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The Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) is a partnership of conservation NGOs that seek better ways to design, manage, and measure the impacts of their conservation actions. CMP members have come together to work on issues related to impact assessment and accountability because we believe that, collectively, we have a greater chance of designing and implementing effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and ultimately, enhancing program and project design and implementation. We believe that CMP will serve as a dynamic and active catalyst for promoting innovation in monitoring and evaluation in conservation. We have formed CMP with a mission to capture and convey conditions needed for successful biodiversity conservation and to resolve the conservation community’s most intractable M&E problems.
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CMP Highlights
Version 2.0 of the Standards Now Available - CMP has updated its Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation to reflect key lessons learned from putting the Standards into practice from 2004-2007. The Standards represent the collective experience of its members in conservation project design, management, and monitoring and, as such, provide the steps and general guidance necessary for the successful implementation of conservation projects. Also available in Spanish and French.
Introducing Miradi 2.4 - Miradi 2.4 is now avaliable at www.miradi.org. The Miradi software helps practitioners to implement the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation - walking them, step by step through designing, managing, monitoring, and learning from their conservation projects. Go to www.miradi.org to lean more or to download Miradi 2.4. Version 3.0 with many significant improvemetns is set to be released in late Spring 2009!
IUCN-CMP Unified Classifications of Direct Threats and Conservation Actions - One of the foundations of any science is a common nomenclature that practitioners can use to describe the problems they are facing and the solutions they are using in a mutually intelligible way. Previously, CMP and IUCN's Red List had each independently developed their own classification systems. These two groups have now merged their separate systems into unified classifications that practitioners can use to better understand their site, roll-up data across sites, and to accurately compare notes with others in similar situations. The web version of the classifications includes additional explanatory information as well as a place for you to provide feedback and comments. | |
