FOS M&E How-To Guide now available!

FOS M&E How-To Guide now available!

Feb 20, 2019 | FOS News

Conservation projects tend to have limited resources and need to choose M&E designs that match those resources and that help them make good management decisions. This new guidance document provides a basic overview of M&E to clarify some common areas of...
MAVA Foundation Guest Blog

MAVA Foundation Guest Blog

Feb 7, 2019 | Blogs, Ilke Tilders

Excerpt from “The OAP-approach: the quest for impact at scale” Read the full blog on our partner’s page: MAVA Foundation Blog The FOS Europe Team (2018), (from left to right) Vladimir Milushev, Nico Boenisch, Daniela Aschenbrenner and Ilke Tilders...
Investing in strategic planning

Investing in strategic planning

Nov 15, 2018 | Blogs, Nick Salafsky

What is the optimal investment in strategic planning?  At what point does increasing sophisticated planning have diminishing returns or even become counter-productive? Nick Salafsky considers these questions in a recent review for Biological Conservation:   One of the...
A Bird in the Bush Equals Money in the Hand

A Bird in the Bush Equals Money in the Hand

Feb 28, 2018 | FOS News

  FOS’s Arlyne Johnson and colleagues Paul Frederick Eshoo, Sivilay Duangdala, and Troy Hansel find that an ecotourism direct payment approach for wildlife sightings reduces illegal hunting.   Vientiane – Lao-PDR  (2017) – A new study by the...
Lessons from the Field December 2017

Lessons from the Field December 2017

Dec 22, 2017 | FOS News

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to be sure you’re not investing your precious conservation dollars in ineffective strategies? You’re in luck! There’s a framework set up to help teams assess their work and adapt based on new...