Conservation Measures Partnership

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Conservation Measures Partnership

• Venue, Date

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Who we are

• Core Members
• AWF, CI, TNC, WCS, WWF
• Collaborating Members
• EWW, FOS (CMP facilitator)
• new member WCPA/IUCN

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Why the partnership formed

• Prove our effectiveness
• Learn faster
• Adopt best-practices
• Make conservation more efficient
• Avoiding duplication of effort

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How the partnership formed

• Needs-driven
• Organic
• Committed individuals
• Common interests
• International conservation NGOs
• Inclusive, but focused

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Our vision

• Transform the practice of conservation by
  developing, testing and sharing tools to credibly
  assess and improve the effectiveness of
  conservation investments

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Our approach

• Develop common standards
• strategic planning and management processes
• conservation impact and state assessment
• Develop new tools
• credible conservation audits
• activity-based cost accounting

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Our products

• Conservation rosetta stone
• Standards for the practice of conservation
• Credible conservation audits
• Measurements of conservation status
• Should this be split into status indicators,
  and impact/effectiveness measures how is the
  latter different from bullet 2.
• Activity-based cost accounting

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Conservation Rosetta stone

• a multi-NGO lexicon for describing the practice
  of conservation
• a foundation for a common language of conservation

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Standards for the practice of conservation

• Conceptual, logic, and situation models
• direct and indirect threats assessment
• management planning
• monitoring strategies
• implementation and impact evaluation

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Conservation status indicators

• Taking the pulse of the planet
• Measures that are scalable from the landscape up

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Credible conservation audits

• improve site-based conservation
• promote adoption of best practices
• speed up learning (site institutions)
• prove effectiveness

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Activity-based cost accounting

• tracking spending on what matters - threats
  abatement and monitoring
• a lynchpin for setting priorities and allocating
  resource

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Why CMP membership matters?

• Capitalizes on collective experience
• Pools lessons from ongoing projects
• Achieves economies of scale
• Avoids duplication of effort
• Promotes rapid diffusion
• Provides support for internal reforms

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CMP - More than the sum of its parts

• De-Balkanization of NGO knowledge
• Credible audit process
• Global influence
• Transparent reporting of success and failures
• Common tools and standards

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Relevance to foundations

• Help create a common language across grantees
• Develop standards for the practice of
  conservation
• Provide measurement standards for assessing the
  state of conservation
• Develop a mechanism for independent monitoring
  and active learning
• Provide guidelines for cost-effective
  decision-making

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Next steps

• A brief timeline
• Field testing products
• Future membership
• Financing
• Working with donors (???)
• Etc

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For more information .

• www.ConservationMeasures.org