Performance Evaluation

There is growing interest in understanding the impacts of investments made in conservation and natural resource management.  Our project team has a broad range of experience advising and evaluating corporate, foundation, NGO, and government agency projects and programs. Recent evaluations of conservation projects and programs include:

• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s grant-making partnerships with Southern Company, Power of Flight (US$ 2.6 million) and Longleaf Legacy (US$ 2.7 million) conservation portfolios in the southeastern United States

• United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Global Conservation Program, a central funding mechanism for USAID support to conservation in Africa, Asia, and Latin America ($72 million portfolio) – evaluation conducted in collaboration with ARD, Inc.

• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Marine Microbiology Initiative – an approximately US$ 83 million portfolio of grants that seek to rapidly accelerate the development of the field of marine microbial ecology.

• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s approximately US$ 114 million biodiversity conservation grant portfolio of the foundation’s Andes Amazon Initiative and a single US$ 40 million multi-faceted grant to Conservation International

• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s US$ 10 million grant-making partnership with Bonneville Power Authority, the Columbia Basin Water Transactions Program, to test private water transactions to improve native salmon habitat

• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s grant-making partnership with United States Bureau of Land Management, a US$ 27.5 million dollar portfolio of 179 projects in the western United States

• BP, American Electric Power, and PacifiCorp’s environmental venture capital investments to support a carbon offset project in Bolivia’s Noel Kempff National Park

• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Shell Marine Habitat Program, a US$ 5 million grant-making partnership with Shell Oil Company, including a portfolio of 150 coastal conservation projects throughout the Gulf of Mexico

With experience, HGA has developed a robust methodology for program evaluation that integrates thematic experts and consultation with clients to ensure our work maximizes practical value for the client.