THE PROJECT – WHAT DO WE DO?
This is a
five year (1998-2002) project, with 12.5 million dollar GEF funding at sizeable
national baseline activity. The
project was developed through participatory processes at central and district
levels, and is implemented through national execution modalities in the
environmental sector.
The project
works with communities and with district policy initiatives that affect forest
and wetland resources in the four cross-border sites.
In addition, the project looks at central government policy issues which
influence the conservation of biodiversity at local levels.
This includes
incentives and disincentives for conservation, both fiscal and non-fiscal,
including access, tenure and a greater awareness of options and alternatives for
sustainable resource use. The project has two main objectives, stemming directly
from the problem analysis. These
are:-
a)
Creating
an enabling environment in which government agencies and communities can jointly
regulate resource use. This
has four outputs: addressing government agency capacity, community capacity, the
policy institutional environment and addressing cross border conservation
issues.
b) Balancing the supply and demand factors that impact on
biodiversity conservation and wise use.
This has four
distinct outputs: addressing the need for a participatory management strategy
and action plan process for the sites of biodiversity interest, looking at
alternative ways of using biodiversity resources, land-use options and
livelihoods, and considering the broader planning perspective of District
Environmental Plans, Pastoralist Strategies etc.
The Project is aware that it cannot accomplish all of this single handed,
indeed a key component of GEF project planning is the building of linkages to
other government and donor supported initiatives.
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