Capacity for conservation website
Capacity for conservation website
Capacity for conservation is a free online resource designed to act as a central hub where conservation organisations can download tools, contribute their expertise, and learn from one another to strengthen their ability to address complex conservation challenges. Capacity for conservation recognises that conservation organisations often ask similar questions as to how they can best address the challenges they are tackling, and aims to provides resources such as published reports, case studies and indicators that these types of organisations can use to help them answer their questions, as well as a global platform for organisations to share best practice with one another. In addition to access to resources and examples of best practice, capacityforconservation.org also offers self-led organisational health checks for conservation organisations. The results of these health checks indicate areas where organisations could consider improving their capacity, along with recommendations for tools on the website that the organisation could use to do so. An organisation that needs to work on its financial management, for example, would be directed to over 25 resources, ranging from a guide to budgetary management to a document about risk analysis.
This website is an output of the CCI Collaborative Fund projects Enhancing leadership in organisational development among conservation organisations globally and Building a network of institutional NGO capacity to support sustainable conservation
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Enhancing leadership in organisational development among conservation organisations globally
There is growing recognition that sustained conservation impact requires effective leadership from local and national organisations in biodiversity-rich countries. Strengthening the institutional capacity of these organisations is crucial to ensuring they can survive and deliver effective, locally-tailored conservation action. By building collaborative support to tackle common organisational development needs, this project aims to enhance leadership…

Building a network of institutional NGO capacity to support sustainable conservation
National and local conservation organisations in biodiversity-rich developing countries require institutional capacity in conservation leadership and systemic organisation. This includes areas such as strategic planning, governance, fundraising, monitoring and evaluation and financial management. To provide the affordable self–sustained institutional capacity development needed, this collaborative project will: Assess organisational capacity gaps in a trial group of…