Measures of Success
BCN is pleased to announce that the Biodiversity Support Program and Island Press published Measures of Success: Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects (July 1998). The systematic approach presented in Measures is based in large part on work done with BCN grantees to develop and implement their projects and monitoring plans. It grew out of a series of monitoring workshops that BCN held with its partners in 1995 and subsequent field-testing with BCN grantees and other BSP projects.
The ultimate aim of Measures is to help field-based project managers measure the impacts of their conservation and development programs. To measure impacts, however, these managers must have a clear understanding of the conceptual foundations of project design and management. Using concepts gleaned from many different disciplines, Measures presents a simple, logical, and comprehensive approach to identifying, collecting, analyzing, and using information relevant to project management and impact assessment.
The book integrates theoretical, conceptual, and practical issues of project design, management, and monitoring. Measures uses many examples and illustrations drawn from four scenarios that serve as teaching case studies throughout all the chapters. It attempts to tackle the often neglected issue of data analysis for impact assessment and monitoring. Finally, Measures combines experience from domestic (U.S.) and overseas conservation and development work and incorporates the experiences and feedback of many practitioners who have field tested the guide.
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