The open standards for the practice of conservation

The Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (Conservation Standards) help teams be systematic about planning, implementing, and monitoring their conservation initiatives and ultimately adapt and improve their efforts. The homepage contains a wealth of resources for every step of the process.

Miradi

Miradi is a user-friendly project management software that allows conservation practitioners to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their projects to more effectively meet their conservation goals, following a process laid out in the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

The conservation measures partnership

The Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) is a partnership o that seeks better ways to design, manage, and measure the impacts of their conservation actions.

Handy for conservation planners can be the Conservation Actions and Measures Library - an open source library of results chains for the most common conservation strategies that can provide a basis for projects to develop their project specific program logic.

Conservation Coaches Network

The Conservation Coaches Network aims to improve conservation by creating a community of practice among conservationists and empowering people to develop, implement, evaluate, adapt and share effective strategies that achieve tangible conservation results benefiting both people and nature all over the world.

Community of Practice - Indigenous CS Projects

The Community of Practice - Indigenous CS Projects is a community of indigenous CS practitioners and coaches working with indigenous communities on Conservation Standard projects on their traditional land- and sea country. You can find here resources and tools supporting the steps of the planning process that have proven well in an indigenous community setting.

Foundations of Success

FOS mission is to amplify the collective impact of the global conservation community by providing practitioners with the skills and tools needed to be more effective and efficient in their efforts to foster thriving ecosystems, conserve natural resources, and advance human well-being. On their homepage you can find a wide range of guidance documents, tools and scholarly articles.

AudubOn Tools of Engagement

The Tools of Engagement planning guide was developed by Audubon, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Environmental Education and Training Partnership, and TogetherGreen. The toolkit is based on the Open Standards and gives many helpful facilitation techniques.

RARE / Behavioral Insights Team

This behavioral science toolkit for practitioners is a great resource for every conservation planner that has to include behavioral change strategies in the conservation planning process.

CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP CENTER

To achieve impact, partnerships become central to conservation practice today. This site provides guidance, tools, best practices and other resources to help you and your organization enter into and maintain healthy, effective and productive partnerships.