Once the conservation situation and the team’s role in it are well resolved (Step 1), we move to developing plans: actions, monitoring and operations (Step 2).
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 plan, with consideration of methods. Also included here are breakout…
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 change. It uses shooting jaguars to protect cattle as an…
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 vetted as excellent, but does contain some confusion about whether…
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 points. Also included here is the breakout instructions for this…
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 chain to monitoring plan, it is a very good resource. …
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 boxes are confusing and the ideas are better expressed in…
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 linkages between people and nature, 2) design interventions focused on…