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Updates from the Projects |
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ToT with nine premier training institutes of India
A four-day Training of Trainers for effective delivery of courses on a holistic approach to human-wildlife conflict mitigation was organised virtually with Dale Carnegie and the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy from 11-14 May 2021.
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Strengthening alternative tools to manage FES
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Payment for ecosystem services is applied as an incentive-based mechanism to translate values of ecosystems into incentives for local actors for aiding in its improved flow and management. These can involve cash or in-kind payment for the service provider. The process is similar as buying any other product or service. The buyer is identified, the market conditions understood, and the service provider legally and institutionally recognised.
Widely integrating a variety of incentive-based mechanisms will act a means of motivating protection and restoration of other ecosystem services. In India, the state of Himachal Pradesh leads the development of a policy for payment for ecosystem services that was formulated in 2013. |
| Water source at Bohal, Himachal Pradesh ©GIZ/Aashima Negi |
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Stories and experiences from Bhitarkanika, Odisha
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In 2020, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic brought Devjani’s life to a standstill. Residents of Kendrapara district, Odisha, she and her husband, a daily wage labourer, began looking for alternate means of income to support their family of six. At the time, Devjani’s work in the local Self-Help Group had also slowed down, compelling them to live off little savings. Many daily wage labourers began returning to their work in the cities after the first wave, but the second wave of the pandemic has endangered lives and means of livelihood again.
Kendrapara is also home to the Bhitarkanika mangroves, a Ramsar wetland, and project pilot site where green recovery measures were initiated in January 2021 to support livelihoods, create avenues to generate income while focusing on conservation and ecosystem restoration in the longer run. |
| Vegetable garden at a village in Kedrapara district, Odisha ©GIZ/APOWA |
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New Releases and Resources |
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For more than two decades, the Wildlife Division of Himachal Pradesh Forest Department has been conducting the annual waterbird census. This training film follows them on their census exercise at the Pong dam wetland, showcasing the step-by-step process of conducting this exercise and its contribution towards better management of the wetland.
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| This brochure offers a quick glimpse of the new develop public private partnership project implemented by GIZ and AVT McCormick Ingredients Pvt Ltd, ‘Enhancement of Smallholder Spice Farmers’ Capacities in Sustainable Farming’, implemented in four Indian states: Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. |
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| This brief document gives a quick outline into the project's holistic approach, various frameworks, guiding elements to be considered and the flow of work towards preparing the national and state strategies and action plans, Standard Operating Procedures, guidelines and toolkits for human-wildlife mitigation in India. |
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