Key Components
The Initiative’s four “streams” bring together different concepts and define what is inside and what is beyond its scope. Much like a stream channel they may braid together and overlap, forming a network that supports the Resilient Salmon Initiative’s activities.
Connect
- Align understanding and bridge Western science with Indigenous and local knowledge systems, across disciplines and sectors.
- Share knowledge and foster transboundary understanding among individuals, communities, and governments
- Create informed and proactive strategies across the region
- Coordinate across landscapes and disciplines to align ambitious goals, leverage support, unify data collection and management, reduce barriers, and maximize impact
- Amplify innovative and effective solutions developed at the local scale
Communicate
- Develop and share high-level, solution-focused reports and tools for decision-makers that can be launching pads for media outreach and public awareness
- Coordinate educational opportunities for decisionmakers to support resilience actions
- Lead a joint communications effort to raise awareness of risks and solutions with multiple audiences across the region
- Use storytelling and outreach to lead conversations with partner organizations and build public and political support
- Promote stories of success to build hope and garner public buy-in
Invest
- Build a regional case for major new public and private investments
- Engage philanthropic funders, policymakers, and business leaders with clear opportunities for impact.
- Connect identified needs to adequate funding
Act
- Seek areas of alignment with local entities and jurisdictions and build on existing plans, to advance both big, shovel-ready actions and smaller, innovative, pilot projects.
- Scale up on local successes through broad, coordinated regional implementation
- Fill key knowledge, data, and system gaps essential to inform transformative salmon recovery