Combined Strategic Approaches
Are enabling conditions in place to support a sustainable enterprise?
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.
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.
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.
Conservation Enterprise Planning Checklist
This checklist can be used by practitioners to help plan their conservation enterprise approach.
Conservation Enterprise: What Works, Where and for Whom?
Key points in document.
Democratising forest business: a compendium of successful locally controlled forest business organisations
The main purpose of this book is to present 19 case studies from 14 developing countries that show how local people have been democratising forest business.
Elephant Pepper: Establishing Conservation-Focused Business
This case study examines the development of a commercial product at the intersection of biodiversity conservation, economic development, and improvement in the livelihoods of poor African farmers.
Enterprise Strategies for Coastal and Marine Conservation: A Summary of Best Practices
This summary of best practices in coastal conservation based enterprises is meant to assist coastal practitioners and local government officials who currently use, or are interested in using, enterprise as a strategy for the conservation of biological diversity in rural coastal communities and to benefit local populations and their natural environment.
Enterprise Strategies for Coastal and Marine Conservation: Review of Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Key points in document.
Lessons on Community Enterprise Interventions for Landscape/Seascape Level Conservation: Seven Case Studies from the Global Conservation Program
Key points in document.
Measuring Impact: Lessons Learned from the Forest, Climate and Communities Alliance
The Forest, Climate, and Communities Alliance (FCCA) was an initiative funded by USAID’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and the Environment/Office of Forestry and Biodiversity (E3/FAB) under the USAID Global Development Alliance (GDA) between 2009 and 2013.
Nature, Wealth, Power 2.0: Leveraging Natural and Social Capital for Resilient Development
This volume is a sequel to the original Nature, Wealth, & Power framework paper (NWP1), produced in 2002.
Sustainable Livelihoods Enhancement and Diversification (SLED): A Manual for Practitioners
Key points in document.
Tmatboey Community-Based Ecotourism Project, Cambodia
Case study of the Tmatboey Ibis Project which aims to conserve the globally threatened large waterbirds found at Tmatboey, Cambodiam using the ibises as ‘flagships’, by establishing a local community-based tourism enterprise that directly links revenue received to long-term species conservation.
