BSP programs: Analysis and Adaptive Management

Mayor Que La Suma De Sus Partes: Disenando Programas de Conservacion y Desarrollo para Maximizar Resultados y Apredizaje — by N. Salafsky — last modified 2007-07-07 21:46

82 Esta guia practica, destinada a ayudar a los administradores de programas de conservacion y desarrollo y a los donantes, reflexiona sobre la forma en que los principios del manejo adaptable pueden maximizar los resultados y el aprendizaje. Date: 2001 Authors: N. Salafsky, R. Margoluis. Program: Analysis and Adaptive Management

Lessons From The Field: Who Should Be Making Decisions? — by Corrine Schmidt — last modified 2007-07-07 21:46

101 Across the world, institutions at many levels from communities to central governments are responsible for the management of natural resources. Many conservation professionals and organizations assume that a decentralized approach, in which the authority to manage natural resources resides in the hands of local people, is the best way to go. This is an assumption not fully tested, and yet it is one that is critical to understand if we are to effectively achieve conservation. In one of our analytical studies, BSP explored decentralization across 6 case studies and published Shifting the Power: Decentralization and Biodiversity Conservation. Based on this study, we looked across BSP's portfolio of projects to examine the results of decentralization processes to produce this issue of ""Lessons from the Field."" Date: 2000. Authors: Corrine Schmidt. Programs: Analysis and Adaptive Management

Lessons From The Field: How Can We Work Together? — by C. Margoluis — last modified 2007-07-07 21:48

102 As the complexity of conservation has become increasingly apparent to those working in the field, the conservation community has come to realize that it cannot work in isolation. Conservation must fully embrace and include people and institutions whose existence is dependent on the conservation of natural resources, and it must build bridges to other fields in order to reach conservation goals. As part of its research into the role of NGOs in conservation, BSP published ""In Good Company: Effective Alliances for Conservation."" This issue of ""Lessons from the Field"" uses the results of this publication to examine BSP experience in creating and supporting alliances around the world. date: 2000. Authors: C. Margoluis, R. Margoluis, K. Brandon, N. Salafsky. Program: Analysis and Adaptive Management

Is Our Project Succeeding: A Guide to Threat Reduction Assessment for Conservation — by Richard Margoluis — last modified 2007-07-07 20:30

Measuring Project Success 2 Like any other project, conservation projects are designed to change something, to have an impact on some state or condition. The main goal of this change is to protect biodiversity. One of the major differences we see between conservation projects and other projects, however, is that it is often difficult to define—in clear, operational terms—precisely what it is that conservation projects are trying to achieve. In a business setting, the project goal is usually financial profit and it is usually pretty easy to evaluate how much money a company is making or losing. For a health project, it is relatively easy to measure the health status of a particular population and to track changes over time to measure the success of a given intervention. But for conservation projects, what practical and meaningful measures of project impact are available to us? ...

?Como podemos trabajar juntos? Principios para formar alianzas eficaces en la conservacion — by Cheryl Margoluis — last modified 2007-07-07 21:49

116 Adaptive management is Al irse volviendo mas aparente la complejidad de la conservacion para aquellos que trabajan en el campo, la comunidad conservacionista se ha percatado de que no puede trabajar en aislamiento. La conservacion debe incluir y acoger completamente a las personas e instituciones cuya existencia depende de la conservacion de los recursos naturales y debe construir puentes hacia otras disciplinas para lograr los objetivos de la conservacion. Como parte de su investigacion sobre la funcion de las organizaciones no gubernamentales en la conservacion, el BSP publico In Good Company: Effective Alliances for Conservation. Este ejemplar de Lecciones Aprendidas en el Campo utiliza los resultados de esa publicacion para examinar la experiencia del BSP en la creacion y apoyo de alianzas alrededor del mundo. Date: 2001. Authors: Cheryl Margoluis, Richard Margoluis, Katrina Brandon, Nick Salasky. Program: Analysis and Adaptive Management

Comment Peut-On Travailler Ensemble? — by C. Margoluis — last modified 2007-07-07 21:51

137 As the complexity of conservation has become increasingly apparent to those working in the field, the conservation community has come to realize that it cannot work in isolation. Conservation must fully embrace and include people and institutions whose existence is dependent on the conservation of natural resources, and it must build bridges to other fields in order to reach conservation goals. As part of its research into the role of NGOs in conservation, BSP published ""In Good Company: Effective Alliances for Conservation."" This issue of ""Lessons from the Field"" uses the results of this publication to examine BSP experience in creating and supporting alliances around the world. Date: 2001. Authors: C. Margoluis, R. Margoluis, K. Brandon, N. Salafsky. Program: Analysis and Adaptive Management