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Resource Management:
Building community capacity to manage resources. The activities
that we undertake under this objective include:
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Supporting
communities in making compartment wise resource management
microplans.
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Fire control: The
studies being undertaken under this head are to be used to
create a counter strategy to clear misconceptions on the issue
that the data reveals.
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Training on
monitoring methodologies including those for regeneration and
use of biomass for commercial and subsistence purposes.
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Ecosystem Services:
The Western Himalayan Ecoregion (WHE) is vital to India as a
provider of ecosystem services. Firstly the productivity and
sustenance of the Gangetic plains are largely dependent for
regulated supply of soil fertility and water on the ecosystem
subsidy of the WHE. The continuation of which is largely
dependent on the ecological health of this region. It is likely
that the community will in due course be compensated for any
efforts that they undertake to ensure continuation of this
subsidy. Secondly the project is also working with the objective
of sensitising communities and making them aware of a potential
role they can play in a future where global trade in carbon will
become a reality.
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Technical Training:
Directed towards creation of technical and administrative
capacity to manage production for existing economic programmes
and also build capacities for the community training activities
undertaken.
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Part of the training
efforts are also directed towards improving interaction between
the community and the forest department. ATI efforts are
directed towards working at policy level changes that will
improve access for community institutions to the forest
department training facilities and institutionalise information
and activity exchange. ATI is also involved in assessing
relevant portions of the law and their impact on community
participation for conservation related activities. |
