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USAID Resilience Learning Activity

December 15, 2022

The Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) supports USAID’s staff, offices, and partners in Ethiopia with learning, collaboration, and research to strengthen the resilience of households, communities, and systems.

Leading by Listening: How Outside Facilitation Can Support Strategy Development

October 6, 2022

Strategy development is standard procedure in international development, but without intentional planning... Read more » Continue Reading

EI Proudly Endorses the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation

September 22, 2022

At Environmental Incentives, our organizational purpose is to create the conditions for... Read more » Continue Reading

USAID Seeks Public Comment on Draft Beneficiary Feedback Guidance

September 19, 2022

Photo by Jason Houston for USAID. USAID is seeking external feedback on... Read more » Continue Reading

Protecting Natural Capital in East Africa: From Evidence to Action

August 24, 2022

East Africa’s iconic landscapes, and the communities that depend on them, are... Read more » Continue Reading

EI Joins LINC on USAID’s Resilience Platform in Ethiopia

August 11, 2022

Woliso, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie. We are pleased to share that... Read more » Continue Reading

In Good Company: Learning from Private-Sector Engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean

July 12, 2022

In the southern Mexican state of Jalisco, several agro-industrial companies have a... Read more » Continue Reading

Latin America and the Caribbean Environment Support Contract Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report

Ripple Effects: Strengthening Water Fund Sustainability in the Andean Region

May 3, 2022

In the misty forests of Colombia’s Andes Mountain region, the world seems... Read more » Continue Reading

From Knowing To Doing: Building Skills to Improve Evidence Use

March 24, 2022

The conservation sector is flush with information, but at times faces a... Read more » Continue Reading

Protecting East Africa’s Natural Capital in a Changing Climate Context: The Cost of Inaction

November 2, 2021

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EI Joins EnCompass on USAID’s TOPS

July 27, 2021

Photo by USAID Energy We are pleased to share we will be... Read more » Continue Reading

USAID/ESC Announces Virtual Climate Change Symposium

June 10, 2021

Photo by Kadir van Lohuizen for NOOR. U.S Embassy Guyana | June... Read more » Continue Reading

A Foundation’s Perspective on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

May 27, 2021

Welcome to the second installment in our MEL Blog Series. Revisit our... Read more » Continue Reading

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Support for the Walton Family Foundation

EI is serving as thinking-and-doing partners around monitoring, evaluation, and learning for the Walton Family Foundation’s Environment Program. EI is supporting staff to ask targeted questions, manage information, evaluate performance, and make more informed decisions to guide adaptive management of initiatives and investments.

Beyond Bean Counting: Insights from Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Frameworks

April 27, 2021

Welcome to the first installment of our MEL Blog Series. Learn more... Read more » Continue Reading

How Can We Address Mismatches in Conservation Research and Practice?

April 7, 2021

This blog, coauthored by Natalie Dubois and Rebecca Jarvis, originally appeared on... Read more » Continue Reading

Environmental Incentives Joins Banyan Global on USAID’s EVAL-ME II IDIQ

February 5, 2021

Photo by Tanya Martineau, Prospect Arts, Food for the Hungry, for USAID.... Read more » Continue Reading

New Paper Highlights Lessons Learned from Locally Managed Marine Area in Madagascar

November 2, 2020

Traditional fishermen on Madagascar's west coast near Andavadoaka. Photo by Shawn Peabody... Read more » Continue Reading

Environmental Incentives Awarded USAID’s Program Cycle Mechanism

August 5, 2020

Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID Environmental Incentives (EI) has been awarded the Program Cycle Mechanism (PCM) by the... Read more » Continue Reading

USAID Program Cycle Mechanism

August 4, 2020

PCM supports the efforts of USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning (PPL) to cohesively implement the Program Cycle and encourage adaptive management across the Agency and its programs.

New Paper Looks at How Practitioners Can Strengthen Decision-Making in Conservation Practice

December 5, 2019

Environmental Incentives Senior Research Specialist Natalie Dubois co-authored a paper published today in the... Read more » Continue Reading

What are collective action approaches anyway?

November 20, 2019

By Laura R. Brunson (Millennium Water Alliance), Shawn Peabody (Environmental Incentives), Daniel... Read more » Continue Reading

USAID HA ADJUDICADO A ENVIRONMENTAL INCENTIVES EL CONTRATO DE SERVICIOS DE APOYO AL MEDIO AMBIENTE PARA AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE

November 5, 2019

Environmental Incentives (EI) ha ganado el “Contrato de Servicios de Apoyo al... Read more » Continue Reading

Environmental Incentives Awarded USAID’s Latin America and the Caribbean Environment Support Services Contract

Environmental Incentives (EI) has been awarded the USAID Bureau for Latin America... Read more » Continue Reading

5 Minutes with Kelsey Schueler

July 31, 2019

We sat down for five minutes with Kelsey Schueler, a Senior Associate... Read more » Continue Reading

USAID Recognized for Evidence Excellence

February 4, 2019

We are thrilled to learn that the United States Agency for International... Read more » Continue Reading

USAID Measuring Impact II

November 13, 2018

Measuring Impact II (MI2) will support USAID thought leaders, mission staff, and Washington bureaus to apply evidence-based adaptive management across USAID’s $265 million annual biodiversity portfolio.

