📋 Tender Overview
Country:China
Area Of Work:Biodiversity
Grant Amount:US$ 50,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:US$ 16,393.44
Co-Financing in-Kind:US$ 38,797.80
Project Number:CPR/SGP/OP7/Y4/STAR/BD/2023/07
Status:Not active yet
Based on visits to Datong community, the project aims to understand and familiarize with surrounding communities, assisting residents in repelling wildlife causing accidents. Through community empowerment, it aims to incubate and cultivate community environmental self-organizations. It will conduct community co-management and agreement protection, establish and consolidate community conservation areas, expand protection areas, and promote community participation in conservation efforts. At the same time, it will respond to the needs of residents for development and livelihoods by exploring win-win approaches to improve residents' livelihoods and protect the environment through sustainable ecological planting, community ecotourism, and nature education. This will promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of communities, fostering harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
Main Problems:
1. Difficulties in reaching administrative lawenforcement
2. Traditional resource utilization behaviors exist in surrounding communities within the protected area
3. There are many communities and intersections around the protected area, leading to significant human interference
4. Local residents need alternative livelihood options
5. The protected area is relatively small, leading to habitat fragmentation for wildlife
Solutions:
Specific work solutions:
1. Community foundation work:
1.1 Community visits
1.2 Building good community relationships
2. Community co-management and agreement protection work:
2.1 Community empowerment and cultivation of community self-organization
2.2 Community co-management or agreement protection
3. Community alternative livelihood projects:
3.1 Establishment of Qingmei public welfare planting base
3.2 Community nature education and ecotourism
Anticipated results/outcomes:
1. Through community interviews, conducting Good Neighbor Public Welfare activities, and installing wildlife deterrent devices, the awareness of biodiversity conservation, especially the protection of wildlife, among villagers in Datong Village will be enhanced, and the support rate for conservation efforts will reach 90%.
2. The self-management and community co-management capacity of the Datong community conservation area will be enhanced, the system and mechanism for community self-organization will be improved, and the Datong community conservation area will be successfully registered under the Indigenous and Community Conserved Area (ICCA) system supervised by UNEP, gaining more social recognition. Effective protection of the forest ecosystem will cover an area of 1330 hectares. By patrolling and promoting awareness, human threats such as hunting, illegal collection, and illegal entry into the core a
