Conservation practitioners in TNC and other conservation organizations around the world are investing heavily in developing policy strategies. With this in mind, TNC partnered with Foundations of Success to develop a framework for measuring the policy component of TNCs non-place based conservation strategies. We held a meeting in December 2005 to discuss this framework and how we might apply it to meet TNCs needs. An initial draft of this document served as background material for that meeting; this draft reflects some comments and ideas that were made at the meeting.