EA Led Workshop, Working Together: A Catchment Partner Insight and Evaluation workshop

This gathering brings together passionate practitioners, policymakers, and innovators to explore how NBS can transform our rivers and catchments. While all catchment partners are welcome, the day is tailored to empower eNGOs with fresh insights, practical tools, and collaborative opportunities.

Featuring as part of the Agenda: 

Opening Video address from Minister Hardy

A session on highways run-off with Jo Bradley at Stormwater Shepherds and Jose Garvi-Serrano at National Highways

An introduction to the One Data Model with Dave Johnson at the Rivers Trust and MNbS – Learn more about this consistent format for reporting project intervention, management and monitoring data across nature, water and stewardship schemes. With CVF, enables integrated systems planning and reduced transaction costs.

Afternoon Carousel of workshops

• River Basin Plans with DEFRA – This session will explore how catchment partnerships and catchment-level planning can integrate better with River Basin Management Planning. We are keen to hear from attendees what has or hasn’t worked in the current system, and what reforms they think would help increase engagement and delivery from catchment partnerships within the RBMP framework.
• CaBa Theory of Change – This session will invite attendees to review the mapped CaBA Theory of Change to make sure it reflects the range of activity and practice across partnerships. CaBA continues to evolve as any long‑running programme does, so this is a chance to check we have a clear and shared understanding of its current shape and its journey so far. This session will be supported by a live illustrator who will create a rich picture capturing the realities of catchment‑based working — the complexities, the barriers, and the opportunities. The final illustration is intended to be both thought‑provoking and informative, offering a visual way to reflect on shared challenges and possibilities.
• Future Water Framework Theory of Change – The workshop aims to clarify the intended outcomes of proposed water governance reforms and assess the extent to which these reforms address existing barriers and risks. The Theory of Change will help us to assess how future water governance could operate and address current challenges and define clear, measurable inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes for regional system planner pilots. The Theory of Change will incorporate national, regional, and local/catchment scale and consider connections between each of these scales.
• 20 Minutes to Better Partnering with Paul Shaffer and Darren Eckford CIWEM