This module is part of the UWA Community Conservation 
        Warden training package, which was designed for UWA, 
         with support from IIED and funding from UK Aid.  The 
                package contains the following modules:  
       1. Introduction to Community Conservation
       2. Effective Communication 
       3. Community Mobilisation
       4. Facilitating Community Meetings
       5. Undertaking Gender Assessments for Conservation
       6. Planning Community Conservation Interventions and 
          Projects
       7. Conflict Management
       8. Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting
                       All modules can be found via 
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                    www.iied.org/UWA-warden-training
           Module 6: Planning a Community Conservation 
           Intervention
                 1. Basic terminology in conservation 
                 interventions and projects
                Learning objective: Understand terminology
                 2. Planning
                Learning objective: Learn about the steps of planning for a 
                  conservation project or intervention
           Note: this module focuses on the core elements of the planning 
               process: for details on budgeting, and on monitoring and 
                    evaluation, please refer to Bibby and Adler 2008
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                    1. BASIC TERMINOLOGY IN 
                 CONSERVATION INTERVENTION 
                              AND PROJECT
                   Learning objective 1: Understand 
                   basic terminology in conservation 
                   intervention and project planning
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        Concepts and definitions
        ■Project
        ■Intervention
        ■Community project 
        ■Planning
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          Project
          ■‘A series of activities aimed at bringing about clearly 
             specified objectives within a defined period and with 
             a defined budget’
          – Clearly identified stakeholders and target 
             beneficiaries
          – Defined management and financing arrangements
          – A monitoring and evaluation system
          European Commission, 2004: 8
          ■‘A project is a group of interrelated activities and 
             results with a unified purpose, together with the 
             resources and time frame to achieve them’ 
          Bibby and Alder 2003: 4                                                     6