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Great progress on Common Agenda at GLPC workshop
Reposted from the Great Lakes Phragmites Collaborative website
A group with diverse skills and jurisdictional representations made excellent progress at a Phragmites workshop this week. The workshop was held at the US Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center and focused on development of a Common Agenda for the Great Lakes Phragmites Collaborative. Under the theory of Collective Impact, a Common Agenda is a shared understanding of a specific problem and an agreed-upon path to addressing it. Over two days, facilitator Erik Lockhart of Queen’s University used digital tools to combine and collate participant feedback on needed goals, activities and deliverables for the Collaborative over the short and long term.
This work toward a Common Agenda will be refined into a draft document and shared with the GLPC’s Advisory Committee in the coming weeks. Phrag experts across the Great Lakes basin will then have the opportunity to provide feedback and join one of several working groups focused on several subject areas.
Workshop attendees should be commended on their enthusiastic participation and excellent feedback.
Updates on the Common Agenda and invitations to comment will be provided on this website as well as the Phragmites listserv.
The workshop was jointly organized by the Great Lakes Commission and the US Geological Survey.
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The Great Lakes Commission, led by chairman Jon Allan, director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes, is an interstate compact agency established under state and U.S. federal law and dedicated to promoting a strong economy, healthy environment and high quality of life for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region and its residents. The Commission consists of governors’ appointees, state legislators, and agency officials from its eight member states. Associate membership for Ontario and Québec was established through the signing of a “Declaration of Partnership.” The Commission maintains a formal Observer program involving U.S. and Canadian federal agencies, tribal authorities, binational agencies and other regional interests. The Commission offices are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Learn more at www.glc.org.