Officials of Department of Environment, Forest and Climate
Change and Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development along
with project partners during a review and planning workshop on FBMP in Kohima.
- DIMAPUR — The
Forest and Biodiversity Management in the Himalaya (Nagaland) Project (FBMP)
funded by KfW (German Development Bank) conducted its annual review and
planning workshop at the Forest office complex in Kohima on February 24 and 25.
- An update from FBMP stated that project implementing
agencies including Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (DEFCC)
and Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development (NEPED) as well
as its partners namely Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Foundation for
Ecological Security (FES), Nagaland Bio-resource Mission (NBRM), Nagaland
Community Conserved Area Forum (NCCAF) and Nagaland State Biodiversity Board
(NSBB) participated in the review and planning workshop.
- It stated that Supongnukshi, chief conservator of forest and
project director, gave an overview of the project progress, while Libanthung
Lotha, commissioner and secretary and team leader of NEPED, and E Mhonbemo
Patton, principal secretary of DEFCC exhorted the participants and commended
the initiatives being taken up under the project.
- In his address, Patton stressed on community involvement in
planning and implementation with specified timeline, accountability, accurate
and factual reporting, financial prudency, convergence and encouraged the
project to develop indigenous desiccation methods for increasing the shelf life
of the products being developed by the SHGs as well as stressing on the
importance of documentation for posterity.
- The review and planning workshop was focused on conservation
measures activities to strengthen biodiversity management institutions through
implementing the provisions of Biodiversity Act, 2002 and reinforce
conservation in the community conserved areas.
- During the review, all the project implementing agencies and
project partners presented report on the progress of projects.
- Discussion on conservation measures and heritage sites was
led by Nand Kishor Agrawal, chief technical advisor of PMC and the way forward
and concluding remarks was shared by the project director.
