Other Tools

This Tool is not meant to be a single solution to address human rights and conservation work. It aims to be a preliminary process to identify issues and perform early due diligence in advance of other work — organizing project decisions around IPLC self-determination, designing mitigation strategies, and project implementation.

These challenges might be addressed by other tools, some of which are compiled below:

• Human Rights Guide

  TNC’s core guidance on how to pursue ambitious conservation agendas with full respect for human rights and IPLC self-determination. This Tool should be considered one component of the larger vision in the Human Rights Guide, and as such it points repeatedly to corresponding Human Rights Guide Modules.

• Voice, Choice, and Action (VCA) Framework 2.0

  The VCA Framework Guide provides the most up-to-date vision of what TNC’s vision of human rights-based conservation in partnership with IPLCs is. The most recent version was launched in May 2022.

  See also: VCA Website  VCA Appendix of Additional Resources  including diagnostics, manuals, and templates VCA Tool 10: Guidebook to Sustainable Livelihoods and Community Enterprises 

• Guidance for Integrating Gender Equity in Conservation

  This helps teams to locate their project’s level of opportunity and ambition on a Gender Integration Continuum in order to select issues, checklists, exercises, and tips to get started with integration of gender equity. TNC also has regional gender communities of practice in Asia-Pacific Rim, Africa, and Latin America.

• Conservation by Design (CbD) 2.0

  An older articulation of ideas first outlined in 1996, CbD was where TNC began to articulate its vision of people-centered environmental conservation. It has shaped countless TNC projects and helps situate conservation ambitions within complex social and environmental realities, both globally and locally.

  See also: CbD website , CbD resource center

• Conservation Measures Partnership and Healthy Country Planning

  The CMP is a global community of partners, of which TNC is a founding member, that fosters worldwide conservation efforts drawing on expertise from government, NGOs, and private business.

  HCP is an adaptation of Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation, drawing on robust strategic planning approaches of various industries.

  See also: Conservation Standards website , Healthy Country Planning policy and training documents and Resource Library

• CI’s Indigenous Negotiations Resource Guide

  Critically important perspective and issue framing.

• FPIC 360

  Sponsored by USAID.

• INTRINSIC: Integrating rights and social issues in conservation

• UNDP Social and Environmental Screening Procedure (SESP)

• IUCN Gender and Environment Resource Center

  Provides an extensive library of tools for gender-based analysis, often specific to particular issue sets and geographic regions.

• CCB Standards

• REDD+ SIS—materials

• GCF Safeguards—materials

• WWF Safeguards—materials

• Conservation Initiative on Human Rights—member publications

• EJScreen: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (United States)

• Rights Tracker by The Human Rights Measurement Initiative

  A unique collaborative venture between human rights practitioners, researchers, academics, and other human rights supporters.

• Swedish International Development Agency’s Human Rights Based Approach

  This toolbox provides knowledge, tools and inspiration on how to apply the Human Rights Based Approach in Swedish development cooperation. It is key to integrating human rights and contributing to democratic development in all of Sida’s development cooperation.