Semi-structured interview framework from: Growing together: Strengthening the partnership and impact of a zoo and community-led conservation organization

Indigenous peoples and local communities play a pivotal role in addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. The South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO) is a community-driven organization, representing 30 Indigenous Maasai communities in Kenya, which cultivates resources to support communal landscape management. The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (CZBG) is an Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)-accredited zoological facility and has partnered with SORALO since its inception in 2006. This study evaluates the strengths and challenges of the SORALO-CZBG partnership using the PARTNERS framework and examines its alignment with the Naivasha Vision—principles established by African conservation leaders in 2023 at the African Community Conservation Forum. We conducted eight semi-structured interviews with SORALO and CZBG staff (four from each organization) and analyzed them through thematic analysis and constant comparative methodology. The analysis shows the PARTNERS frame..., , # Semi-structured interview framework from: Growing together: Strengthening the partnership and impact of a zoo and community-led conservation organization

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.mcvdnckf0](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mcvdnckf0)

We have submitted our semi-structured interview guide that acted as a deductive framework for our interviews, aligning with the PARTNERS framework and following Mishra et al. (2017). This guide also acted as the central note-taking location, as it was copied prior to each of the eight interviews and filled out by the note-taker for each interview.

## Description of the data and file structure

This data shows the interview guide and note-taking location utilized for the 1-hour, individual semi-structured interviews. It acted as a deductive framework for these interviews, and the interview data collected were later analyzed through thematic analysis and the constant comparative method.

####  Interview_framework.csv

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