The User-Driven Model most closely represents the current arrangement of the Missions Initiative under the joint NPS-INAH Workplan for 2003-2006. Missions programs are one of four key areas addressed by the current plan. As facilitator of the workplan, IMRICO has established conservation, research, education, and promotion as priority areas around which to foster collaboration. Under this arrangement, the Missions Initiative would be directed by representatives from the NPS and INAH. Stakeholders and partners would be identified according to their potential for contributing to NPS/INAH programs in each of the four priority areas.
This arrangement would not require any significant organizational restructuring under the current workplan. Relationships among the primary cultural resource conservation agencies in both the United States and Mexico are clearly defined, ensuring stability of binational agreements. For the purposes of collaboration, the User-Driven Model promotes flexible and interdisciplinary cooperation among all partners. This structure maintains a strictly hierarchical relationship of federal agencies over other potential stakeholders.