Resources management

This report aims to provide proper guidelines and mechanisms for communities, to enable them to manage and sustain the current positive trends into the future. The recommended issues and concerns articulated by the stakeholders have been considered as priority components while formulating the “Exit Plan” of the Community Based Haor and Floodplain Resource Management Projects of SEMP.

This approach for project piloting also considered sustainability issues for each and every individual activity through participation of Community Based Organizations formed under the project. This report will describe the approach and methodology in brief adopted for planning, implementation and demonstration of various activities in the five different wetland areas in the country.

The present report compiles the awareness raising initiatives taken under the Community Based Haor Resource Management project, a component of the SEMP. It details out the justification of such interventions, approaches considered and the chosen activities to enhance people’s awareness level at the project areas in the haor basin. A number of recommendations are also suggested to make the initiative more participatory and effective in attaining the targeted impacts.

The present publication registers a brief delineation of actions fielded for wetland’s resource management with the local communities under the SEMP components till June 2005. In some case the reporting time vary which is duly mentioned. The principal approach of the projects and the project sites descriptions are followed by descriptions of different project interventions along with brief comments on the impacts they have created on the environment and on the local communities or beyond.

Overall objectives of the report as outlined in the Program Support Document (PSD) are to improve environmental quality of the country coupled with sustainable development, poverty alleviation and capacity building for better environmental management. This Project implementation Plan (PIP) was developed using the Logical framework Analyses (LFA) which sets out the benchmarks and indicators against which the outputs can be measured.

Value is a practical guide that explains the most important steps and techniques for the valuation of ecosystem services, and the incorporation of its results in decision making. It explains, step by step, how to generate persuasive arguments for more sustainable and equitable development decisions in water resources management.

Estudios de caso elaborados por las organizaciones participantes en el Proyecto Incidencia para la Gestión Ambiental con Enfoque de Equidad, con el propósito de presentar los procesos desarrollados a partir de talleres sobre manejo de cuencas hidrográficas, biodiversidad y ecosistemas de tierra seca. El Proyecto fue ejecutado por la Oficina de la Consejera Mundial de Género de UICN, con el apoyo de las Oficinas de Meso y Sur América de esta organización y la cooperación de HIVOS.