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Goals and Objectives

To develop Policy and Institutions for Participatory Eco-System Management; Community-based Environmental Sanitation; Advocacy and Awareness; and Training and Education.

SEMP will support community capacities for sustainable management of environmental resources and strengthen the capacity of the public sector to develop new framework for policy development in support of enhanced community participation, protection of the environment, and sustainable management of the country’s environment and natural resources. SEMP targeted resource user communities and stakeholders, particularly women, in eco-specific intervention areas. Community-based haor resources management component is being implemented by the IUCN-Bangladesh in association with CNRS in Sunamgonj (Pangner haor and Sanuar haor) and Moulvibazar (Hakaluki Haor) districts. The project includes natural resource management and awareness building activities with the participation of haor resource users and stakeholders at local level.

CNRS has produced different awareness materials for the local communities and secondary stakeholders. CNRS has also been involved in producing socio-economic baseline survey reports, maps on haor resource usage pattern in the project sites, writing and analyzing case studies and project site profile development. CNRS project team produced awareness materials and reports that have information. These are now used by the concerned organizations.

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Goals and Objectives

To promote environmentally sound management of wetland resources (fish, aquatic vegetation, other wetland products and water) for the sustainable supply of food to the poor of Bangladesh.

The project is being implemented by three local NGOs in Hail haor in Sreemongal, Turag-Bangshi floodplain in Kaliakoir and Kangshaw-Malijhi floodplain in Sherpur district. The project has some basic components, such as awareness building micro-credit and development of resources base community organizations. The MACH ‘community’ includes all of those people dependent either economically or nutritionally on the floodplain and its products.

CNRS is mainly responsible for natural resource management and project impact monitoring. CNRS was also involved in organizing the wetland and watershed communities in to resource management groups and build consensus among the users and stakeholders towards conservation, protection and sustainable management of natural resources. They plan, design and implement all resource management interventions along with the communities including environmental awareness building activities. In addition, they are responsible for internal program monitoring for both biological and social impacts.

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Natural Resource System Programme (NRSP) of Department For International Development (DFID), UK

Goals and Objectives

The goal of the project is to maximize joint benefits from fish and crops through adoption of improved IFM strategy.

CNRS as the lead organization sets an aim to promote the Integrated Floodplain Management (IFM) options among the wider floodplain stakeholders. The project is being implemented in Charan floodplain of Kalihati Upazila in Tangail district. This is being achieved by adaptive testing of IFM options: Cropping Pattern Management, Effort Control, Sluice Gate Management and Land Retirement. Afterwards, the project assessed impacts and disseminated massages to wider audiences at various hierarchies including the policy stakeholders, intermediaries and practitioners through media.

CNRS has developed strategies to improve resource use patterns in floodplains through Participatory Action Plan Development (PAPD) workshop for sorting out the integrated floodplain resource management options. In addition, CNRS raised awareness through planning and development of communications with community level decision makers to he national level policy makers.

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Goals and Objectives

The overall goal of the project is to establish and demonstrate an innovative system for management of ECAs in Bangladesh.

The project is being implemented by the Department of Environment (DoE), Ministry of Environment & Forest in cooperation with five NGOs. The project is supporting DoE efforts to operationalize the Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) concept at two main sites: Cox’s Bazar (which includes three ECAs) within the country’s long and biodiversity-rich coastal zone and Hakaluki haor at one of the largest and most important of the country’s many inland freshwater wetlands.

CNRS is working to mobilize the communities towards ECA management living in and around the Hakaluki haor in association with two other local NGOs namely IDEA and PROCHESTA. The activities include community-led Participatory Action Plan Development (PAPD), for formation of Village Conservation Groups (VCGs) and capacity building for the local institutions. CNRS is also responsible for developing community led urgent conservation measures through consultation process.

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Goals and Objectives

To develop a workable model for conservation and management of floodplain wetland resources through ecological processes, which the local communities can largely manage by themselves.

