In what way is the Programme going to simultaneously improve livelihood and the natural resources conditions?
Ans. The Programme will use existing linkages between poverty and environment in the four sites to improve the Programme’s own interventions as well as garner support for livelihoods and conservation interventions by specialized partner agencies and other Programme stakeholders. Linkages between poverty and environment work in the following sense: it has been empirically observed that as real incomes decline there is an intensification of activities that are damaging to the environment. In this manner, as the environment is degraded in one area, such activities invariably expand to other ecologically fragile areas. Once specific linkages are observed within clusters of villages and ecosystem types, the Programme will act at several levels. First, the Programme’s own interventions will be better targeted, e.g., provision of fuel efficient stoves where they are most urgently needed. Second, designs for interventions will be refined, as will Programme activities within the relevant interv
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