Does the use of the Conservation Standards (CS)- an adaptive management framework- lead to more efficient, effective, and impactful conservation projects?  The purpose of this workbook and protocol is to help conservation practitioners answer this question. Since its inception, the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) has looked for ways to understand and measure how well its own members adopt, adapt and implement the Conservation Standards, and thus built an audit tool and encouraged auditing. However, CMP and its partner the Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet) recognize there are still many advances to be made in understanding how useful and effective the CS is. That is why we are focused on this question and why we are proposing ‘softly guided’ ways for projects and organizations to respond. 

Purpose 

To provide a user friendly workbook and monitoring protocol for standardized data collection that CMP organizations  and other teams can use to measure the effectiveness of projects that apply the Conservation Standards, and to embed these monitoring and assessment practices into organizational systems and processes.

Adapting to organization specific needs

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Acknowledgements 

This workbook was developed by the Conservation Standards Effectiveness & Impact Learning Initiative (2022). A special thank you to all contributors: 

Citation: Please cite this work as: CSEI. 2022. Conservation Standards Effectiveness and Impact Workbook of Indicators. Working Draft. Accessed [ADD DATE].