Description: This guidance resource supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. However, to be better guidance, significant updates would be required. Some featured text boxes are confusing and the ideas are better expressed in later WWF documents such as the Standards Overview.  Current best practice uses results chains, rather than conceptual models to set objectives, and the use of viability is sketchy. Full citation: WWF. (2006). Resources for Implementing the WWF Project & Programme Standards WWF Step 2.1 Design Action Plan: Goals, Objectives, & Activities. WWF. Gland, Switzerland.

Description: This guidance resource supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. This guidance is very good, but it predates consideration of human wellbeing targets and climate change. Full citation: WWF. (2006). Resources for Implementing the WWF Project & Programme Standards WWF Step 1.4 Situation Analysis. WWF. Gland, Switzerland.

Description: This guidance resource supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. However, the coverage of stresses is a little short on examples, and it fails to adequately distinguish between threats and stresses Full citation: WWF. (2007). Resources for Implementing the WWF Project & Programme Standards WWF Step 1.4 Threat Ranking. WWF. Gland, Switzerland.

Description: This document is intended as a guidance resource to support the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. It is a very good resource, but predates discussion about Human Wellbeing Targets and climate change. Full citation: WWF. (2005). Resources for Implementing the WWF Project & Programme Standards Cross Cutting tools: Conceptual Models. WWF. Gland, Switzerland.

Description: This document is intended as a guidance resource to support the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. It is a very good resource, but predates discussion about human wellbeing targets. The concept of “footprint” targets is a little confusing and is not consistent with the Open Standards. As with its sister guidance document on scope and vision, it needs better coverage of thematic scopes. Full citation: WWF. (2009). Resources for Implementing the WWF Project & Programme Standards WWF Step 1.3 Targets and Target Viability. WWF. Gland, Switzerland.

Description: This guidance document supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. Some parts of the guidance are now dated.  It could use better detail on thematic scope and in developing shorter vision statements. The WWF On-line manual does these things better. Full citation: WWF. (2006). Resources for Implementing the WWF Project & Programme Standards Step 1.2 Define Project Scope & Vision. WWF. Gland, Switzerland.

TNC presents this guidance as an evolution in the conservation approach of the Conservancy and the Open Standards more generally. It is centered on four topics: 1) explicit consideration of linkages between people and nature, 2) design interventions focused on creating systemic change, 3) integration of spatial planning with the development of new conservation strategies, and 4) robustly drawing upon and building the evidence base for conservation. This guide raises some important issues that are sometimes implicit or not directly addressed in the Open Standards and existing guidance. High-level ideas, such as focusing on systematic change, are sound. However, the…