming landscape. How can consumers be involved?

These addresses were a great opportunity to publicly promote the broader Restoration Impact Framework project and reflect on how the collective impact approach had performed following the fourth and final workshop.

The presentation at Perth NRM’s AGM was to a mixed audience comprising of invited guests, board members and Perth NRM staff. Craig summarised the use of a collective impact framework to restoring natural capital in WA’s southwest farming landscape. It framed the story around

1. The problem – Farming (what history was telling us) and why (business as usual) isn’t good enough going forward.
2. A solution – Farming, using a couple of practice change examples of Regenerative Agriculture and Natural Capital Accounting.
3. This project work – Collective Impact framework

Figure 1 Collective Impact Workshop Series

It was a compact summary of a significant amount of work completed since the project commenced in mid-2023.

The second presentation and group workshop at the CCWA conference engaged twenty attendees in our 45-minute breakout session. After an overview of the Collective Impact approach participants shared their thoughts in the Stakeholder Groups Outcomes and Actions exercise. During robust discussion the short-, medium- and long-term changes to change consumer attitudes and behaviours were mapped. Topics included food security, youth education and behaviour of the large supermarket chains – all current to the news cycle.

Figure 2: Stakeholder Groups Outcomes and Actions

Feedback from the workshop will be incorporated to the information collected during the four Collective Impact workshops and form part of the project report.

The Restoration Impact Framework project is funded by Lotterywest and Commonland with collective impact workshops delivered by Impact Seed and coordinated by Perth NRM. Please contact Craig Pensini at [email protected] for further information.