Natural Resource Management Program

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The key objective of the Natural Resource Management Program (NRMP) is to develop, through the carrying out of specific actions, policies and mechanisms that would contribute to arrest the ongoing degradation of natural renewable resources over the longer term. It would be the first phase of a longer-term program and would be expected to generate the policy, institutional and technical base for future forest management and land titling investments in the Choco Region. Investments under the NRMP first phase would be confined to Western Colombia. NRMP consists of: (a) the development of a policy, information and institutional base for forest management, with a particular focus on the Choco Region; (b) the rehabilitation and protection of selected water catchment areas in the highlands; (c) the improved management of national parks; and (d) the strengthening of environmental/forestry education, training and research, and of Program management.