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Evidence Emergency project


Evidence Emergency was made possible with the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Made possible with Heritage Fund

To help us address this challenge, we have developed prototypes of an Evidence Competency Framework and Self-assessment Tool for Wildlife Trust staff, to enable us to more efficiently use our existing skills but also identify where we might need to invest in training to facilitate upskilling at a cross-federation scale.

We worked with 13C Consulting Ltd to quality assure our Competency Framework and Data for Action led us through a series of prototyping workshops to produce a functioning Self-assessment Tool prototype that we have tested with Wildlife Trust staff and will improve on in future iterations.

The grant from the Heritage Fund also enabled us to pilot some evidence-based training, to test how this could work within the Wildlife Trusts federation. Alcedo Conservation worked with facilitators from Kent Wildlife Trust and The Vincent Wildlife Trust, to deliver training in ‘Getting Started with the Conservation Standards’ – a five-step adaptive management cycle, supporting conservation teams to develop and implement projects that are robust, evidence-based, and relevant to their