Building Civil Society Support for Biodiversity Conservation through Environment Resource Networking
Background
The project will catalyze and support grassroots civil society engagement in the conservation of Bhutan's biodiversity. The project will support a network of Nature Clubs (NC) in all the dzongkhags. The Nature Clubs basically comprise of group of students (members) with a shared commitment to protecting their local environment and are coordinated by teachers. The members of each nature club will be encouraged and supported to take responsibility for monitoring and promoting the conservation of their local areas and important habitat linkages in their dzongkhag. In this way, they will take local action to deliver global conservation outcomes.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Nature (RSPN) will support the activities of the nature clubs by providing training and coordination. Furthermore, RSPN will assist the Nature Clubs to identify and undertake conservation actions for key biodiversity areas and important habitat linkages, with action grants and funds leveraged from small grant schemes. In this way, the project will empower them to address local conservation issues, thus contributing to their livelihood security and the conservation of global biodiversity.
The overall project goal is to foster public awareness, knowledge and participation in environment conservation by building grassroots civil society support for biodiversity conservation in Bhutan.
Objectives
The purpose of this project is to enhance civil society engagement in environment conservation throughout Bhutan.
The project has four expected outputs:
- Output 1: Network of 100 nature clubs supported and activated
- Output 2: Nature clubs trained in carrying out environmental monitoring and implementation of handbooks
- Output 3: Monitoring programs initiated by each Nature Club
- Output 4: Linkages and networking among the nature clubs and support groups established
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Bhutan
