Pakistan: Forestry Sector Development
Forest resources represent only about 5% of the land area of Pakistan. Although they supply less than a quarter of the timber and fuel wood requirements, they play an important role in watershed protection and erosion control.
Models for participatory integrated natural resource management at community level were developed in various projects, such as the Dutch funded Social Forestry Project Malakand-Dir and the Siran Valley Development Project. Following the adoption of the Forestry Sector Master Plan by the Government of Pakistan in 1992, the ADB approved the preparation and implementation of a forestry sector project to apply these models for participatory natural resource management consistently in all forestry activities throughout the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Activities:
Participatory methods for integrated natural resource management were introduced at community level throughout NWFP. 25 sub-projects at sub-watershed level were prepared and implemented. DFFW staff was trained in these new approaches, and a natural resource management capacity was created at village level. For each ecological zone NRM intervention packages were identified and methodologies for integrated planning and implementation developed. Reforms of the forest legislation and of the institutional structure of the DFFW were carried out to support and manage community controlled natural resource management.
- Change of the existing forestry policy; reorganisation of the DFFW
- Prepare and implement 25 integrated resource management plans at sub-watershed level
- Organise about 350 village communities to prepare and implement Integrated Resource Management Plans
- Develop NRM intervention packages for forestry, range management and farm forestry of each ecological zone
- Prepare practical guidelines for field implementation for all interventions
- Provide guidelines for natural resources inventories at different levels to be used for planning of integrated resource management plans and to monitor implementation
- Elaborate small-scale interventions for training, demonstration and trial purposes
- Assist on developing training modules for integrated participatory resource management and for intervention implementation for DFFW staff, beneficiaries and NGOs
- Set up applied research components on topics such as natural resources product utilisation and
- marketing, wood marketing, and new natural resource interventions
Contract value: 306,000 Euro
Client: Department of Forests, Fisheries and Wildlife
Financed by: Asian Development Bank
Associated firms: DHV (lead), ITC
Period: 1996 - 2002