Intervention plans are a way of planning a related set of interventions in a time-bound, and possibly location specific, context.
The plan contains:
- Explain why intervention is necessary - Describe the location of the intervention, add maps as required. What is the current status quo for this area/habitat/species? What events led to things becoming degraded? Are there any ongoing threats? What would happen without any intervention?
- Evidence review(s) - a flexible framework to gather, assess and synthesise evidence that is relevant for the intervention(s). It's called evidence review rather than literature review to emphasise that evidence is varied and might not just come from the literature
- Describe and justify the method(s) chosen - of everything mentioned in the review(s), which method(s) will you be using for this intervention and why? Go into detail to quantify the scale of what you’ll be doing as part of the plan e.g. how many trees? what size area will you be working on? etc.
- Provide any step-by-step methods - step by step guide of how you will undertake the intervention. This should be clear enough that when looking back in the future you can see how exactly it was undertaken.
- Risks - These are risks to successful implementation of the plan and it’s long term outcomes. This helps check the overall risk of the intervention. Examples: delays to implementation lack of permissions budget changes uncertainty around effectiveness failure of the intervention to see the desired change
- Sensitive or controversial considerations - Add anything that could be considered sensitive or controversial. Examples include changes to areas of cultural significance, lethal control of invasive species or inadvertent negative consequences
You can read more about how this plan fits within the wider plan system here.