Protected Areas Management Project

The project will improve the participatory planning and management of three priority protected areas -- Hingol, Machiara and Chitra Gol National Parks -- across a range of ecosystem types. It will strengthen park management through elaborating detailed management plans, improving park infrastructure and protection, restoring key ecosystem components and degraded sites, and conducting targeted biodiversity research and monitoring. It will support conservation-compatible economic activities, and integrate local communities and authorities and the private sector in park management through advisory committees whose role is to integrate park activities into overall development planning. Finally, it will pursue a public awareness campaign and human resource development for park management staff.