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Project Description
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Project Description
SUNGI Development Foundation is an NGO working in Hazara since 1992. SUNGI has developed a network of grass root partners in Hazara and established linkages with other NGOs, CBOs and public interest institutions in other parts of the country. SUNGI is working in the following sectors: Community, Institutional and gender development, natural resource management with main focus on conservation of bio-diversity, infrastructure, health and sanitation, training, savings and credit and action research and policy advocacy. Basic purpose of the project Conservation of Biodiversity through NRM and poverty alleviation is to raise public awareness on sustainable use of natural resources and to promote environmentally sound community based natural resource management systems to restore the natural ecological balance in ecologically degraded areas of the Hazara region. The project will support the management and sustainable utilization of local natural resources for conservation of biodiversity. The major activities are aimed at reviving indigenous varieties of agriculture, introducing income generation activities through credit for livestock, establishing seed clubs, providing training to farmers in forestry, land use planning, nursery raising, documentation of medicinal plants, and water harvesting and controlling soil erosion.
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