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23. Resources management for sustainable livelihoods

Full Title:

Linking Community-Based Water and Forest Management for Sustainable Livelihoods of the Poor in Fragile Upper Catchments of the Indo-Gangetic Basin

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The goal of this study is to contribute to enhanced sustainable livelihood opportunities and reduced vulnerability for poor rural people in upper catchments in Nepal and India. This will be achieved through improved understanding of existing linkages or limitations to couple forest and water management leading to policy support to the respective governments on appropriate institutional frameworks and to program support for implementing agencies.

This project intends to directly support the opportunities for poor women’s and men’s food security and improved livelihoods based on community-managed water and forest resources focusing on rain-fed agriculture, harvesting of common property resources, small-scale irrigation systems, spring-fed drinking water supply, community forestry, and watershed management in one subbasin (50–100 km2) covering five communities each in Nepal and Uttaranchal. Internal and external linkages among multiple communities within the subbasin will be addressed.

The specific objectives of the study are as follows:

1. Identify innovative policy and legal measures and their associated institutional structures that permit integrated forest and water-resources management in Nepal and the Uttaranchal State in India.
2. Promote opportunities to strengthen livelihoods based on forest and water resources in two Himalayan subbasins through assessment of present use and analysis of constraining and facilitating factors for enhancing water and forest productivity.
3. Examine expanded mandates for local CBINRM institutions by strengthening users’ roles and linkages with external resources leading to IWRM and subbasin level planning.
4. Assess and determine mechanisms to scale up integrated water and forest management at the catchment level.