Projects

Follow up to West Tian Shan Biodiversity Conservation (Phase 2) Project

01.01.2004 - 29.07.2005

Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan

Overall project value (EUR)900000EURO
No. of staff provided18; Professional staff provided: 13
Name of ClientEU/TACIS
Financing agencyEuropean Union (EU)
Name of partnersARCADIS Euroconsult B.V. (The Netherlands); Mott MacDonald Ltd. (UK)
Detailed Narrative Description of ProjectN/A
Detailed Narrative Description of Services providedSpecific objectives of the project were: Develop socioeconomic opportunities for the village population: Identify and promote alternative income-generating activities (including eco-tourism activities) on the spot in order to focus interest of local communities away from the protected area; Setting up a sustainable service provider network able to respond to the range of requests expressed by the population in the project area; Increase opportunities for tourism in the project area and in the Trans-boundary Park area; Attract funds and donors’ attention to these remote and often vulnerable areas. Establish a transboundary park, clarifying legal land concepts and promote cross-border cooperation: Move forward to the setting-up of the Trans-boundary Park up to its incorporation into each national legislative agenda; Recognizing the role of the population in the protection of biodiversity within the further recognized limits of the Trans-boundary Park; Clarification of the status, rights, obligations and incentives for the recognized villages affecting the protected areas; establishment of contractual relations between the population and the local land management authorities within the limit of the West Tian Shan trans-Boundary Park; Encourage land law and land tenure reform for better land management; Promote regional activities on nature protection; Develop capacity building and develop participatory community decision making: Develop and implement with the local authorities, representatives of villages, selected NGOs a mutually accepted method of support to the socioeconomic development of those villages having a direct impact on the protected areas; Training, in each involved village, a core of committed representative citizens capable to embrace the full scope of the village potentials and constraints; Upgrade a multi-talented regional and national NGO team in mountains area development; Elaborate with the population of the villages, their representatives, the local authorities and interested NGOs priority village work plans.