Programme
Working groups
Members working together, for a year at a time, on a question the profession needs to answer.
A working group has the Society’s name and is built around issues and questions relevant to the Society’s aims. It runs for 12 months and may be renewed, reports to the committee each quarter, holds at least one seminar for the Society each year, and otherwise works largely independently of the committee.
How a group starts
The usual route is a seminar that finishes with an open invitation to form a group. The group is then formed by the people who come forward, rather than chosen in advance. Anyone may propose a seminar.
If you already have the people, propose a group directly on Form WG-1. A group needs a lead, a co-lead and at least one further core member, all members of the Society and all willing before the proposal is made. Between them they should bring more than one country, sector or discipline, and at least one must have substantial experience of the SEEA. A working group is approved at a committee meeting.
Who takes part
Every working group is open to all members of the Society, and a group may invite speakers who are not members to its seminars and sessions. Members take part in their individual professional capacity, and the Society does not endorse what is said in a group or at its seminars.
The SEEA as reference point, not boundary
The Society's technical work is anchored in the SEEA while engaging constructively with related public, corporate and community sector frameworks. A group may work with any framework. Where it works to a different standard, it says which, and how it compares with the SEEA.
Possible topics
Groups could form on ecosystem accounting, water, oceans, corporate applications, valuation, data quality, or the use of accounts in policy. They should emerge from member demand rather than all being promised at the start.
Not yet a member? Join the Society. The lead, co-lead and core members of a working group must be members.