6e.1. CMP Direct Threats Classification 2.0

This spreadsheet contains the latest version of the Conservation Measures Partnership's (CMP) Conservation Direct Threats Classification, updated in 2016. This classification is designed to provide a simple, hiearchical, comprehensive, consistent,...

Guidance on Applying the Conservation Standards to Ecosystem-based Adaptation

Story from Marcia Brown (FOS/CCNet Global), John Morrison (WWF/CCNet Global), Tobias Garstecki (Independent Consultant), Adrienne Marvin (FOS), Nicolas Boenisch (FOS Europe/CCNet Europe)  A Conservation Measures Partnership working group, which includes representatives from Foundations of Success and World Wildlife Fund, recently had the opportunity to work with...

Healthy Country Planning

Healthy Country Planning (HCP) is an adaptation of the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation, which draws on the collective experience of adaptive managers and robust strategic planning approaches...

Healthy Country Planning – tools to support the process

These tools to support a Healthy Country Planning process were updated in September 2020 by Frank Weisenberger. A special thanks to Nathalie Holland, Stuart Cowell, Andre Grant, Luke Preece and David...

Healthy Country Planning Brochure – March 2019

This is a two-page summary on Healthy Country Planning. Healthy Country Planning (HCP) is an adaptation of the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation, which draws on the collective…

Healthy Country Planning Resources

Healthy Country Planning (HCP) is an adaptation of the Conservation Standards developed for use in participative and cross-cultural situations – typically with Indigenous communities. To better enable this, the language...

Healthy Country Planning: Self-Assessment Tool

This is a tool for the use of teams to check their progress in the development and implementation of their conservation or Healthy Country Plans. The tool is based on the CAP...

Incorporating Social Aspects and Human Wellbeing in Biodiversity Conservation Projects – v. 2.0 (July 2016)

Members of the Conservation Measures Partnership's Human Wellbeing Working Group are pleased to share an update version of CMP’s human wellbeing guidance! This update is based on 3.5 years of...

Protected area management planning in Latin America: A handbook based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation

This handbook (in Spanish) can be consulted here online and can also be downloaded onto a computer. It offers a series of practical tools and seeks to empower those who manage...

Thinking and Working Politically When Practicing the Conservation Standards at USAID

Story from Kelsey Schueler (Environmental Incentives), Heidi Schuttenberg (USAID) and Jeff Stark.    USAID has developed a new resource with practical advice for thinking and working politically when practicing the Conservation Standards in USAID work. Given strong evidence that political factors...