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| Measures of Success : Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects | 
| Authors: Nick Salafsky, Richard A. Margoluis
Creator: Anna Balla
Publisher: Island Press
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 587845
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1559636122
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9516
EAN: 9781559636124
ASIN: 1559636122
Publication Date: June 1, 1998
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Product Description
"Measures of Success" is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, managing, and measuring the impacts of community-oriented conservation and development projects. It presents a simple, clear, logical, and yet comprehensive approach to developing and implementing effective programs, and can help conservation and development practitioners use principles of adaptive management to test assumptions about their projects and learn from the results.The book presents a systematic approach to improving the focus, effectiveness, and efficiency of projects, with specific guidelines and advice on: designing a realistic conceptual framework based on local site conditions developing clearly defined goals, objectives, and activities creating a monitoring plan that can be used to assess whether goals and objectives are being met integrating social and biological science techniques to collect the most relevant and useful data in the most cost-effective way using the information obtained through the monitoring plan to modify the project and learn from the resultThe text is developed in eight chapters that follow the structure of a planning process from conception to completion, with the chapters linked by four scenarios that serve as teaching case studies throughout the book. Examples from these scenarios illustrate the processes and tools discussed, and each scenario case study is presented in its entirety in an appendix to the volume. The approach has been developed and field tested by practitioners working in many different projects in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and their experience and input ensure that the guide is both practical and useful."Measures of Success" is the only work of its kindcurrently available, and represents an invaluable resource for field-based practitioners, project managers, and local community leaders, as well as for international NGO staff, college and university teachers and students, researchers, and government officials.
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Practical hands-on guide November 18, 1998
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
- Expecting a book funded by the Biodiversity Support Program to be as dry as most of the information that comes from this Beltway consortium, I was surprised by this book. Clearly designed, imaginatively illustrated, the book provides a clear conceptual model of what could go right with conservation and development. Designed as a practical hands-on guide, it succeeds. My only complaint is the authors continued ignorance of the internet can be used. Too bad they couldn't push the case for more creative information sharing.
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