Business Alliances
Are enabling conditions in place to support a sustainable enterprise?
A Framework for Monitoring, Evaluating, and Learning from Conservation Enterprises
The Conservation Enterprise Learning Group developed a MEL framework for USAID and Implementing Partner staff to use to inform the adaptive management of their CE programs.
A Global Assessment of Community Based Natural Resources Management: Addressing the Critical Challenges of the Rural Sector
CBNRM: An assessment with recommendations for the future.
A Sourcebook for Community-Based Forestry Enterprise Programming
This Sourcebook aims to inform design and implementation of community forestry interventions that seek to deliver social, environmental, and economic outcomes in developing countries.
Alternative Sustainable Livelihoods for Coastal Communities: A Review of Experience and Guide to Best Practice
Key points in document.
Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Effective at Reducing Local Threats to Specified Elements of Biodiversity and/or Improving or Maintaining the Conservation Status of Those Elements?
Key points in this document.
Assessment of Recreational Fishery in the Galapagos Marine Reserve: Failures and Opportunities
This research aims to explore the Galapagos Marine Reserve governance by following the governability assessment framework, which is based on the interactive governance perspective.
Beyond Fishing? The Impact of Microcredit on Alternative Livelihoods in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Examines the connections between coral reef conservation, microcredit, and sustainable fisheries livelihood development.
Beyond Nature Appropriation: Towards Post-Development Conservation in the Maya Forest
Key points in document.
Building a Conservation Enterprise: Keys for Success
"Building a Conservation Enterprise: Keys for Success” is a summary of the guidance from key resource documents on the enabling conditions that support a sustainable enterprise.
Case Studies: Bundling Agricultural Products with Ecosystem Services
This paper examines how bundling of ecosystem services into agricultural products (BESAP) markets are actually being set up on the ground, drawing lessons learned from six cases in Africa and Latin America.
Community-Based Forest Enterprises: Their Status and Potential in Tropical Countries
Key points in document.
Community-based Natural Resource Management and Poverty Alleviation in Namibia: A Case Study
Through community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), Namibians who form conservancies now have legal rights to manage wildlife and benefit from tourism.
Community-Based Tree and Forest Product Enterprises: Market Analysis and Development
The manual defines the Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) process, and provides planners with the information necessary to prepare for and to implement the MA&D process with respect to community-based enterprise development.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2022 : Using a Theory of Change to Learn Across Conservation Enterprises Posters
From May to August 2022, seven activity teams, including USAID staff and implementing partners, from five Missions around the globe joined the second round of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab to share with each other their successes and challenges in implementing conservation enterprises.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2024: Harnessing a Theory of Change for Effective Conservation Enterprise Strategies Posters
From May to September 2024, nine activity teams—including USAID staff and implementing partners—from seven countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia participated in the fourth iteration of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2022: Using a Theory of Change to Learn Across Conservation Enterprises Webinar Presentation
From May to August 2022, seven activity teams, including USAID staff and implementing partners, from five Missions around the globe joined the second round of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab to share with each other their successes and challenges in implementing conservation enterprises.
Conservation Enterprise Impact Lab 2024: Harnessing a Theory of Change for Effective Conservation Enterprise Strategies Webinar Presentation
From May to September 2024, nine activity teams—including USAID staff and implementing partners—from seven countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia participated in the fourth iteration of the Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab.
Conservation Enterprise Planning Checklist
This checklist can be used by practitioners to help plan their conservation enterprise approach.
