A Dialogue with Nature: Communities and Carbon in Colombia

This docuseries highlights how carbon projects in Colombia have supported community-led development as well as biodiversity conservation.
Resource - Video

Final Report: USAID Guatemala Biodiversity Project

This final report describes the project’s activities, approaches, and results achieved, and recommendations for the sustainability of these achievements.
Resource - Project Report

Final Report: Build Indonesia to Take Care of Nature for Sustainability Project

This final report summarizes the achievements of the Build Indonesia to Take Care of Nature for Sustainability (BIJAK) project, which supported conservation and management of Indonesia's biodiversity, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and managed natural resources.
Resource - Project Report

Final Report: USAID Regional Program for the Management of Aquatic Resources and Economic Alternatives

The USAID Regional Program for the Management of Aquatic Resources and Economic Alternatives strengthened coastal-marine resource management and biodiversity conservation while improving the livelihoods of local populations.
Resource - Project Report

Community Engagement in Biodiversity Conservation: Lessons from the Field-Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda

This paper examines how conservation practitioners can learn from the effort to question the utility of community engagement, adapt lessons to bridge conservation and development more effectively, and apply the limited funds available to conservation to accomplish more on the ground.
Resource - Paper

Evidence on Biodiversity Conservation Impacts: Assessing Theories, Approaches, and Outcomes from Community Engagement and Tenure

This paper uses systematic synthesis methods to assess the state of the peer-reviewed evidence base on community engagement interventions linked to terrestrial conservation projects. Specifically, it examines the relationships between different engagement approaches and land tenure/governance structures.
Resource - Paper

Contract Completion Report: B+WISER

USAID’s Biodiversity and Watersheds Improved for Stronger Economy and Ecosystem Resilience Program was implemented between December 2012 and December 2018. Through the program’s conservation reforms, substantial accomplishments occurred including transformations in how the Philippine government manages forests at both national and local levels.
Resource - Project Report

Final Report: Resilience in the Limpopo Basin (RESLIM) Program

The USAID-funded Resilience in the Limpopo Basin Program (RESILIM) contributed to significant advances in water management, biodiversity, and climate change adaptation across an area of Southern Africa.
Resource - Project Report

Final Report: Biodiversity-Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Program

The Biodiversity-Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Program (BioREDD+) was USAID’s flagship environmental program in Colombia, designed to support the country in mitigating and adapting to climate change and conserving biodiversity.
Resource - Project Report

Financing Watershed Protection

This infographic provides an overview of how a small city in the Philippines, Bago City, introduced conservation financing.
Resource - Fact Sheet

Final Report: Southern African Regional Environmental Program

USAID’s Southern African Regional Environmental Program worked with partners and stakeholders related to the Okavango River Basin, to forge relationships that allowed a large portion of the people of the basin to have better lives, now and in the future.
Resource - Project Report