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The goal of this study is to contribute to
enhanced sustainable livelihood opportunities and reduced
vulnerability for poor rural people in upper catchments in
Nepal and India. This will be achieved through improved understanding
of existing linkages or limitations to couple forest and water
management leading to policy support to the respective governments
on appropriate institutional frameworks and to program support
for implementing agencies.
This project intends to directly support the
opportunities for poor women’s and men’s food security
and improved livelihoods based on community-managed water
and forest resources focusing on rainfed agriculture, harvesting
of common property resources, small-scale irrigation systems,
spring-fed drinking water supply, community forestry, and
watershed management in one sub-basin (50-100 km2) covering
5 communities each in the Nepal and Uttaranchal. Internal
and external linkages among multiple communities within the
sub-basin will be addressed.
The specific objectives of the study are as
follows:
- Identify innovative policy and legal measures
and their associated institutional structures that permit
integrated forest and water resource management in Nepal
and Uttaranchal state in India.
- Promote opportunities to strengthen livelihoods
based on forest and water resources in two Himalayan sub-basins
through assessment of present use and analysis of constraining
and facilitating factors for enhancing water and forest
productivity.
- Examine expanded mandates for local CBINRM
institutions by strengthening users’ roles and linkages
with external resources leading to integrated water resources
management and sub-basin level planning.
- Assess and determine mechanisms to scale
up integrated water and forest management at the catchment
level.
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