Integrating EEDI throughout our activities

The IFB Programme team integrate Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EEDI) throughout our activities. This includes embedding inclusive and fair ways of working into day-to-day programme activities and interactions, scrutinising processes and providing training and support where necessary.

Principles

IFB researchers and programme team are asked to commit to upholding five EEDI principles:

  1. The IFB programme brings together people from different fields, disciplines and communities (including Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples) who share a commitment to build a nature positive future. We commit to being proactively inclusive of different perspectives and experiences and to providing opportunities for everyone to contribute in order that a nature positive future is for everyone.
  2. We work towards ensuring our mission, data and research are accessible, understandable and useable to both internal and external interested parties.
  3. We recognise that differences in opinion, experience and perspective may improve the excellence and relevance of our work and commit to being open to learning respectfully from each other.
  4. We commit to effective collaboration, including co-design of solutions and initiatives with those likely to be impacted by them and transparency of opportunity and decision-making.
  5. We are all responsible and committed to embedding these principles into our processes, showing them in our behaviours, and speaking up when things could be improved. IFB Leads will hold themselves and others accountable for role-modelling mindsets and behaviours.


EEDI milestones to date:

  • October 2023: All IFB Flagship and Theme leads participated in an “EEDI basics” webinar
  • March 2024: EEDI principles established via a collaborative workshop of IFB
  • December 2024: EEDI leads supported to identify how to uphold the EEDI principles in their activities and to define EEDI objectives
  • May 2025: Survey of prior participation in EEDI related training and workshops and desired additional training (open to all researchers involved in IFB). The survey identified “Inclusive Leadership” as a topic of interest and training gap for many across the programme.

If you have any questions about EEDI and IFB please contact the programme EEDI advisor Ellie Highwood.