Focus Areas of the Project
The project centers around four thematic areas: Community Ecological Governance (CEG), Livelihoods and Ecosystems Community Seed Knowledge (CSK), Youth Culture and Biodiversity (YCB), and Strengthening Networking, Communication, and Regional Advocacy. By addressing these areas, the project aims to enhance the capacity and confidence of ILCs in embracing sustainable lifestyles and safeguarding biocultural diversity. An integral part of the project is the Annual Review Meeting (ARM), a platform for ABN and SIDA to assess progress and draw valuable lessons from the year 2022. Additionally, partners within the Eastern Sub-Regional Node will convene for a two-day meeting to exchange experiences, enhance their implementation capacity, and uphold the principles outlined in AC Resolution 372, which centers on protecting SNS&Ts.
By fostering strategic collaborations and empowering communities to build resilience, we can effectively address the challenges posed by climate change, combat biodiversity loss, and contribute to achieving various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These include eradicating poverty, ensuring zero hunger, promoting good health and well-being, striving for gender equality, advocating for clean water and sanitation, fostering decent work and economic growth, creating sustainable cities and communities, promoting responsible consumption and production, taking climate action, conserving life below water, safeguarding life on land, striving for peace, justice, and strong institutions, and fostering partnerships for the goals. These efforts also align with international treaties and agreements, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and Aichi Biodiversity Targets.