Create a Network or Alliance

Indigenous Guardian networks or alliances may help you lead a more successful, impactful and efficient program. By collaborating with others you can:

• Overcome the limitations of working on complex issues alone.
• Leverage resources and program support.
• Increase your negotiating power.
• Advocate on larger issues.
• Lead coordinated monitoring and stewardship efforts across a bigger geographic region.

You may want to work with others to advocate for provincial or territorial policy changes, to develop shared goals around a particular species, or for longer-term monitoring and research initiatives.

Networks and alliances can lead to informal short-term arrangements or longer-term commitments that require coordination through an agreement such as a Memorandum of Understanding.

Explore this section to learn:

1. Why you might form a network or alliance.
2. What Indigenous guardian networks exist now.
3. The right conditions to build or join a network or alliance.
4. The different sizes and types of networks or alliances.
5. The role of network or alliance staff.