Collaboration with internal and external partners, stakeholders, and various communities is paramount to the success of advancing equity and removing inequities in NRCS programs, policies, and services.
Collaboration with internal and external partners, stakeholders, and various communities is paramount to the success of advancing equity and removing inequities in NRCS programs, policies, and services. Transformation requires that the people experiencing problems are at the center of determining the solutions to inequities, rather than experts deciding for them. Local, boots on the ground, regional, and national equity work is prudent, but it requires partnership, association, alliance, and cooperation with communities to achieve equity.
Equitable collaboration with underserved communities is critical to ensuring efforts for change are informed by the lived experiences of individuals and communities those efforts seek to benefit. NRCS will pursue equity as all levels of the agency will be committed to working in partnership with communities, partners, stakeholders, and other institutions.
Types of partners include, but are not limited to:
- Conservation Districts
- Local communities
- Community Based Organizations
- Federal, State, and Local agencies
- Tribal entities
- NRCS Earth Team volunteers
- Agricultural and environmental groups
- State Technical Committees
- Professional societies
- Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Councils
- Colleges and Universities
- Conservation organizations
- Agribusiness
- Sportsperson Groups
- Technical Service Providers
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Conserving our natural resources is not a one-person job. NRCS succeeds through its partnerships, working closely with individual farmers and ranchers, landowners, local conservation districts, government agencies, Tribes, Earth Team volunteers and many other people and groups.