Measuring Impact Final Report

November 8, 2018

The Measuring Impact (MI) Final Report highlights six years of designing and… Read more »

Getting Women in the Room: Lessons in Gender and WASH

October 30, 2018

What does it mean for a project to be “sustainable”? Most fundamentally,... Read more » Continue Reading

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Supporting & Improving Adaptive Management in Mozambique

October 11, 2018

What does it really mean to collaborate, learn, and adapt? How can... Read more » Continue Reading

Environmental Incentives Awarded USAID Measuring Impact II

September 13, 2018

Photo by Jason Houston for USAID Environmental Incentives has been awarded the... Read more » Continue Reading

Lessons from 6 Years of Learning & Adapting with USAID

August 20, 2018

Change management. Increased effectiveness. Continuous Learning. These are the themes that animate... Read more » Continue Reading

Without Evidence, Conservation is a Guessing Game

July 10, 2018

We make decisions every day. We like to think that we use... Read more » Continue Reading

Evidence in Action, Unit 4: Building the Evidence Base

June 6, 2018

Evidence in Action, Unit 4: Building the Evidence Base highlights ways in… Read more »

Evidence in Action, Unit 3: Generating Evidence

Evidence in Action Unit 3: Generating Evidence identifies Program Cycle processes that… Read more »

Evidence in Action, Unit 2: Using Evidence

Evidence in Action, Unit 2:Using Evidence focuses on the critical review and… Read more »

Evidence in Action, Unit 1: Understanding an Evidence-Based Approach

Evidence in Action-Unit 1: Using an Evidence-Based Approach provides an introduction to… Read more »

Sitka Technology Group Partner Spotlight

March 5, 2018

Sitka Technology Group is a leading software development provider with decades of… Read more »

Nevada Conservation Credit System Improvement Recommendations Report

December 22, 2017

Key to the long-term success of a conservation program is the adoption of well-supported improvements to the program. Improvements can ensure policies, procedures, and tools continue to support the program’s goals and objectives. The Nevada Conservation Credit System undergoes an annual process to evaluate successes and potential improvements. This report synthesizes the recommended improvements, along with the achievement and challenges of the program, and was adopted by the Sagebrush Ecosystem Council in December, 2016.

Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership Fact Sheet

November 22, 2017

The Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS) is a global U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) cooperative agreement with the University of Colorado Boulder (UCB) and a consortium of nine partners. It is aimed at developing, demonstrating, learning about, and sharing evidence on systems change approaches in order to improve the sustainability of WASH services and to demonstrate the ways in which such approaches can be incorporated effectively into future WASH sector activities. As the learning partner, Environmental Incentives supports consortium members to test systems-strengthening actions.

What Do Declining Elephant Populations & Failed Hand Pumps Have in Common?

August 28, 2017

More than you might think. The conservation and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)… Read more »

How Do You Know Adaptive Management When You See It?

February 23, 2017

Environmental policies and programs that lack the ability to demonstrate results are... Read more » Continue Reading

Performance-Driven Conservation Embraced by New Federal Policies

October 21, 2016

Two draft policies recently released by the US Fish & Wildlife Service,… Read more »

Environmental Incentives wins USAID Video Contest

May 20, 2016

On October 1, 2015, the video storyboard entry by Environmental Incentives (EI)… Read more »

Tahoe – Lake Clarity Crediting Program Version 2.0

August 26, 2015

The Lake Clarity Crediting Program represents the foundation of Environmental Incentives’ performance… Read more »

Jeremy Sokulsky

July 5, 2016

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Chad Praul

July 20, 2016

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Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership

November 30, 2017

The Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership seeks to improve the sustainability of USAID investments in water, sanitation, and hygiene services and share successful systems change approaches that will improve sustainability of the sector overall.

Liz Lauck

July 25, 2016

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Maria Celes Abragan

May 30, 2019

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USAID Sharing Environment and Energy Knowledge

November 30, 2018

Sharing Environment and Energy Knowledge (SEEK) aims to strengthen USAID’s capacity for greater efficiency, learning, and adaptive management.

Brittany Ajroud

November 29, 2016

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Making Use of the Portfolio: Organizational Learning at USAID

August 25, 2016

This technical analysis explores previous and ongoing social learning efforts, best practices, challenges, and lessons in USAID as a foundation for improving the implementation and design of the Agency’s forestry and biodiversity programs. This analysis is particularly relevant as USAID begins to develop a Biodiversity Cross-Mission Learning Program under the Measuring Impact project. The findings reported in this document can help inform the overall design and structure of the Learning Program and provide insight into possible challenges and best practices.

Erik Anderson

July 20, 2016

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Jenny Baca, Ph.D.

April 30, 2020

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Mule Deer Habitat Quantification Tool

August 20, 2019

We’re working with Colorado Parks and Wildlife to develop a Mule Deer Habitat Quantification Tool that will support mule deer conservation in the state.

Claudia Benavides

November 7, 2022

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Matthew Bentley, PhD, EI

December 29, 2022

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USAID Measuring Impact

June 27, 2016

Measuring Impact (MI) aims to increase USAID’s capacity to design, monitor, evaluate, and improve the impact of biodiversity conservation and natural resource management programs around the world.

Nav Bhattarai

September 29, 2021

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Nevada Conservation Credit System User’s Guide v1.1

August 24, 2016

The User’s Guide describes the detailed steps necessary to calculate credits and credit obligations for credit and debit sites, respectively, for the Nevada Conservation Credit System.

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