Clients

CiTY oF NEWPORT BEACH (Ca)

Integrated Regional Coastal Water Management Plan

When you have 80 agencies working together to integrate and prioritize 150 watershed projects, you need a structured platform for planning, implementation and performance monitoring. S4S is providing the Newport Bay Watershed Management Committee with our online collaboration workspace to support their IRWMP (Integrated Regional Water Management Plan). S4S is working with local consulting partners to support an annual planning and performance management process, producing a clear set of process steps, strategic projects, and working groups. This is increasing the effectiveness of collaboration between the various agencies and organizations working toward watershed restoration.

Fraser Salmon & Watersheds Program/Living Rivers Initiative (BC)

Fraser Watershed Shared Outcomes Initiative

S4S led a collaborative planning and visioning process between federal and provincial governments, First Nations, NGOs and other parties to identify and articulate shared outcomes and activities on the Fraser Watershed for a number of critical areas such as Planning & Governance, Ecosystem Function and Sustainable Resource Management. S4S acted as lead consulting firm and worked in collaboration with three other consulting firms - BMB Consulting (Ottawa), Chartwell Group (Toronto) and Price Waterhouse Coopers (Vancouver) - to design and facilitate a process that brought key parties working on the Fraser Watershed together to enhance collaboration between these groups. Working with its partners, S4S developed outcome frameworks to support the implementation of this large collaborative program that leveraged existing frameworks and methodologies in use in provincial, national and international jurisdictions. The results and lessons learned from this initiative are being extended to other complex collaboration initiatives regionally and nationally in Canada.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada/Conservation NGOs of Canada (Canada)

CNGO-DFO Coalition Visioning Initiative

S4S facilitated a coalition building, visioning and strategic plan implementation process between Fisheries and Oceans Canada Habitat and nine of the core Conservation NGOs in Canada working on the conservation, protection and restoration of aquatic habitat in Canada. The Agencies involved have over 1.5 million members and cover all geographic regions of Canada as well as marine jurisdictions. The coalition developed a shared outcome model that allowed it to speak with a single voice regarding key issue, priorities and actions required to enhance protection and conservation of aquatic habitat in all corners of Canada.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada/Fraser Basin Council (BC)

Integrated Salmon Dialogue Forum

Working towards a fully sustainable salmon fishery in ways that respect the Wild Salmon Policy and serve both people and salmon can be challenging. S4S is co-facilitating a collaborative and inclusive dialogue forum to being leaders from all governments, First Nations and interested parties together to enter into deep dialogue on key issues and challenges facing salmon in Pacific Canada and build new governance, compliance and decision-making processes and structures. S4S is leading a process to establish a region-wide Monitoring and Compliance Panel made up of governments, First Nations, resource sector, NGO and citizens representatives to develop and implement monitoring and compliance best practices in the Pacific Region.

Royal Roads University Foundation (Canada)

Robert Bateman Centre for Art and Environmental Education

S4S is providing facilitation and advisory services to support planning, design and development of the Robert Bateman Centre for Art and Environmental Education at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC. Renowned naturalist and wildlife artist Robert Bateman has endowed Royal Roads University with $10.7 million worth of original art, prints, photographs, archival materials and funds.  The endowment not only keeps Robert Bateman’s artistic body of work in Canada, it also presents a unique opportunity to demonstrate the commitment Royal Roads has to sustainable development and help the university become an “off-the-grid”, carbon-neutral university and a model for environmental learning and research.  Please see http://campaign.royalroads.ca/bateman-centre/overview for more information.

Fraser Basin Council/Pacific Salmon Foundation

Fraser Salmon and Watersheds Program

S4S provided the Fraser Salmon and Watersheds Program with consulting and collaboration technology services to support ongoing delivery of their program on the reaches of the Fraser River watershed in BC, Canada. S4S facilitated strategic planning and implementation processes to assist the program in developing key outcomes and priorities required to support the strategic objectives identified by the program funders and the Board. The S4S collaboration workspace was implemented to support user engagement and implementation activities for over 300 separate projects related to habitat stewardship & restoration, governance, fisheries management and education and awareness.