FIRNS Community of Practice Facilitation

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NatureScot along with the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF), and on behalf of Scottish Government, is running the Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland (FIRNS). A Community of Practice (CoP) is an essential element of FIRNS and NatureScot is looking for a supplier, possibly as a consortium, of services to establish and support the CoP and to contribute to evaluation of FIRNS as a programme. The concept of the CoP is summarised in Section 3.1. The scope of the services requested includes: a. Facilitate the CoP, with advice from NatureScot and NHLF b. Collect, analyse and present the experience and learning of CoP participants in a series of topic papers and a set of case studies. This reflective learning, will be important material for FIRNS’ evaluation which will be carried out in-house in 2025/26 c. Manage the sharing of knowledge beyond the CoP e.g. with the Scottish Nature Finance Pioneers, the Ecosystems Knowledge Network, the Green Finance Initiative and the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund Lot 1: NatureScot along with the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF), and on behalf of Scottish Government, is running the Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland (FIRNS). A Community of Practice (CoP) is an essential element of FIRNS and NatureScot is looking for a supplier, possibly as a consortium, of services to establish and support the CoP and to contribute to evaluation of FIRNS as a programme. The concept of the CoP is summarised in Section 3.1. The scope of the services requested includes: a. Facilitate the CoP, with advice from NatureScot and NHLF b. Collect, analyse and present the experience and learning of CoP participants in a series of topic papers and a set of case studies. This reflective learning, will be important material for FIRNS’ evaluation which will be carried out in-house in 2025/26 c. Manage the sharing of knowledge beyond the CoP e.g. with the Scottish Nature Finance Pioneers, the Ecosystems Knowledge Network, the Green Finance Initiative and the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund