El Kit de Herramienta de Pausa y Reflexión proporciona a los facilitadores una colección de recursos, donde encontrarán todo lo que necesitan para liderar y apoyar con los procesos de…
This page includes “how-to” guidance and training materials designed to help teams implement the Open Standards (e.g., training manuals and presentations). Note that we also provide a list of tools which serve as important resource but which do not provide step-by-step guidance.
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Guía de Buenas Prácticas para la Pausa y Reflexión en el Ciclo de Actividades (2023)
Esta guía presenta opciones para los procesos de pausa y reflexión dirigido a grupos a nivel de actividades para informar el aprendizaje de la actividad y la planificación anual de…
Start-Up Guidance for USAID Biodiversity Activities: Process Overview (2016)
Start-Up Guidance for USAID Biodiversity Activities: Process Overview describes the main steps to initiate a new biodiversity or integrated activity, including a theory of change workshop. This short guide explains…
Pause and Reflect Toolkit (2023)
The Pause and Reflect Toolkit provides facilitators with a centralized collection of resources, enabling them to find everything they need to lead and support a pause and reflect process. These…
Good Practices Guide for Pause and Reflect (2023)
The “Good Practices for Pause and Reflect in the Activity Cycle” presents a framework for group-based activity-level pause and reflect processes to inform activity learning and annual work planning. The…
Guidance Document: Alignment Between the Conservation Standards and Corporate ESG Frameworks
For over 20 years, organizations worldwide have been using and collaboratively developing a common language and set of guidelines and tools to address diverse conservation problems through the Conservation Standards…
Nature-based Solutions Learning Initiative 2022 Final Report
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is an expanding field of study focused on how the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of ecosystems can address socio-environmental problems, such as invasive species and climate…
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