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Increasing and institutionalizing contributions to ECA implies connecting the individual plans and actions of civil society and institutional actors. This requires fostering social readiness, i.e. changing mind sets and behaviours, as much as addressing technical challenges.

Abstract

The more4nature project is exploring an increased role of citizens and communities in environmental compliance assurance (ECA) processes related to zero pollution, biodiversity protection and deforestation prevention. Essentially, increasing and institutionalizing contributions to ECA implies connecting the individual plans and actions of civil society and institutional actors, whether for data collection, data integration or policy monitoring and evaluation. Using a socio-technical approach and working with a large number of existing citizen science initiatives, more4nature takes case actors through a facilitated process that is designed to stimulate social learning and socio-technical experimentation, enabling them to envision and experiment with new roles and interactions to create previously unimagined possibilities in ECA. We aim to institutionalise contributions to ECA via citizen generated data as well as citizen and community-led actions. more4nature can contribute to this roundtable with specific insights from our needs analysis in 10 cases and provide an overview of the inventory of capacity building materials that we have produced for addressing identified social, technical and socio-technical needs, incentives and barriers that stand in the way of greater collaboration in ECA.