CBWM Programme has emphasized on four major components: (1) Participatory Planning, Management and Monitoring (2) Restoration and enhancement of wetland ecosystems (3) Environmental education and information dissemination (4) Institution building. The project has been implemented at seven different locations in four districts of Bangladesh. These are: Tangail, Kishoregonj, Brahmanbaria and Sunamgonj. Based on the results, success and experiences of that, a five yearlong project was developed.

CNRS developed baseline socioeconomic and biophysical characterization of the project sites, which includes social, ecological and biological attributes. CNRS was involved in developing workable approaches of community-based conservation and management of wetland bio-diversity. CNRS also developed guidelines for Government, NGOs and communities on water management practices for the economic use and protection of valuable wetland resources.

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Department For International Development (DFID) UK

Goals and Objectives

To improve the livelihoods of poor people dependent of aquatic resources by developing, testing and assessing arrangements of user-based (community and group based) fisheries management across the diversity of inland fisheries in Bangladesh.

CNRS has been implementing the project jointly by local partner NGOs, WorldFish center and Department of Fisheries (DoF) of Government of Bangladesh. As of now the project covers a total of 115 water bodies that include 38 rivers, 14 closed beels, 28 open beels, 27 flood plains and 8 small beels to implement the following three CBFM approaches: (1) Fisher Managed Fisheries, (2) Community based fisheries and (3) Women managed/led fisheries. CNRS has been working in 47 water bodies in 6 different clusters where a total of 57 fisher groups with the 1307 members, 43 Beel Management Committees (BMC), 21 Resource Management Committees (RMC) and 83 Village Committees (VC) were formed. Moreover, CNRS has established 16 fish sanctuaries covering 5.85 ha land out of 920.97 ha water area.

CNRS has demonstrated extensive ground level activities in the project sites. These are: desiltation of degraded water bodies to facilitate fish migration, organic farming, participatory monitoring and evaluation, provided credit for Income Generating Activities (IGA). A series of workshops were arranged to demonstrate institutional capacity building In addition, CNRS has conducted several other assignments like Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping for endangered species, biological studies/research, developed methods by ensuring community participation for sustainable management aquatic floodplain resources.

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Goals and Objectives

To promote sustainable management of wetland ecosystems under multiple use regimes in Bangladesh.

CNRS is working for sea turtle conservation in St. Martin’s islands, Shaparir dwip, Inanai, Moheshkhali and Kutubdia of Cox’s Bazar district.

CNRS has conducted sea turtle resource assessment, turtle conservation through in-situ and ex-situ activities, awareness rising through on sea turtle conservation and biology, nesting site survey and mapping in the southeastern coastline of Bangladesh. Also CNRS has developed information package on sea turtles in the form of reports, posters and booklets for wider dissemination among the stakeholders.

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To promote sustainable management of wetland ecosystems under multiple use regimes in Bangladesh.

The broad objective of the project was to understand the wetland ecosystem - local communities - stakeholders and conceptualize problem/management issues of the Hakaluki haor. The project was implemented in 5 upazilas’ of Mouluvibazar and Sylhet district of Bangladesh.

CNRS has Prepared a comprehensive profile on the Biological and socioeconomic characterization of Hakaluki Haor wetland, based on biological and socioeconomic surveys. The profile included all relevant natural resource database, resource harvesting and management systems.

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Learning and communication materials on Consensus Building for Management of Common Property Resources (CPRs)

To develop participatory learning and communication materials on consensus building among multiple stakeholders in managing wetlands CPRs.

Develop participatory learning and communication materials on consensus building among multiple stakeholders in managing wetlands CPRs. The material will be prepared based on previous works supported by DFID and other donors in Bangladesh.

CNRS has developed a resource pack on participatory consensus building with illustration and simple texts for the use of the Government & NGO staff involved at the grass roots development activities relevant to wetland resources. The resource pack is prepared both in English as well as in Bengali language

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Marine Resource and Hilsa Spawning Impact Assessment Between Nijhum Dwip and Hatia South

To determine the contributions and extent of marine Hilsha spawning in the area and to estimate the depletion of marine resource

CNRS has assessed the degree of dependency of the local community on the Hilsha fishery and likely impact on their livelihoods due to proposed interventions.

