Sustainable Natural Resource Management (SDG 2, 13 & 15)
Program Goal
To restore degraded ecosystems and enhance sustainable natural resources management, governance and watersheds by adjacent communities.
Target Reach
20,000 Hectares of restored watersheds
Strategic Focus Areas
- Natural resource governance in:
- Establish watershed platforms
- Establish Natural Resources Mgt committees
- Establish sub-watershed committees with most interested stakeholders,
- Develop watershed & sub-watershed visions and action plans,
- Facilitate and promote the implementation of the sub-watershed action plans,
- Strengthening the functioning of the watershed platform
- Facilitate and promote the implementation of the watershed action plan
- Watershed restoration, and land regeneration, conservation and environmental stewardship in:
- Organize/coordinate collective and group/site restoration activities
- Establishing tree nurseries in every targeted village/restoration hotspot
- Coordinating group restoration efforts and monitoring progress
- Facilitate scaling-out of collective actions to tackle land degradation
- Promoting the implementation of both sub-watershed and watershed-level visions
- Promoting natural resource benefit sharing
Current / Previous Project(s)
Flagship Project: CommonGround – Pathway 2 (2022–2026)
This project Focusses on restoring and converting 12,500 ha farmland converted to sustainable use.
There exists investment opportunities to:
- Collective action for watershed restoration,
- Empowering communities and (sub-)watershed stakeholders for effective governance.
- Restoring the upstream (steepest and most erosion- prone) watersheds, by means of concrete (sub-)watershed management plans
- Conserve/Convert 150,000ha degraded ecosystems to sustainable use.
