Bio-diversity

To promote wise use of water resources and adopt watershed management techniques to recharge the groud water resources. Project goals or objectives (including GEF problem-area addressed by projects) are to demonstrate potentially successful strategies for organizing village level Communities; Federate the village level communities into an area organization to address and prioritize complex issues related to combating desertification; Acquisition of information of groundwater resources and efficient utilization of irrigation water and development of interventions through active participation of communities and local experts; and Provide technical and credit support to the interested individuals and communities for introduction of interventions related to sustainable agriculture and combating desertification. Activities to be carried out under project include Social mobilization and organization of local communities; Federation of local communities into an area organization; Identification of problems related to sustainable agriculture and combat desertification using community dialogues, participatory appraisals, and technical diagnostic surveys; Design of interventions related to sustainable agriculture and combat desertification to suit the individual and community needs; The proposed project would lead towards changes in attitudes of the communities in understanding of desertification problems and change their existing fanning practices through translating and/or integrating conservation into production or income generation. Reduction in pumping and increased groundwater recharge would result to impacts leading towards sustainable groundwater utilization.

Pakistan