Description: This booklet was produced to facilitate the use of Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (OS) in the preparation of the 6th Regional Nature Reserve Management Plan for…
This page includes “how-to” guidance and training materials designed to help teams implement the Open Standards (e.g., training manuals and presentations). Note that we also provide a list of tools which serve as important resource but which do not provide step-by-step guidance.
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Resource Library
Target Viability Worksheet (2003) (2016)
Description: This short technical guide by the TNC to assess the viability of targets was developed to help practitioners accurately document key environmental attributes, indicators and indicator ratings because of…
Using Conceptual Models to Document a Situation Analysis (2009) (2016)
Description: This short guide was developed to help understand and use conceptual models to document a situation analysis more effectively. It predates integration of human wellbeing and climate change into…
Results Chain Guide (2007) ()
Description: This short guide was developed to help understand and use results chain more effectively. It predates integration of human wellbeing and climate change into the Open Standards. It is…
Objectives, Indicators and Monitoring Plan for Adaptive Management (2013) ()
Description: Part of the FOS Adaptive Management course, this guide covers the development of a monitoring plan in detail, starting with results chains to develop objectives, allocation of indicators and…
Objectives, Indicators and Monitoring Plan for Adaptive Management (2014) ()
Description: Part of the FOS Adaptive Management course, this guide covers how to use results chains to develop objectives, allocate indicators to them and go on to develop a monitoring…
Develop a Formal Action Plan: Results Chains (2014) ()
Description: This guide covers how to use results chains to test your assumptions of how your strategies are intended to change the situation. This is also known as theory of…
Develop a Formal Action Plan: Goals (2013) ()
Description: This guide covers the very first step in developing a formal action plan – defining goals, using the Sacramento River Basin as an example to illustrate points. It is…
Develop a Formal Action Plan: Goals and Strategies (2008) ()
Description: Part of the FOS Adaptive Management course, this guides the first step in developing a formal action plan – defining goals and strategies, using a marine example to illustrate…
Situation Analysis Using Conceptual Models (2012) (2016)
Description: Part of the FOS Adaptive Management Course, this powerpoint presentation guides how to do a situation analysis using conceptual models It uses many examples to illustrate points, is vetted…
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