Changeroo: Tools for co-creating Theories of Change
Changeroo assists organisations, programs and projects with a social mission to develop and manage high-quality Theories of Change. Its ToC Academy contains a rich suite of free resources to help you work together with stakeholders to co-create systems-oriented Theories of Change, and to present these in an interactive and engaging way.
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CONNECT: Knowledge Management and Sharing
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Conservation Coaches Network
The Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet) is a global network of trained and seasoned conservation planners and facilitators who are familiar with many aspects of CbD 2.0 either through their work at TNC or with the Open Standards for Conservation. There are a number of tools and resources available on the CCNet website that can be useful in the implementation of Conservation by Design.
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Conservation Measures Partnership
The Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) is a partnership of conservation organizations that seek better ways to design, manage, and measure the impacts of their conservation actions.
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Conservation Partnership Center
“Working with others” is a central tenet of conservation practice today. This site provides guidance, tools, best practices and other resources to help you and your organization enter into and maintain healthy, effective and productive partnerships.
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Conservation Planning: Informed Decisions for a Healthier Planet
Groves, Craig, and Edward T. Game. Conservation Planning: Informed Decisions for a Healthier Planet. Arlington: Nature Conservancy, 2015.
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Diversity and Work Group Performance
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Field Guide to Conservation in Cities in North America
A collaborative project of The Nature Conservancy and the Center for Whole Communities, this field guide shares early lessons about planning, getting programs off the ground, handling partnerships and promoting engagement in urban conservation.
Field Guide to Conservation in Cities in North America
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Highly Effective Teams
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How diversity makes us smarter
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How economic inequalities are harming societies
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Measures Demystified
Learn more about measures by taking the Measures Demystified training on ConservationTraining.org. TNC staff can learn more about measures by following the Measures Community on CONNECT.
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Need a coach?
The Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet) has a database of coaches who can help with various parts of the CbD process. It might be harder to find someone who can help with the newest elements of CbD 2.0, but many CCNet coaches can help with situation analyses, results chains and theories of change, and action planning.
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Outcome Mapping Learning Community
Outcome Mapping is an approach to planning, monitoring and evaluation that puts people at the centre, defines outcomes as changes in behaviour, and helps measure contribution to complex change processes.
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PATHWAYS TO CHANGE: 10 Theories to Inform Advocacy and Policy Change Efforts
Stachowiak, Sarah. PATHWAYS TO CHANGE: 10 Theories to Inform Advocacy and Policy Change Efforts. ORS IMPACT, Oct. 2013. Web.
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Reduce bias based on accent
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Resource Investment Optimization System
RIOS is a software tool for prioritizing investments in ecosystem services that can help to answer a critical question facing decision makers who wish to invest in ecosystem services with limited resources: Which set of investments (in which activities, and where) will yield the greatest returns toward multiple objectives?
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Sharing Hidden Stories
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Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)
SWAT is a small watershed to river basin-scale model to simulate the quality and quantity of surface and ground water and predict the environmental impact of land use, land management practices, and climate change.
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Spark Policy Institute Toolbox
The Spark Policy Institute hosts a community toolbox contributed to by experienced and cutting-edge social innovators. Twelve toolkits provide practical tools to help funders, nonprofits, business and community leaders enhance their ability to ignite social change.
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Standardized results chains for development and humanitarian outcomes.
The Outcomes and Evidence Framework (OEF) is a free interactive resource containing standardized results chains for common humanitarian and development outcomes. Created by the International Rescue Committee, many of the sample results chains in the OEF include information about possible interventions, with filters including evidence strength. Where available, indicators and cost efficiency are also provided.
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Ten steps to a results-based monitoring and evaluation system
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The Bridge Collaborative
The Bridge Collaborative unites people and organizations in health, development and the environment with the evidence and tools to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges.
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The Learning Network for Capacity Development
The Learning Network for Capacity Development provides guidance on the complex subject of assessing and addressing enabling conditions.
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The Open Standards and Collective Impact
This document relates Open Standards concepts and tools with those of the “Collective Impact” framework, which provides guidance for organisations tackling complex “adaptive” problems involving multiple partners.
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The Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (The Open Standards or OS)
The Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) manages the Open Standards, incorporating principles and best practices in adaptive management and results-based management from conservation and other fields. A variety of guidance, tools, and complementary materials are available on the OS website, in multiple languages.
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TNC’s Theory of Transformational Change project
For TNC staff, the new vision and ambition of the Shared Conservation Agenda calls on us to develop not only a theory of change but also a Theory of Transformational Change. A team at TNC is developing a Theory of Transformational Change framework and guidance. TNC staff can see that team's latest thinking here.
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Webinar on Evaluating Conservation Projects and Programs
Webinar on the why, when, and how of evaluation that can help programs of all sizes to strengthen their evaluative culture and practice.
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What do we want to know? Selecting Indicators.
Indicators specify what needs to be measured. To learn more about selecting indicators, see Mayoux, L. (2002). What do we want to know? Selecting Indicators.
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Why gender diversity matters in China
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