Bio-diversity

Project Location:Drazo-Zaman abad-Biarjomand-Semnan(36.190796-55.895691) Project background: As part of the ICCA initiative and the IUCN/CEESP partnership with GEF SGP, SGP Iran is promoting the tribal fund registrations, right issues and livelihood initiatives working with the Abolhassani Tribe in partnership with Cenesta. The site is located near Zamanabad, one of the sites of Cheetah Habitat in Touran. As the Abolhassani tribe has kept the traditional governance structure and also the distance between the summer and winter groundings is relatively short and only 80 kms chances of success in territory management still exists. Project outputs are: Abolhassani Nomads Tribe territory Management (ICCA) Dealing with climate change effects and defining a life cycle for agriculture and pasture management Liveihood activities and establishing a revolving fund Increasing the number of tribe people benefiting from the agriculture/pasture life cycle Rehabilitation of the Qanat By Cenesta: o Developing a baseline o Developing an English Newsletter with every payment o Performing an study on the Sangsari Tribe and publish the documentation o Developing short clips for documentation o Assist the tribe in the project work

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