Mountain Studies Institute Strategic Plan 2021-2023

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11 Mountain Studies Institute INNOVATE SOLUTIONS ISSUE STATEMENT: The challenges of our time—environmental degradation, climate change, drought, social disruption—call us to find new solutions, methods of collaboration, and creativity to improve lives and the environment. To effect change requires asking questions, challenging the norms and practices of people and institutions, and thinking differently about our work, about the way we do our work, and about who is doing the work. It also requires creating a culture and support network that believes change will result in a better outcome. Priorities for Action • Invest in our capacity to facilitate the full cycle of understanding, thereby evolving and solving complex problems—investigate, define, prototype, test, adapt, and apply—to increase the pace and scale of developing and adopting solutions that meet community needs. • Strengthen our ability to facilitate and lead initiatives in design thinking that generates solutions that are local and generated in partnership with end-users and intended benefactors. • Enhance support for networks and collaborations which will yield benefits from continuous learning and emergent organizational practices to accelerate and institutionalize rapid learning. • Support the design process and new ideas at the peer and institutional levels. MSI models of collaboration will build networks, support leaders, and reduce risk in innovation. • Stress the urgency of local context in our work. There is often a lack of urgency among governmental and donor decision-makers to understand local problems and conditions. Instead, decisions are based on generalized viewpoints instead of contextualized, local data that carries significant downstream effects on broader ecosystems. • Guide innovation to be local, relevant, and beneficial for the users of the solutions.
Strategic Plan 2021-2023 12 IF WE: Innovate solutions to address challenges relevant to mountain communities, now and in the future; Facilitate new methods of collaboration and science-based initiatives to promote and sustain social, ecological, and economic resilience; and Promote innovative solutions at multiple scales, connecting place-based innovations to higher levels of decision-making and discussion to be inclusive, diverse, and representative, THEN: A network of practitioners with the knowledge, skills, experience, and confidence to advance the state of practice and policies is active; Market and donor demand for applied mountain science is increased and sustained; and More people and institutions contribute to, support, and activate science, AND THEREFORE: The resilience of the mountain ecosystem is strengthened through restorative and regenerative solutions that are derived from and supported by a myriad of community voices and institutions. This includes a local economic ecosystem that supports mountain science and its applications.
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