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10 tools 3 playbooks

Everything here has survived contact with reality. I use a framework in production at least three times before I publish it.

Governance and coordination

  1. The Cooperation Table Blueprint

    Full replication guide for multi-stakeholder conservation platforms: governance architecture, constitutive agreements, management model.

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  2. The Governance Canvas

    Design a multi-stakeholder platform on one page. The visual framework distilled from the cooperation-table work.

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  3. The First 90 Days

    A week-by-week operator's playbook for launching a governance platform. Who to call, what to ask, what to do when things break.

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  4. Power Mapping for Conservation Platforms

    Map formal authority, practical influence, and four dimensions of power before you convene.

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Finance and funding

  1. The DFI Decoder

    What grant reviewers actually evaluate. Before-and-after framing of the same project for GEF, IDB, and EU mechanisms.

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  2. The Direct Recipient Roadmap

    What an organization needs to graduate from sub-awardee to direct DFI recipient. Administrative capacity in practice, not in theory.

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  3. Direct Funding Readiness Score

    Fifteen questions that tell you whether a fund can receive direct DFI funding, and which gaps are blocking it.

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  4. Capital Stack Templates

    How conservation projects actually get financed. How concessional capital, first-loss layers, guarantees, and revenue stack.

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Trade and export

  1. EUDR From the Amazon Side

    An EUDR guide written by an exporter who shipped, not by a law firm. What traceability looks like at origin.

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  2. Seed to Shelf

    Every step from origin to European retail: certifications, timelines, costs, logistics. Built from doing it.

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Investor playbooks

  1. Territorial Trust Infrastructure Building legitimate value chains in the Amazon. Download PDF
  2. Strengthening Amazonian Governance Through Local Cooperation Tables How local cooperation tables hold a territory together. Download PDF
  3. Structuring Bankable Climate Projects An investor's playbook for regenerative growth in Ecuador. Download PDF

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