Biodiversity and Climate Change Training
ABCG Career Opportunities: October 2018
Exciting career opportunities: AWF, WCS, IUCN and others now hiring!
Biodiversity Integration in Practice: A Case Study of USAID in Mozambique
This case study illustrates the approach and process used by USAID’s Mozambique mission to integrate its biodiversity, education, food security and nutrition, and health sectors through the Integrated Gorongosa and Buffer Zone (IGBZ) project. Using an integrated approach in the…
Wildlife TRAPS: Revised Monitoring Framework and Midterm Performance Assessment
Wildlife Trafficking Response, Assessment, and Priority Setting (Wildlife TRAPS) was launched in 2013 and is implemented by TRAFFIC, IUCN’s strategic partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Wildlife TRAPS seeks to increase recognition by authorities and multi-sectoral stakeholders that wildlife trafficking…
Integrating Food Security and Wild Caught Fisheries Management in USAID Programming
Integrating Food Security and Wild Caught Fisheries Management in USAID Programming is an illustrative case example that demonstrates how two adaptive management programming tools—situation models and results chains—can help USAID staff and its partners to better design and implement activities…
Five Facts About Wild-Caught Fisheries & African Development
Infographic about Wild-Caught Fisheries & African Development
USAID's Food For Peace Explores the Role of Wild-Caught Fisheries
USAID’s Office of Food For Peace and Office of Forestry and Biodiversity jointly organized a workshop to review the importance and contributions of wild-caught fisheries and to discuss the opportunities and challenges for addressing wild-caught fisheries management through Food For…
Career Opportunities: Head of conservation division and management positions now available!
TNC, WWF, ZSL, BirdLife and others hiring: Apply for these positions today to contribute to wildlife management.
Integrating Ecosystem Values into Cost-Benefit Analysis: Recommendations for USAID and Practitioners
This document provides recommendations for the incorporation of ecosystem service valuations into Agency cost-benefit analysis (CBA) across sectors, both for USAID staff that produce or use CBAs and for USAID as an institution. In addition, this document provides specific guidance…
Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity Annual Report 2017
In 2017, PCAB activities covered an area of 56 million hectares, providing direct economic benefits to more than 4,000 people and indirectly benefiting thousands. In the coming years, we would like to expand this partner network even further and increase…
Biodiversity Integration in Practice: A Case Study of USAID in Western Honduras
This case study illustrates the approach and process used by USAID's Honduras mission to integrate its biodiversity, education, food security and nutrition, and governance sectors. In Honduras, improved conservation and management of natural resources, particularly water, has increased understanding across…
Evidence Summary: Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Coastal Populations
This evidence summary highlights ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches that can help coastal populations build resilience to climate change, including the establishment and management of protected areas, effective coastal land use planning, ecosystem restoration, sustainable fisheries management and the use of…
Start-Up Guidance for USAID Biodiversity Activities: Process Overview
Start-Up Guidance for USAID Biodiversity Activities: Process Overview describes the main steps to initiate a new biodiversity or integrated activity, including a theory of change workshop. This short guide explains the core tasks and provides important tips and considerations for…
Tips for USAID Biodiversity Activity Start-Up (Steps 3-5)
Tips for USAID Biodiversity Activity Start-Up (Steps 3-5) provides recommendations for developing theory of change-based activity work plans and monitoring, evaluation, and learning plans using results chains during activity start-up. It also includes some recommendations on how to enhance the…
ABCG-Exciting Career Opportunities: Programme manager and coordinator postions now available!
WRI: Director, Africa Energy Access | WWF: Africa Energy Programme Coordinator; Conservation Programs Manager | Jane Goodall Institute: Behavior Change Campaign Manager | African Wildlife Foundation: Program Design Officer | Conservation International: Senior Director of Conservation, Africa | BirdLife International:…
New Resources on Conservation Enterprises
USAID's Office of Forestry and Biodiversity is excited to announce the release of "The Nature of Conservation Enterprises: A 20-year retrospective evaluation of the theory of change behind this widely used approach to biodiversity conservation." This rare look-back at conservation…
Virtual Fisheries Academy
Environmental Defense Fund’s Virtual Fisheries Academy is an online learning center with free, interactive e-courses on fishery management topics. Current courses cover three topics: Introduction to Fisheries Management, Territorial Use Rights for Fishing, and Data-Limited Fisheries Management. The Virtual Fisheries…
Report: The Nature of Conservation Enterprises: A 20-year retrospective evaluation of the theory of change behind this widely used approach to biodiversity conservation
USAID’s “The Nature of Conservation Enterprises: A 20-year retrospective evaluation of the theory of change behind this widely used approach to biodiversity conservation” uses a theory of change to examine the assumptions and draw lesson learned on the conditions needed…
Americans with Disabilities Act Compliant Version of Acting on the Evidence
Download this file for an accessible version of Acting on the Evidence, the interactive learning resource for Evidence in Action.