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…
Here you will find excellent tools to implement the Conservation Standards including:
- standard classifications,
- spatial and planning tools
- libraries of strategies, results chains and indicators.
Resource Library
Conservation Standards Adoption – A Change Management Strategy (2021) (2022)
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…
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…
MPA Network Design and Management: Framework and Guidance (2021) (2022)
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and FOS Europe have developed a framework and a 10-step method for tackling the big challenges in marine conservation. The framework contains definitions,…
Recipes for Conservation: A Conservation Standards Toolkit (2024) (2022)
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…
CMP Cross-organisational Learning: Framing Nature-based Solutions (2021) (2021)
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is an approach to addressing environmental and development challenges through protecting, maintaining, and enhancing ecosystem services. As part of CMP's Collaborative Learning Initiatives, Australian NGO TierraMar researched…
Conservation Standards: Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Approaches (2020-2021) (2021)
Phase I of this learning initiative highlighted the need for the conservation community to continue learning about how to incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) principles into their conservation…
Population, Health and Environment (PHE): An Integrated Approach to Conservation (2021) ()
The purpose of the PHE Learning Initiative was to improve CMP's and, more broadly, the conservation sector's understanding of PHE and its value to biodiversity conservation, to identify barriers that…
Factsheets: Situation Models and Results Chains (2021) (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…
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The Conservation Standards is the product of inputs, field tests, and discussions among members of the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP), which has final editorial authority over the Conservation Standards. Substantial input was also provided by members of the Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet) and other CMP partners.
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The biodiversity conservation community is tackling large, complex, and urgent environmental problems where the stakes are high. However, we don’t have a fully functional system to assess the effectiveness of our actions. Without more rigorous measurement of effectiveness and disciplined recording of our efforts, we cannot know or demonstrate that we are achieving desired results.
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