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INRM (Integrated Natural Resource Management)

Key message: Improving livelihoods, especially of marginalized groups including women, through better natural resource governance.

Description

The North West Frontier Province (NWFP) is classified as the poorest province in Pakistan, have a 42% poverty incidence and characterized by a high dependence on its natural resources base to fulfil livelihood needs. Factors such as high population density in rural areas, low literacy rate, limited cultivalbe land and gender disparities in terms of participation of women, especially in resource management - increasingly exert pressure on the province's fragile resource base.The Project will be implemented in the three districts.
The goal of the project is: to improve livelihoods, especially of marginalized groups including women, through better natural resource governance.
The pupose is: multi-partner, integrated natural resource management in and around designated forest areas, promoted, and learning internalized.

Local partner: NWFP Forest Department through Forest Management Centre (FMC), Peshawar Other Government line agencies (Agriculture department, district government) in respective districts

Fact sheet

Type: Trust fund project
Start: 2006 End: 2011 Status: Current

Region: South Asia

Country: Pakistan

Working domain: Local Governance and Civil Society

Key topic: Political decentralization | Local governance | Self-help groups and CBOs | Land use & land tenure | Agro-silvo-pastoral systems management | Participatory methods | Gender balanced development

Staff

Responsible at Head Office: Philippe Vaneberg

Contact

Address:
IC Delegation Office House 60, street 9, Sector GIII, Phase II Hayatabad Peshawar
Pakistan

Phone: ++92 91 5830416,5830254,5829817 Fax: ++92 91 5829594

E-Mail: icpak@intercooperation.org.pk

Website: www.intercooperation.org.pk/inrmp.htm

Resp. for this entry: nmerky

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