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THE PLACE The Cambridge Conservation Initiative is a unique collaboration between the University of Cambridge and nine leading international conservation organisations, including BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora, IUCN, RSPB, TRAFFIC, and the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Together these ten partners work across research, education, policy, and practice to drive conservation worldwide. THE CHALLENGE With projects spread across the globe, CCI needed to understand where its partners’ efforts overlapped, both to plan how best to collaborate and to communicate the power of the partnership to donors and decision-makers. Because each organisation tracked its work in its own way, bringing that information together called for a careful blend of data gathering and spatial mapping expertise. |
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OUR APPROACH GCS interviewed representatives from each of the ten partner organisations to identify the countries where they had an active presence. We transferred the information into a custom-designed spatial database, allowing CCI to track how its collective footprint changes over time as projects wrap up and new ones begin. Using the partnership database, we produced a Global Collaboration Map showing the number of CCI partners active in every country on earth, turning fragmented project data into a single, clear picture of the network’s worldwide reach. RESULTS & IMPACT A Global Collaboration Map depicting CCI partner presence in every country on earth A custom spatial database that tracks the partnership’s footprint over time A clear evidence base for where CCI can most effectively focus its collective efforts A compelling tool to communicate the partnership’s global reach to donors and decision-makers |