Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab

Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab
The Impact Lab aims to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and abilities of participating teams to improve the effectiveness of their conservation enterprise approaches.
Musahar women collecting ferns for personal consumption

The USAID Conservation Enterprises Learning Group facilitates learning by using a generalized theory of change and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) framework to help activity teams design, monitor, evaluate, and share lessons from their conservation enterprise (CE) approaches. From 2019 to 2022, 23 activity teams from 13 Missions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean developed 32 posters to illustrate their CE theories of change.

In 2021 USAID, with support from the Measuring Impact II (MI2) activity, initiated an Impact Lab, a series of facilitated conversations around the Conservation Enterprises Learning Group theory of change. In 2022, USAID and MI2 facilitated a second CE Impact Lab. Seven activity teams from five Missions shared their experiences supporting community-level enterprises as a conservation approach. Beginning in June, the Impact Lab facilitators guided the teams in developing their conservation enterprises theories of change and MEL frameworks and identifying lessons learned. Each team produced a poster illustrating their activity’s theory of change, which they presented while sharing useful tools and methodologies during the final session in August.

2022 Conservation Enterprises CE Impact Lab

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. Using the Conservation Enterprise Theory of Change, the teams focused on adaptations to drive toward improved biodiversity conservation and human well-being outcomes. Each activity team produced a poster that illustrates their activity’s theory of change, key assumptions, and lessons learned. The teams presented these posters in a Conservation Enterprise Learning Group final session on August 23, 2022.

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July 2017. Owner, Idevlino Dagot, making rattan furniture at Dagot Rattan Crafts and Furniture. Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. Photograph by Jason Houston for USAID
 

2021 Conservation Enterprises CE Impact Lab

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.

Using the Conservation Enterprise Theory of Change, the teams focused on adaptations to drive toward improved biodiversity conservation and human well-being outcomes. Each activity team produced a poster that illustrates their activity’s theory of change, key assumptions, and lessons learned. The teams presented these posters in a Conservation Enterprise Learning Group Webinar on July 22, 2021.

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2019 Conservation Enterprises CE Impact Lab

At the July 2019 USAID Environment Officers’ Conference, USAID's Conservation Enterprise Learning Group hosted a Global Learning and Experience Exchange (GLEE). Representatives from 12 USAID-supported conservation enterprise activities presented case studies based on the Conservation Enterprise generalized theory of change.

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November 2017. Tourists take jungles safaris on elephants in hopes of viewing a Greater One-horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Bagmara Buffer Zone. Sauraha, Chitwan District, Nepal. Photograph by Jason Houston for USAID
 

Conservation Enterprises CE Impact Lab Timeline

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2022

Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab

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. Using the Conservation Enterprise Theory of Change, the teams focused on adaptations to drive toward improved biodiversity conservation and human well-being outcomes. Each activity team produced a poster that illustrates their activity’s theory of change, key assumptions, and lessons learned. The teams presented these posters in a Conservation Enterprise Learning Group final session on August 23, 2022.

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2021

Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab

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.

Using the Conservation Enterprise Theory of Change, the teams focused on adaptations to drive toward improved biodiversity conservation and human well-being outcomes. Each activity team produced a poster that illustrates their activity’s theory of change, key assumptions, and lessons learned. The teams presented these posters in a Conservation Enterprise Learning Group Webinar on July 22, 2021.

  View Posters | View Webinar | View Slide Deck
 

2019

Conservation Enterprises Impact Lab

At the July 2019 USAID Environment Officers’ Conference, USAID's Conservation Enterprise Learning Group hosted a Global Learning and Experience Exchange (GLEE). Representatives from 12 USAID-supported conservation enterprise activities presented case studies based on the Conservation Enterprise generalized theory of change.

View Posters
 
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