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Start-Up Guidance for USAID Biodiversity Activities: Process Overview (2016)

Start-Up Guidance for USAID Biodiversity Activities: Process Overview describes the main steps to initiate a new biodiversity or integrated activity, including a theory of change workshop. This short guide explains...

Pause and Reflect Toolkit (2023)

The Pause and Reflect Toolkit provides facilitators with a centralized collection of resources, enabling them to find everything they need to lead and support a pause and reflect process. These...

Good Practices Guide for Pause and Reflect (2023)

The “Good Practices for Pause and Reflect in the Activity Cycle” presents a framework for group-based activity-level pause and reflect processes to inform activity learning and annual work planning. The...

Guidance Document: Alignment Between the Conservation Standards and Corporate ESG Frameworks

For over 20 years, organizations worldwide have been using and collaboratively developing a common language and set of guidelines and tools to address diverse conservation problems through the Conservation Standards...

Nature-based Solutions Learning Initiative 2022 Final Report

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is an expanding field of study focused on how the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of ecosystems can address socio-environmental problems, such as invasive species and climate...

Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands

In April 2016, a two day workshop to introduce the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation to the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative (ABSI) was run...

Parks Canada Conservation Standards Modules

Parks Canada developed these modules to provide staff accessible, self-paced training materials for Steps 1 (Assess) and 2 (Plan) of the Conservation Standards, as well as a set of reference materials....

Does External Financing Influence National Commitments to Biodiversity Conservation? (2020)

The conservation community has committed technical and financial assistance to low- and middle-income country (LMIC) governments to support the management costs associated with protected areas (PAs) as a means of...

Conservation Standards Adoption – A Change Management Strategy (2021)

An expected result of CMP's 2017-22 Strategic plan is that "Key Organizations Try & Adopt good conservation practices", which involves having key individuals successfully pilot the Conservation Standards (CS) within...

Conservation Standards Effectiveness and Impact Learning Initiative (2021)

Although there is a broad assumption that using an adaptive management framework in conservation leads to improved conservation efficiency, effectiveness, and impact, there is little robust and consolidated evidence supporting...