Project Management
Gain practical insights into managing conservation projects with efficiency and inclusivity. Explore safeguarding principles, stakeholder engagement, gender equity, and communications strategies. Learn to navigate challenges such as grievance mechanisms and fund management while ensuring your projects deliver meaningful impacts.
Explore all our other courses on Professional Development, Team & Leadership and webinars to further enhance your expertise and broaden your impact.
*NEW* Building Better Project Budgets
This course will take you through how to build better project budgets.
By better, we mean more realistic and resilient budgets that meet project, funder and organisational requirements.
Available in English, Español, Português, မြန်မာ
Development of this course was made possible thanks to the kind support of the Paul M Angell Family Foundation.
*NEW* Nature-Positive Enterprise
Whether you’re experienced in enterprise and looking to strengthen the link between business and biodiversity outcomes, or new to enterprise development, this course will equip you with an understanding of how enterprise can be a powerful driver of biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods.
The course consists of five modules, structured to take you from conception to implementation and management of Nature-Positive Enterprises. You’ll learn from real-life case studies and, with structured guidance, develop a robust business plan for your own Nature-Positive Enterprise.
→Module 1: Redefining Enterprise: What Makes a Business Nature-Positive
→Module 2: Preparing for Nature-Positive Enterprise Development
→Module 3: Introducing the Business Model Canvas for Nature-Positive Enterprises
→Module 4 – Part 1: Preparing to launch a Nature-Positive Enterprise
→Module 4 – Part 2: Preparing to launch a Nature-Positive Enterprise
→Module 5: Managing a Nature Positive Enterprise
Safeguarding in Conservation
Learn about safeguarding, its definition, and the link between power and abuse risk. Develop an organisational approach with clear roles and responsibilities. Learn to encourage reporting, reduce barriers, and respond effectively. Use self-assessment to evaluate your team’s safeguarding progress.
→ Module 1: Introducing Safeguarding in Conservation (Also Available in Español)
→ Module 2: How to Develop an Organisational Approach to Safeguarding (Also available in Español)
→ Module 3: Encouraging and Responding to Reports. (Also available in Español)
→ Module 4: Safeguarding Self-Assessment (Also available in Español)
Data Basics
Welcome everyone! Let’s explore the data world together with this comprehensive course. Our goal is to empower you with the skills and knowledge required to confidently engage with data.
→ Demystifying data
Available in English, Français, မြန်မာ, Español, Português, Tiếng Việt, Indonesia, ខ្មែរ
→ Planning your data with the end use in mind
Available in English, Français, မြန်မာ, Español, Português, Tiếng Việt, Indonesia, ខ្មែរ
→ Good data
Available in English, Français, မြန်မာ, Español, Português, Tiếng Việt, Indonesia, ខ្មែរ.
→ Managing data responsibly
Available in English, Français, မြန်မာ, Español, Português, Tiếng Việt, Indonesia, ខ្មែរ.
→ Data basics- check your understanding
Available in English, Français, မြန်မာ, Español, Português, Tiếng Việt, Indonesia, ខ្មែរ.
Social Safeguards
Learn about social safeguards in biodiversity conservation and their role in promoting fairness and effectiveness. Explore grievance mechanisms as a key tool for implementing social safeguards and ensuring fair conservation practices.
→ Take the course – An Introduction to Social Safeguards. Also available in: မြန်မာ, Español, Português, Tiếng Việt, Pусский
→ An introduction to Grievance Mechanisms. Also available in: Español
Introduction To Communication Strategies
“Saving our planet is now a communications challenge. We know what to do, we just need the will.” – David Attenborough
Do you want to have more effective communications? Do you find it difficult to prioritise or find you often don’t have enough time?
Whether you are an NGO member of staff or a communications professional this is the course for you!
We know that working in an NGO means you have multiple demands on your time. Communications can be difficult to prioritise. This course is to help you save time and focus your energy to achieve success.
Also available in: Español
→ Take the course – Introduction to Communications Strategies
Gender in Conservation Projects
An introduction to gender in the context of conservation, including some suggestions on how you can promote gender equity within your projects.
Also available in: Español
Outputs, Outcomes, Impacts, Oh My
Clarify project terminology and understand the differences between inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts for effective proposal writing.
An Introduction To Stakeholder Engagement
Learn why engaging with community stakeholders is crucial for equitable conservation, and how to do it effectively.
Also available in: Español, Français
→ Take the course – An Introduction to Stakeholder Engagement