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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