Community-based Integrated Ecosystem Management

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The Community Action Program Project (CAP) for Niger is, by and large a natural resource management project, co-financed by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). Its development objectives aim at sustained poverty reduction and improved local governance through empowering communities and local governments, to improve natural resources and ecosystem management, and to raise the levels of health, education, and food security, thereby stimulating economic growth. These goals will be achieved through local-level capacity building efforts and implementation of demand-driven micro-projects. The CAP explicitly aimed at supporting Niger's emerging process of decentralization by given communities the responsibility and resources for local development and by providing local governments with the means and administrative capacity to support the communities to which they are accountable. The global environmental objective of the project is to promote community-based integrated ecosystem management as a means of reducing the region's vulnerability to desertification and poverty, while fostering the multiple global environmental benefits such as reduction of vulnerability to climate change and conservation of biodiversity and agro-biodiversity.