Adaptive Management, Including Monitoring and Evaluation Planning Sample Clauses

Adaptive Management, Including Monitoring and Evaluation Planning. Effective conservation must be results-oriented and measurable. It also must be flexible and easily adapted to changing circumstances, new threats, or unforeseen opportunities. WWF’s conservation approach starts and ends with hard biological and social science and analytical rigor. Our WWF Standards approach is an adaptive management process that identifies and tracks short, medium and long term indicators on the status of threats, socio-economic factors, biodiversity targets, and strategies. It uses a rigorous threats-based process to prioritize conservation strategies, a thorough assessment of biodiversity targets to understand current viability and set long term goals for ecological sustainability, and a results chains process to determine short and long term metrics for evaluating both strategy effectiveness and status of each threat. The indicators developed through the Standards provide a strong basis for regular monitoring and evaluation over time by WWF and partners: to track progress, adjust strategies, and adapt to new threats, opportunities or changing circumstances. The Standards are promoted in the WWF Network as “current best practices” rather than as a rigidly applied conservation planning and management process. WWF wants the Standards used at all scales and promotes flexibility in their use and innovation. As WWF and partners discover new ways to apply these processes for effective conservation outcomes, we are constantly learning and improving the Standards content and process. We anticipate that SCAPES activities will contribute to this iterative adaptive management process. Application of the WWF Standards is backed by a large support and training network, and a wide array of support materials and examples (publicly available at xxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxxx). SCAPES M&E planning will be built on existing WWF Standards-based M&E plans in the activities. We will work with our partners to develop more detailed Performance Monitoring Plans (PMPs), as per USAID guidelines and integrating required USAID indicators, to plan, document, and monitor our data collection. Based on our scientific foundation, WWF and our partners track progress on a small, representative group of biodiversity targets – species, ecosystems or ecological processes – in each place we work. In many of these places, we have added key social metrics to simultaneously understand our impact on basic human needs, such as health, wealth and community empowerment. Importantly, each biod...