Strategy Development for Wildlife Conservation

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This best practice provides a knowledge base for developing a conservation strategy suitable for any scale, complexity, or time frame of conservation work.

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Using this best practice will help you:

• Apply key principles that lead to developing a stronger strategy

• Engage stakeholders, to ensure that the right groups are involved in developing the strategy

• Carry out a situation analysis, to better understand and document the current situation that the project team is trying to change

• Define the impact the project team wants to achieve

• Plan the work the project team will carry out to achieve the impact

• Set a monitoring approach that will provide the project team with the information they need to assess the project’s impact and to adapt to changing conditions and new information

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This best practice is compatible with the Project Management for Wildlife Conservation best practice and the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation .

This best practice comes with a set of document templates and tools that you can use to:

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• Create conceptual models used for a situation analysis and theory of change

• Assess stakeholders, threats, activities, and methods

What can I do next?​

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• Share this best practice with others

• Gain skills in this best practice through an online or classroom training workshop

• Contact hello@wildteam.org.uk to see how we can help infuse this best practice into your team