Association for Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Development
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Our mission will be achieved through a series of activities under the different programmes that will be implemented in collaboration with key stakeholders. These include:
Programme |
Goal |
Target |
Activity |
Biodiversity Conservation Programme (BCP) |
Ensure the protection of wildlife species and their habitat |
By 2025 at least 3 protected areas are supported for sustainable management |
– Carry out surveys and monitoring of the protected areas – Carry out wildlife research – Assist in boundary opening, tracing and demarcation – Community sensitization – Recruit national and international volunteers to support research and ecotourism |
Ensure restoration of degraded landscape |
By 2025 at least 10 degraded water catchment, and forest in project areas are restored. |
– Setting up of tree nurseries, – Identify and Planting of environmental friendly tree in water catchments degraded areas in collaboration with stakeholders. |
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Regulate the unsustainable hunting and fishing of threatened wildlife and fresh water and marine species |
By 2025 Unsustainable hunting of and fishing of threatened wildlife and fresh water and marine species is reduced |
– Sensitization on illegal poaching and unsustainable fishing practices, – Creation and support local community governance structures to regulate illegal hunting of wildlife and unsustainable fishing practices – Establish a comprehensive database of species harvested |
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Rural Community and Livelihood Development programme
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Support rural community through development and alternative livelihood options |
By 2025 local communities adjacent to at least 3 protected areas and unprotected forest will be supported with prioritized livelihood and economic development options. |
– Setup a sustainable community development model, – Identify and prioritized alternative livelihood and economic options in target communities, – Support alternative livelihood option prioritized by the target communities. – Sensitize community members on value added chain of agricultural and Non Timber Forest Products. |
Ensure the promotion of fair and equitable sharing of the benefit arising from the utilization of genetic resources |
By 2025 communities around key project sites will be aware on fair and equitable sharing of the benefit arising from the utilization of genetic resources. |
– Sensitization of communities on the Assess and Benefit Sharing Initiative,
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By2025 at least one genetic resources will be identified and value chain developed |
– Identify natural resources for ABS – Training of community members on the sourcing, production and preservation of the resources. |
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Environmental Education and Community Outreach programme
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Promote sustainable environmental protection in schools and communities |
By 2025 Schools and communities are our project sites are equipped with the necessary skills and tools to ensure sustainable environment protection |
– Celebrate World International Days of Wildlife, Biodiversity and Environmental related events – Create and strengthened environmental clubs, – Involves students in outdoor environmental protection activities, – Support schools on environmental related activities carried out by clubs – Support schools with basic infrastructures and tools.
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Ensure volunteerism of project activities. |
By 2025, at least 100 national and international volunteers are recruited to support organizational programmes. |
– Recruit national and international volunteers to support programmes and project of the organization. |
Humanitarian programme
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Protect and respond to people affected by conflict, natural and man-made disasters.
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Affected people from conflict, natural and man-made disasters are responded to and protected. |
– Carry out rapid protection monitoring assessment. – Record individual incident of affected groups. – Provide humanitarian assistance such as food, water, medical supplies and shelter to people affected by conflict, man-made and natural disasters. – Support orphanages with basic needs and scholarships for orphans. – Support widows and women with income generation activities. |