Beyond 2025 Steering Committee

Stakeholder and Public Engagement

Steering Committee co-chairs have proposed a strategy to enable broader stakeholder participation and public engagement in the Beyond 2025 activities. The proposal was informed by feedback received during one-on-one member meetings and from the NGO community, and released to the Management Board on August 7. The proposal is awaiting additional feedback before it is amended and presented for Management Board approval.

• Beyond 2025 Steering Committee Proposal for August 10 Management Board Meeting [PDF, 276.6 KB]

ERG Evaluation Plan

This evaluation plan provides details on the approach ERG will take in answering evaluation questions that were developed for the Beyond 2025 effort to address the Executive Council (EC) charges. This document covers only those questions where ERG has been identified as the lead. The plan summary includes an overview of the process used in developing questions, descriptions of purpose and justification, relevant definitions, methodology and a timeline for project products.”

• Chesapeake Bay Program Evaluation Plan FINAL 10 04 23 [PDF, 853.1 KB]

Evaluation Reference Materials (Reviewed by Evaluation Contractor, ERG)

The following list includes materials (e.g., CBP partnership publications, peer-reviewed technical documents, white papers, meeting and workshop products) that have been shared and reviewed by Beyond 2025’s contracting support, Eastern Research Group (ERG).

Material Title (Author(s), Affiliation, Publication Date)

• Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement (Chesapeake Bay Program Partners, 2014)
• Chesapeake 2000 (Chesapeake Bay Program Partners, 2000)
• Governance and Management Framework for the Chesapeake Bay Program – Version 5.0 (Chesapeake Bay Program Partners, 2022)
• Achieving Water Quality Goals in the Chesapeake Bay: A Comprehensive Evaluation of System Response (Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee Publication 23-006, 2023)
• Charting a Course to 2025: A Report and Recommendations for the Chesapeake Executive Council on How to Best Address and Integrate New Science and Restoration Strategies Leading up to 2025 (Draft) (Chesapeake Bay Program, 2023)
• Rising Watershed and Bay Water Temperatures: Ecological Implications and Management Responses (Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee Publication 23-001, 2023)
• Enhancing the Chesapeake Bay Program Monitoring Networks: A Report to the Principals’ Staff Committee (Chesapeake Bay Program, 2022)
• Chesapeake Governance Study: Report of 2021 Decision-Maker Interview Results (D.G. Webster, Dartmouth College, 2023)
• Recognizing political influences in participatory social-ecological systems modeling (Lim, T. C., Glynn, P. D., Shenk, G. W., Bitterman, P., Guillaume, J. H. A., Little, J. C., & Webster, D. G., Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, 2023)
• Enhancing Chesapeake Bay Partnership Activities by Integrating Social Science (Wainger, L. et al., University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 2023)
• Retrospective on Lessons Learned from the Chesapeake Bay Program Strategy Review System’s 3rd Cycle with Suggested Adaptations to Address the Issues (Chesapeake Bay Program, 2023)
• Café Summaries and Report Products from Chesapeake Bay Program Strategy Review System’s 3rd Cycle Biennial Meeting (Chesapeake Bay Program, 2023)
• Using Ecosystem Services to Increase Progress Toward, and Quantify the Benefits of, Multiple CBP Outcomes: Day 1 Workshop and Day 2 Workshop (Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, 2023)
• Linking Soil and Watershed Health to In-Field and Edge-of-Field Water Management (Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, 2020)
• Using Local Monitoring Results to Inform the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Watershed Model (Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, 2023)
• Advancing Monitoring Approaches to Enhance Tidal Chesapeake Bay Habitat Assessment (Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee): Session 1: SAV (2021), Session 2: Chlorophyll a (2022), and Session 3: Dissolved Oxygen (2022)

Small Group Materials

• Clean Water Recommendation Set One Pagers 03 20 24 final [PDF, 224.2 KB]
• Climate Recommendation Set One Pagers 03 20 24 [PDF, 209.2 KB]
• Supplemental Information for Climate Small Group Recommendations 2 27 24 [PDF, 262.4 KB]
• Healthy Watersheds Recommendation Set One Pagers 03 20 24 [PDF, 254.6 KB]
• HW Vanguard Approach [PDF, 124.7 KB]
• B25 HW Recommendations Narrative for Symposium 2 28 24 [PDF, 162.5 KB]
• People Recommendation Set One Pagers 03 20 24 [PDF, 144.0 KB]
• People One Pagers Extended Version [PDF, 402.2 KB]
• Beyond 2025 People Small Group Recomendations and Narratives [PDF, 152.7 KB]
• Shallow Water Habitats Team Recommendation Set One Pagers 03 20 24 [PDF, 228.8 KB]
• SWHT Recommendations Report [PDF, 606.9 KB]