CAP/RISA 2023 Network Meeting

Agenda Track

2023 Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) Network Meeting

For questions regarding this agenda, please contact oar.cpo.risa@noaa.gov. 

Seattle, WA, November 7-9, 2023

Time Zone: PST 

 

Network Meeting Objectives:

  • Share guidance from and facilitate interaction between CAP/RISA teams and federal leadership.
  • Promote interaction across the CAP/RISA network and peer-to-peer learning.
  • Learn about and engage with recent and ongoing frontline community engagement.
  • Characterize and develop a shared understanding of transformational adaptation in the CAP/RISA network.

 

Day 1: Engagement with Frontline Communities

 

Goals:

  • Advance understanding of challenges and successful approaches to engaging and partnering with frontline communities in the co-production of climate adaptation solutions.
  • Familiarize network members with established principles of ethical engagement.
  • Consider ways in which climate services must evolve to meet the needs of frontline communities.

 

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome Reception

 

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Introductory Remarks from CAP/RISA Program Management and NOAA Leadership

Speakers: Chelsea Combest-Friedman, Jainey Bavishi

 

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM BREAK

 

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Existing Frontline Community Engagement in the Network (lightning talks)

This session will feature lightning talks on existing frontline community engagement efforts in the network (one lightning talk per team). Lightning talks will focus on identifying a challenge or opportunity/bright spot for engagement such as discussing innovative funding mechanisms, reciprocity, and partnerships with HBCUs, MSIs, and CBOs, etc. 

Lead Organizer: CPO

Facilitator: TBD

 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM LUNCH (provided)

 

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM  Small Grants (panel)

This session will serve as an opportunity for team members who administer small grants to discuss effective strategies, challenges, and successes.

Lead Organizer(s): Jenna Jorns

Panelists: Ali Hayden, Katie Cann, Zack Thill, Krista Romita Grocholski 

 

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Challenges and Opportunities in Frontline Community Engagement (panel)

This session will allow for group discussion to unpack the challenges and opportunities presented in the previous session and to share methods and approaches for addressing them. 

Lead Organizer: CPO

Facilitator: Genie Bey

Panelists: Katie Clifford, Patricia Fabian, Christina Greene, Rishi Sugla 

 

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Reflection and Identification of Topics for Further Discussion (polls)

This session will allow the network to come back together to reflect on the challenges and opportunities discussed in the first two sessions. Polls will be used to identify key themes to work through and discuss in the final session.

Lead Organizer(s): Caylah Cruickshank

Co-organizers: Katie Cann, Tori Field, Guillaume Mauger

 

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM BREAK

 

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM   Unpacking the Challenges and Opportunities in Frontline Community Engagement (world cafe)

This interactive session will allow for deep discussion across multiple small groups to discuss the key themes identified for further discussion through the lens of thinking through guidelines for ethical community-engaged research.

Example topics:

  • Innovative Funding Mechanisms - Reducing the barriers to compensating community partners and advance funding equity.
  • Partnerships - Working with and through HBCUs, MSIs, CBOs etc. to better engage frontline communities.
  • Reciprocity - Thinking through what reciprocity in research looks like. What should researchers aspire to, and what is a basic ethical standard? How do teams address this issue both as individual researchers, a team, and with their institutions?

Lead Organizer(s): Caylah Cruickshank

Co-organizers: Katie Cann, Tori Field, Guillaume Mauger

 

 

 

Day 2: Transformational Adaptation and Evaluation

 

Goals:

  • Provide an overview of the current state of the transformational adaptation literature (including gaps in knowledge) where our network has made contributions to the field to date.
  • Discuss programmatic evaluation approaches for documenting the societal impact of our work and progress toward transformational adaptation, including incremental progress.
  • Explore ways in which our network can be more deliberate and strategic in supporting incremental and transformational adaptation. 

 

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  Keynote Speaker and Q&A

 

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM BREAK

 

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Transformational Adaptation (presentation, panel, breakout discussion)

This panel will offer an overview of the state of research on transformational adaptation, and explore the characteristics of and conditions needed for transformational change, and how to advance transformational outcomes across the network in alignment with the CAP/RISA Program Theory.

Lead Organizer: CPO

Facilitator: Sean Bath

Presentor: Julie Yapur

Panelists: Jason Vogel, Linda Shi

 

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM LUNCH (provided)

 

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM  Evaluation and Evidence of Impact (presentations, breakout discussion)

The session will allow for participants to explore effective project and program evaluation methods to document the societal impact of our work, our understanding of success, and progress towards transformative adaptation. This session will also identify gaps in evaluation practices and describe how future evaluation efforts can be most useful to the program.

Lead Organizers: Gigi Owen and Tamara Wall

Co-organizers: Malgosia Madajewicz, Rachel Riley, Jen Runkle, Victoria Keener, Ann Nyambega, Liliana Caughman 

 

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM BREAK

 

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Equity and Climate Services Focus Group 

This focus group is for the CAP network to provide feedback on how services need to happen for equitable outcomes in communities and what NOAA’s role might be in that work. 

Lead Organizer: CPO

Facilitator: Ariela Zycherman

 

3:15 PM - 5:15 PM Tools and Methods Cafe (stations)

This session will serve as an opportunity for teams to highlight tools and methods developed by and/or used within their teams.

Lead Organizer: CPO

 

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Program Managers Meeting

 

4:15 PM - 5:15 PM CAP/RISA Executive Committee Meeting

 

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Networking Event

 

 

 

Day 3: Network Scalability and Transferability

 

Goals:

  • Discuss hot topics across the network including climate migration, outreach and communication strategies, and amplifying research beyond formal academic pathways.
  • Explore the distinction between work focused at one scale and work that can be scaled up, scaled across, and scaled deep; and how our network can balance both aspects for greater impact. 
  • Discuss the strength of a network and brainstorm new strategies for cross network learning and collaboration through our shared vision of CAP/RISA.

 

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Concurrent Sessions: Hot Topics From Across the Network

  • Climate Migration
    • This session will allow for participants to discuss how to facilitate appropriate political responses to migration in the face of existing uncertainty such as the framing of climate migration as a hazard vs an opportunity.
  • Peer to Peer Learning on Regional Team Outreach and Communication Strategies
    • This session will allow teams to share messaging and strategies for how to communicate about the role of a regional team to your set of stakeholders/partners, and explore innovative approaches to communicate with a wider audience outside of the deeper collaborative research work.
  • Mobilizing and Amplifying Research
    • This session will provide a space for participants to discuss strategies for amplifying research findings and efforts outside of formal academic pathways, including both to inform policy decisions and to increase access of research findings for non-academic partners.
      • Lead Organizer(s): Victoria Keener
      • Co-Organizers: Benét Duncan, Danielle Meeker, Mari Ching, Rachel Riley

 

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM BREAK

 

9:45 AM - 11:30 AM  Network Scalability & Transferability (panel, breakout discussion)

This session will provide an opportunity for participants to explore the distinction between work focused at one scale and work that can be scaled up, scaled across, and scaled deep and how our network can balance working across both through a shared vision of our focus and collective purpose. The session will also highlight partnerships that could be prioritized to support and advance scalability and transferability across the network.

Organizer: NCRC 

 

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Final Remarks

 

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM LUNCH (on your own)

 

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM Field Trip (Optional)