People Partner with Nature for sustainable Living
Integrating livelihood for Conservation- Phase III (2022-2025)
The Program People Partner with Nature for Sustainable
Living (PPN) is a conservation initiative focused on fostering robust civil
societies engaged in the sustainable management and preservation of tropical
forest ecosystems, while also enhancing livelihoods in forest-adjacent
communities across Kenya, Uganda, and Nepal. Launched in 2015 with funding from
CISU, this program has successfully completed two phases. With the financial
support from DANIDA/ CISU, Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN), Nature Kenya, and Nature
Uganda, in partnership with Dansk Ornitologisk Forening (DOF) are implementing
a 4 years programme in Nepal, Kenya and Uganda. In Nepal, the program is being
implemented within the Resunga and Madane Forest conservation areas of Gulmi,
where Resunga Forest holds designation as an Important Bird and Biodiversity
Area (IBA), while Madane Forest is recognized as a potential IBA.
This program aims at conserving forest sites and
creating sustainable benefits for biodiversity, people and climate. Expected
outcomes for the third phase (2022-2025) include:
· Enhanced sustainability and climate
change resilience of local community land-use and livelihood.
· Maintained or improved conservation
status of PPN forests, and
· Improved basis for sustainability
and upscaling of Participatory Forest Management (PFM).
Central to our approach is the active engagement and
empowerment of local communities and Local Conservation Groups (LCGs) ensuring
that they are integral to the conservation process. Furthermore, all our
initiatives are firmly grounded in scientific research, which guides our
decision-making, shapes our actions on the ground, and informs policy and
advocacy efforts.
The PPN Program thus continues in a third phase to
work towards securing long-term conservation of crucial biodiversity and at the
same time long-term supply of forest resources and ecosystem benefits to forest
adjacent communities.