Guidance
Document Type
Alternative Sustainable Livelihoods for Coastal Communities: A Review of Experience and Guide to Best Practice
Key points in document.
Community-Based Forest Enterprises: Their Status and Potential in Tropical Countries
Key points in document.
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 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 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.
Conservation Marketing Equation: A Manual for Conservation and Development Professionals
Key points in document.
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.
Local Business for Global Biodiversity Conservation: Improving the Design of Small Business Development Strategies in Biodiversity Projects
This guidebook guides conservation planners and project designers through three main steps in designing local businesses aimed at conservation: (1) assessing the role of small businesses in conservation; (2) determining if small businesses can be socially, economically, and environmentally viable and sustainable; and (3) incorporating issues important to small business development, such as local regulations and resource rights, into the project design.
Local Communities and Natural Products: A Manual for Organizing Natural Resource Management Groups for Resource Management Planning, Enterprise Development and Integration into Value Chains
This manual is intended to guide project planners through the process of integrating enterprises related to the production of goods from natural products into community-based natural resource management plans.
Measuring Impact - Making Use of the Portfolio: Organizational Learning at USAID
This technical analysis explores previous and ongoing social learning efforts, best practices, challenges, and lessons in USAID as a foundation for improving the implementation and design of the Agency’s forestry and biodiversity programs.
Sustainable Livelihoods Enhancement and Diversification (SLED): A Manual for Practitioners
Key points in document.
Systematic Approaches to Livelihoods Enhancement and Diversification: A Review of Global Experiences
Key points in document.
Using a Theory of Change to Learn Across Conservation Enterprises Posters
In summer 2021, six activity teams, including USAID staff and implementing partners, from five Missions around the globe joined the new Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab to share with each other their successes and challenges in implementing conservation enterprises.