CNRS developed socio-economic site profile and comprehensive report on hilsha fishery of the area for the use of concerned department and agencies including (Integrated Coastal Zone Management) ICZM officials.

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Conservation of Wetlands and Biodiversity through Generation of Environmental Awareness

The goal is to restore the swamp forest in haor areas. The main objective of the project to demonstrate the process swamp forest restoration in haor area of Bangladesh

Generate environmental awareness among the resource users, school children and other stakeholders in the floodplain and coastal wetlands. Demonstrate sea turtle conservation in situ and ex situ in the coastal areas. Develop awareness materials for various audiences in Cox's Bazar, Moulvibazar, Sunamgonj, Tangail and Gazipur Districts

CNRS has demonstrated in-situ and ex-situ sea turtle conservation in the coastal areas and pilot swamp forest restoration at haor Basin. The project was implemented in 8 upazilas under 6 districts (unknown yet). CNRS develop awareness materials for various audiences and implemented sea turtle conservation program. Also developed and published various environmental awareness and educational materials for intermediaries and communities.

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Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Planning in the South-central Coastal Area of Bangladesh

To set a long-term biodiversity conservation plan of actions. The project had the objectives to monitor ecological, biological and socioeconomic condition for generating database on the coastal biodiversity; understanding existing resource utilization pattern and problems and constraints of production systems, public awareness and long-term project development for coastal biodiversity conservation.

CNRS developed a coastal site profile incorporating all biological and ecological attributes as well as socioeconomic activities of the coastal communities in the project site.

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The purpose of the project was to conduct socio-economic and flood vulnerability survey in two flood-prone areas for the Food Proofing Project of CARE.

CNRS has developed baseline and seasonal profiles based on the survey findings that incorporate all the relevant data regarding the issues of socioeconomic and flood vulnerability of char lands of project sites.

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To develop an inventory on water resources to help better understanding of the beels as well as the types and availability of other water resources in project villages

The project included the activities relating to conceptualize the social and economic factors, which influence the communities’ resource use. The project was implemented in Tangail and Rajshahi districts of Bangladesh.

CNRS conducted Household fish consumption monitoring, problem census, participatory floodplain management planning along with various stakeholders groups who are the users and managers of natural resources in the area. CNRS has also developed fishing and fish consumption profiles of the two project sites.

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To collect qualitative and quantitative data for developing information on selected environmental components that likely to be affected by the IFFD schemes.

The project activities were designed to provide inputs for policy options and modification of schemes to make future IFFD projects environmentally more sound and sustainable, create a database on selected environmental parameters for future use by IFFD and other interested parties.

CNRS has performed selection of road alignments, selection of project impact area and monitoring sites, conducted baseline and post-intervention monitoring of variables related to capture fisheries, agricultural resources and settlement assets. CNRS has also developed the site profile including social, economic and environmental factors to monitor the environmental impact for rural road development. Environmental impact report on fisheries and agriculture was produced on the basis of monitoring data.

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The purpose was to conduct baseline socio-economic and flood vulnerability survey in two selected flood-prone charlands in Kurigram and haor of Netrokona disricts areas of Bangladesh.

CNRS has conducted household census survey, developed questionnaires and FGD checklist FGD sessions, case studies and mapping. Based on the outputs, CNRS has developed baseline socioeconomic profile of the project sites.

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The purpose of the project was to develop environmental impact monitoring design for environmental impact assessment of rural roads constructed by CARE Bangladesh in the nearby the natural resource reservoirs like beels haor and river. Project locations (unknown).

CNRS has developed environmental monitoring design with a detailed protocol including monitoring forms for their impact monitoring study of the rural road improvement schemes. CNRS also developed environmental monitoring design protocol for CARE-Bangladesh.

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The project was jointly implemented by CNRS and PROSHIKA in Tangail, Kishoregonj and Brahmanbaria districts of Bangladesh.

CNRS has developed a concept of environmentally sustainable aquatic resource management with the active participation of local communities. CNRS also prepared quality reports on site profile and results of fish habitat restoration for the stakeholders.

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