Methodology adopted by the project This project safeguards the rights of marginalized tribes by encouraging them to be co-partners in managing forest habitats and its native biological resources even as they adapt to improve their livelihood options. Proper recognition must be given to those tribes who need to build their capacity for rightly managing natural assets and to rise above their insecurities due to poverty. This project brings to focus the prototype of local initiatives specific to state conditions. It adapts measures learnt from lessons to prevent loss and manage resources to solve common needs for conservation. It also aims to be helpful in directing the course for other projects in future. The project is foreseen with two objectives: 1.
Facilitate integration of national and state policies to be more responsive in preserving the links among rural livelihoods, biodiversity conservation and forest protection measures.
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Enhance capacity of communities and institutions to adapt decentralized form of management including participation in decision-making process for ensuring equity, transparency and accountability.
Implementation of project components: a) Community-driven approaches piloted at local level demonstrate methods to get to the bottom of solving conservation measures that protect biodiversity and manage processes to sustain naturally-occurring resources for supporting alternative livelihoods. b)
Advocacy of piloted methods and tools to guide governing process of community-based institutions and integrate localized conservation and management actions with national and state policies oriented for community development. 23