These tips focus on the major challenges and some remedies for facilitating a viability assessment, based on practitioner experience.
CCNet maintains a variety of resources to support Coaches in the presentation and use of the Conservation Standards. Most of the resources are found in multiple languages in the Coaches Notebook that is part of CCNet New Coach Trainings.
In addition, in our Resource Library you can find a wealth of support materials shared by Coaches and Conservation Standards practitioners. To find resources to support your coaching efforts, make sure to select the ‘I am a coach’ tab.
In our Resource Library you will find a wealth of support materials shared by Coaches and Conservation Standards practitioners from over 600 organizations across the planet over 20 years. On this website, resources are rated to provide only the best and most faithful to the Conservation Standards. To find coaching resources, make sure to select the ‘I am a coach’ tab.
Resources are broadly categorized into Guidance, Tools, Case Studies and Complementary Materials. Searching may lead you directly to resources you know exist.
The Conservation Standards Circle provides the framework for project planning, management, monitoring, adapting and sharing.
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This area is intended to hold or link to all of the resources that might be helpful to an Open Standards coach.
This section of the website is searchable, and includes all of the resources found in the organized Coaches Notebook plus a variety of other resources that are not generally included in the Notebook.
Also, don’t forget the basic Conservation Standards Guidance & Tools, and Conservation Standards Examples sections of the Conservation Standards website.
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Annotated Outline of a Planning Process Charter for Proteced Areas. Based on best practices from practitioners. Draft: December, 2008
This document can provide a point of reference for teams who are embarking in a protected area planning process, and who would like to establish their initial process expectations in…
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...
Workshop evaluation
This is a basic Open Standards workshop evaluation format.
TAM Example Session Outlines
Daily session outlines for an OS course, including learning objectives, group instructions and draft agenda for each day.
TAM Groupwork Instructions
Groupwork instructions in detail, covering each step of the OS individually.
CCNet News July 2014
Welcome to the Conservation Coaches Network’s bi-annual News. In this e-magazine conservation practitioners from around the world share their stories in their own words. In addition, you will find announcements…
Coaches Resource Library
CCNet maintains a variety of resources to support Coaches in the presentation and use of the Conservation Standards. Most of the resources are found in multiple languages in the Coaches Notebook that is part of CCNet New Coach Trainings. In addition, in our Resource Library you can find a wealth of support materials shared by Coaches and Conservation Standards practitioners.
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