Tools of Engagement: A Toolkit for Engaging People in Conservation was developed by the National Audubon Society in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Environmental Education and Training…
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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Session Design Dos and Don’ts: Lessons learnt from CCNet Rallies
This one pager summarizes lessons we have collectively learned to design better sessions at our biennial CCNet Rallies.
Self-paced Open Standards Introductory Online Course (2012)
This introductory Open Standards online training is available here, on Conserationtraining.org Key questions facing all conservation practitioners and organizations are: “What actions are needed to achieve our conservation goals?” and...
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…
Brief Overview of the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation
This is a basic one page description of the Open Standards.
Self-paced online How-To-Guide 2: Using Results to Depict Theories of Change in USAID Biodiversity Programming
Through the use interactive diagrams and short videos this interactive online platform walks users through the process of developing results chains to depict biodiversity conservation theories of change within the...
Self-paced online How-To-Guide 1: Developing Situation Models in USAID Biodiversity Programming
Through the use of diagrams and short videos this interactive online platform walks users through the basic components of a situation model and how it is developed within the context...
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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The Conservation Standards is the product of inputs, field tests, and discussions among members of the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP), which has final editorial authority over the Conservation Standards. Substantial input was also provided by members of the Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet) and other CMP partners.
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John Morrison - CCNet Global Coordinator john.morrison@wwfus.org
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