Author Marc Hockings, Sue Stolton, Fiona Leverington, Nigel Dudley and José Courrau

Year of publication 2006

This Best Practice Guideline is not intended as a "how to" manual but rather to explain the steps in designing and conducting an assessment. It does so through the phases of first, defining assessment objectives, scope and resourcing; second, choosing and developing a methodology, including establishing an assessment team and defining indicators, third, implementing the assessment in the field and office; and lastly, interpreting, communicating and using results.