Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

TA 4541: Natural Resources Management and Poverty Reduction - Afghanistan
Financed by Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

The TA is a pilot project that addresses basic social and economic needs of communities in buffer-zones of protected areas by implementing activities and providing incentives to reduce poverty and promote conservation of natural resources and wildlife in selected protected areas by:

1. participatory needs assessment
2. development of integrated package of assistance
3. building institutional mechanisms for sustainability

The major activities of this TA include the following:

• Conduct scientific assessments of biodiversity resources in protected areas, and prepare management plans for the six sites
• Enhance institutional capacity for protected area management
• Conduct participatory assessments to develop a strategy to reduce poverty and protect natural resources
• Pilot alternative livelihood schemes and social protection measures
• Enhance food security by increasing range of food
• Contract with NGO through Micro Finance Investment and Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA)
• Prepare a gender strategy

• TA Report
• News Report