Would you like more information about how to conduct institutional assessments?
Institutional Self-Assessment: A Tool for Strengthening Nonprofit Organizations
By R. Devine, A. Hitz-Sanchez, J. Keenan, P. Leon, P. MacLeod, B. McGean, B. Moffat, S. Rust, © 2001 The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
This tool assists organizations in determining their current level of development based on eight core institutional areas. The core areas are: strategic vision and planning; leadership; organizational management; human resources; resource development; financial management; constituency building and outreach; and programmatic capacity. This self-analysis becomes the starting point for intentional organizational improvement initiatives.
English (30 pages, PDF, 134 KB)
Español (31 páginas, PDF, 144 KB)
Excerpts: From the Roots Up: Strengthening Organizational Capacity through Guided Self-Assessment
By Peter Gubbels and Catheryn Koss, 2000, World Neighbors
This manual seeks to strengthen organizational capacity by providing tools and methods for self-assessment. It explains key areas for organizational capacity building, including: representative decision making; communication systems; collaboration with other groups; negotiation for services; identification and prioritization of problems; implementation of activities; lobbying for local interests; clarity of vision and purpose; systems for raising revenue; mobilizing human capital; and monitoring and evaluation.
English (47 pages, PDF, 3.39 MB)
Institutional Assessment of Mexican NGOs
By Russell Davenport, 1995, Environmental Education and Communication (GreenCOM) Project, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
In Mexico, the Environmental Education and Communication (GreenCOM) Project conducted a rapid assessment of 14 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working on natural resource management projects. This report identifies factors inhibiting talented professionals from being as effective as possible in developing and implementing environmentally-positive methods of resource management. These factors are divided into four complementary areas: environmental education and communication, institutional issues, gender considerations, and training needs.
English (123 pages, PDF, 406 KB)
Would you like to read more about how to build effective alliances for conservation?
In Good Company: Effective Alliances for Conservation
By Richard Margoluis, Cheryl Hochman, Katrina Brandon, and Nick Salafsky, © 2000 Biodiversity Support Program (BSP)
Conservation organizations have sought strategic partnerships to help achieve conservation goals. But what are the most strategic relationships we can build to achieve conservation? What are the most efficient ways of working together across the spectrum of organizations and institutions involved in conservation? What makes for the most effective alliances in conservation? These are the questions that the conservation community must address in order to meet the challenges that we presently face.
English (52 pages, PDF, 1.56 MB)
Lessons From The Field: How Can We Work Together?
By C. Margoluis, R. Margoluis, K. Brandon, N. Salafsky, © 2000 Biodiversity Support Program (BSP)
As part of its research into the role of non-governmental organizations 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 Biodiversity Support Program's experiences in creating and supporting alliances for conservation around the world.
English ( 8 pages, PDF, 1.02 MB)
Español (8 páginas, PDF, 250 KB)
Français (8 pages, PDF, 222 KB)
Would you like to become better at strategic planning?
Integrated Strategic and Financial Planning for Nongovernmental Organizations
By Paige MacLeod, Patricia Leon, and Pedro Esquivias, © 2001, The Nature Conservancy (TNC).
This manual is designed as a self-paced tool for nonprofit organizations interested in developing integrated strategic and financial plans. This manual will assist organizations in: articulating organizational goals, objectives and activities; prioritizing activities; identifying implementation costs; estimating annual administrative costs; identifying potential funding gaps or surpluses; identifying fund-raising goals; and validating the feasibility plan implementation.
English (65 pages, PDF, 608 KB)
Español (60 páginas, PDF, 858 KB)
Would you like to learn more about monitoring and evaluation?
Principles in Practice: Staff Observations of Conservation Projects in Africa
By Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu, Souleymane Zeba, Deo-Gratias Mboje Gamassa, and Leonie Bonnehin, © 2000 Biodiversity Support Program (BSP)
This book, a culmination of the Biodiversity Support Program's Biodiversity Monitoring and Evaluation (BIOME) project, uses analyses of 11 conservation projects in Africa and Madagascar to illustrate eight biodiversity conservation principles, as identified and observed by African conservation project staff.
English (89 pages, PDF, 2.02 MB)
Français (88 pages, PDF, 1.93 MB)
The Common Methodology for Learning: A Manual for Assessing Progress in Coastal Management
By Stephen B. Olsen, Kem Lowry, James Tobey, 1999, Center for Coastal Resources, University of Rhode Island (CRC/URI)
This manual is an effort to develop and make accessible approaches to assess progress towards coastal management goals and learn from experience. It offers an evaluative framework to document trends, identify their likely causes and objectively estimate the relative contributions of integrated coastal management programs to observe social and environmental behavior.
English (61 pages, PDF, 335 KB)
Would you like more information about training conservation practitioners?
What's Your Role? Training for Organisational Impact: A Guide for Training Officers in Protected Area Management
By Ralph Stone, © 1997 Biodiversity Support Program (BSP)
This handbook is designed to help natural resource training officers develop training programs that are systematic, needs-based, and broad-reaching to enable staff to achieve optimum job performance and, consequently, greater conservation impact.
English (91 pages, PDF, 9.36 MB)
Français (150 pages, PDF, 18.02 MB) [../docs/8capbuild/8-2-B.pdf] MISSING
Training Trainers for Development: Conducting a Workshop on Participatory Training Techniques
By Center for Development and Population Activities (CDPA), 1995
The manual is intended for use by trainers of governmental and non-governmental organizations working in development. It teaches interactive, learner-centered methods, in an approach which is based on the research of human resource development experts. This manual is based on the premises that adults generally assimilate only what they find useful and that they want to be able to apply their new knowledge and skills.
English (93 pages, PDF, 183 KB)
Would you like more information about advocacy and media campaigns?
Advocacy: Creating a Programme for Change
From Activist Training Manual, Environmental Justice Foundation
This chapter of the Activist Training Manual provides information on ways and means to create an effective advocacy program. It seeks to provide a framework to develop advocacy skills and strategies, and highlight useful techniques and tools.
English (22 pages, PDF, 188 KB)
Media: Creating an Effective Media Campaign
From Activist Training Manual, Environmental Justice Foundation
This chapter of the Activist Training Manual provides information about why the media is so important to advocacy and how to work with different media. It covers the steps of creating an effective media strategy, including: building a relationship with the media; grabbing the headlines; creating press releases and press conferences; and video news releases.
English (10 pages, PDF, 160 KB)
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