Adaptive Management Software for Conservation Projects

On these pages, you will find resources, news and information that will help you quickly become proficient in Miradi - an easy-to-use software program designed by conservation practitioners, for conservation practitioners.

Miradi - a Swahili word meaning "project" or "goal" – was built as an open source tool to help conservation practitioners to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their projects to more effectively meet their conservation goals and objectives. Miradi fully supports The Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Action Planning (CAP) process and the Conservation Measures Partnership’s Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation including steps such as:

• defining the project scope
• assessing the viability of focal conservation targets
• creating conceptual models to assess the social, economic and cultural context
• prioritizing threats
• developing objectives and actions
• creating results chains to clarify and test assumptions about strategies
• designing and tracking measures of strategy effectiveness.

Miradi will help you manage and store the information generated as you plan and adaptively implement your project. In addition to project planning, Miradi supports the development of annual and long-term work plans, budgets, and other tools.

Miradi is a not-for-profit venture between the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP – which includes TNC as a core member) and Benetech, a non-profit software company.