These guidelines are conceived to assist in the implementation of WOCAT at a regional/national level

• Getting started with WOCAT -
  Guidelines for Regional and National Initiatives
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• Démarrer avec WOCAT - Lignes directrices pour les initiatives nationales et régionales (pdf, 179 KB)
  
  
• Using WOCAT Data - Procedures for Selecting and Evaluating SWC Approaches and Technologies (pdf, 218 KB)
  

The WOCAT methodology and databases do not offer "plug-and-play" SWC solutions, where soil and water conservation technologies and approaches can be taken from one place and simply copied to another environment. But WOCAT provides a proven methodology and a tool to document and evaluate what one is doing in terms of soil and water conservation (technologies and approaches) as well as a means to compare ones own experience with that of others. The WOCAT network has got positive feedback from institutions that have indicated they find WOCAT useful in that respect. Therefore, WOCAT promotes first to carry out a proper self-evaluation, including taking stock of and documenting the scattered knowledge and identify strength and weaknesses from one's own SWC experiences. From our WOCAT perspective it is clear that if this self-evaluation has taken place, then people have much a better basis also to look into the experiences of others (documented in the WOCAT databases) and judge the strengths and weaknesses of those SWC Technologies and Approaches with regard to trying them or parts of them out in their own and bio-physical and socio-economic environment.