Inputs
Are enabling conditions in place to support a sustainable enterprise?
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.
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.
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 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 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 Enterprises: Using a Theory of Change Approach to Examine Evidence for Biodiversity Conservation
In this brief, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment (E3) Office of Forestry and Biodiversity (FAB) Measuring Impact (MI) project examined the evidence presented in the studies included in Roe et al.
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.
Integrated Conservation and Development Projects and Efforts around Amani Nature Reserve, Tanzania, and Their Effects on Livelihoods and Forest Conservation
Key points in document.
Learning our Lessons: A Review of Alternative Livelihood Projects in Central Africa
The study found that a range of different livelihood alternatives (for both protein and income) is currently being offered.
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.
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.
Supplementary Livelihood Options for Pacific Island Communities: A Review of Experiences
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