Description: Part of the FOS Adaptive Management course, this power-point presentation guides threat ranking, using the Swan wetlands as an example to illustrate points. It is vetted as excellent, but…
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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WWF Project & Programme Standards: Monitoring Plan (2005) ()
Description: This guidance resource supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. Although lacking in examples to illustrate the steps involved in moving from results…
WWF Project & Programme Standards: Goals, Objectives, & Activities (2006) ()
Description: This guidance resource supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. However, to be better guidance, significant updates would be required. Some featured text…
WWF Project & Programme Standards: Situation Analysis (2006) ()
Description: This guidance resource supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. This guidance is very good, but it predates consideration of human wellbeing targets…
WWF Project & Programme Standards: Threat Ranking (2007) ()
Description: This guidance resource supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. However, the coverage of stresses is a little short on examples, and it…
WWF Project & Programme Standards: Conceptual Models (2005) ()
Description: This document is intended as a guidance resource to support the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. It is a very good resource, but…
WWF Project & Programme Standards: Targets and Target Viability (2009) ()
Description: This document is intended as a guidance resource to support the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. It is a very good resource, but…
WWF Project & Programme Standards: Scope and Vision (2006) ()
Description: This guidance document supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. Some parts of the guidance are now dated. It could use better detail…
Conservation by Design 2.0 Guidance Document (V1.0) (2016) (2016)
TNC presents this guidance as an evolution in the conservation approach of the Conservancy and the Open Standards more generally. It is centered on four topics: 1) explicit consideration of…
WWF Programme Standards: Step 2 – Design (2012) (2016)
Description: This module was developed as part of an online learning experience to help WWF partners and staff learn how to apply Step 2 (Design) of WWF’s Standards for Conservation…
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