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Conservation Monitoring Methods
Explore our repository of field-proven, cost-effective monitoring methods. Each category contains both Traditional and Non-Traditional monitoring methods with practical approaches to effectively monitor a project’s priority indicators. Use the filters to sort and select the categories most relevant to your project's monitoring needs. If you can't find what you're looking for, please let us know or submit a monitoring method using the "Submit a Monitoring Method" form at the bottom of the page.
COMET monitoring methods meet most, if not all of the following COMET criteria:
- Measuring outcome-focused indicators - monitoring methods that focus on the right side of a theory of change (e.g. wildlife population trends, food security) rather than on the left side (e.g. number of workshops held, number of patrols conducted) - the latter are very important, but are generally easier to quantify and monitor
- Practical, scalable and replicable - monitoring methods that have been applied at multiple projects or sites, that have been repeated over time, and which require relatively lower costs or specialized technical expertise
- Accurate, sensitive and statistically robust - monitoring methods that reliably represent trends in the indicator of interest, that are designed to allow for reliable statistical inference where applicable, and which provide information that can be used to make management decisions
- Evidence-based - monitoring methods that seek to improve the evidence base for effective conservation practice
- Full cycle adaptive management - monitoring methods that fit into the adaptive management cycle from the Conservation Standards, from situation analysis through implementation and adaptive management to communication of results
- Open source - methods for which guidance, monitoring guidance collection tools, and other support are publicly and freely available
- Cost-effective - methods are cost-effective, meaning the method has a relatively low cost for the effectiveness of the method, or there is a low cost barrier to use the method
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