How was CMP Established?
CMP has roots both in the conservation and donor communities. During the July 2002 annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, members of the USAID-funded Global Conservation Program in particular WWF-US, WCS and TNC called together conservation practitioners who shared similar questions and concerns about how we monitor and measure conservation success. Participating organizations included the CMP members listed above and additional conservation organizations and donors from the UK and US. Participants presented their work on M&E, impact assessment, and auditing, identified gaps in knowledge and practice, and planned for future collaboration to address pressing issues. The meeting proved timely, providing a much-needed forum to help coalesce work on M&E across the field of conservation and catalyzing collective action. Many individual organization efforts also led directly to the establishment of CMP. In particular, M&E and auditing efforts in TNC, WWF, WCS, CI, and FOS al
