Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihoods Improvement

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The objective of the Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihoods Improvement Project for India is to develop and promote new models of conservation at the landscape scale through enhanced capacity and institution building for mainstreaming biodiversity conservation outcomes. There are four components to the project. The first component of the project is demonstration of landscape conservation approaches in two pilot sites: this component will develop tools, techniques, knowledge and skills towards improved conservation and rural livelihoods outcomes in the little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat and Askot in Uttarakhand; the second component to the project is to strengthening knowledge management and national capacity for landscape conservation: this component will support improved knowledge and capacity building on learning and experience from the two demonstration landscapes and other local conservation models; the third component of the project is to scaling up and replication of successful models of conservation in additional landscape sites: this component would support the further testing and replication of landscape conservation approaches to two additional high biodiversity landscapes from the third year onwards with project financing; and the fourth component of the project is to national coordination for landscape conservation: this component will support coordination for landscape conservation at the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF).