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Outdoor Recreation Planning and Management Guide 2023

Outdoor recreation planning & management in protected areas using the Conservation Standards is a product of collaboration between experts from protected area management authorities in Sweden and FOS Europe. The…

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...

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....

Climate-Smart Conservation Practice Case Studies (2021)

Over the last few years, as the CMP Climate Guidance Working Group has developed Climate-Smart Conservation Practice, a few organizations in the Conservation Standards community have applied different parts of...

Recipes for Conservation: A Conservation Standards Toolkit (2024)

This draft "Toolkit" provides a series of "recipes" for "lighter" Conservation Standards (CS) approaches to different scenarios that teams typically encounter. The recipes link to tip sheets that offer practical ideas...

Factsheets: Situation Models and Results Chains (2021)

These factsheets are intended to provide a high-level summary of what situation models / results chains are, how they are developed and how to read them. The target audience is...

Standardized Classification of Threats to Biodiversity: Definitions for Quebec’s Conservation Data Centre (CDC) v1.0 (2021)

Collaboratively developed by partners from Quebec, Canada and beyond, this resource builds off of CMP’s threats classification to provide a more detailed, third-level classification, and will provide several benefits :…

Global Environment & Development Agendas: An Integrated Strategy for Conservation (2020)

This report, a product of CMP’s Collaborative Learning Initiative, provides an overview of Global Environment and Development Agendas: Strategies for Conservation. It includes the defining characteristics of this strategy, a…

Does the Use of the Conservation Standards Result in Proposal Funding Success? (Making the Business Case for the Conservation Standards) (2020)

This report, a product of CMP’s Collaborative Learning Initiative, represents the first comprehensive attempt to systematically and rigorously assess the effects of the CS on funding success. Nonetheless, we faced…

Climate-Smart Conservation Practice (2020)

This guidance is intended to support practitioners undertaking conservation planning in the face of the uncertainties created by climate change. It builds on the already widely used Conservation Measures Partnership’s...