Elinor is a free and open-source monitoring tool that helps users gather, store, share, and use data on environmental governance and management to support more effective area-based conservation.
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WHY SHOULD I USE IT?
Elinor can be applied as either a field-based assessment with a trained facilitator or as a desk-based tool that harnesses local and practitioner knowledge.
The questions within Elinor are high-level, covering a broad range of topics and can help stakeholders better understand issues related to the equitable governance and management of areas under protection or management.
TRACKING CHANGE
Elinor has been designed primarily to help track changes over time, thus can be used at any stage in the project cycle to:
- Indicate the suitability of a site for different types of interventions
- Highlight areas that require more focused interventions to enhance implementation efforts.
- Invite stakeholders to collaboratively reflect on a broad range of issues important for area-based conservation
"Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels." ELINOR OSTROM
In Honor
Elinor “Lin” Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics in 2009, but her legacy extends far beyond that singular honor. Ostrom and her colleagues countered the dominant narrative around the tragedy of the commons (which argued that individuals pursue their own interest even when it goes against the collective good—made famous by an ecologist who was a known racist and eugenicist). Ostrom’s theory on governing the commons proved that our planet could be protected through community, collaboration, and cooperation.
Research on the governance of common pool resource management pushed boundaries of science and challenged the usual divisions between disciplines. Working in true partnership with others who understood the world in different ways, Ostrom and her colleagues paved the way for a new research community and body of knowledge that embraces diversity and the intertwined nature of human and natural systems.
Ostrom’s legacy shapes how we work today in conservation, and by honoring her in our work, we hope that her insights can help us all better support both the communities and governance systems that protect our natural resources now and into the future.