HKKH Partnership for ecosystem management
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INSTITUTIONAL CONSOLIDATION FOR THE COORDINATED AND INTEGRATED MONITORING OF NATIONAL RESOURCES TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION IN THE HINDU KUSH – KARAKORAM – HIMALAYA
launched at WSSD and being implemented by IUCN along with its executing partners ICIMOD, CESVI and Ev-K²-CNR
THE INITIATIVE
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The partnership Initiative represents the willingness of multi-stakeholders in beneficiary countries to jointly tackle the environmental, political and socio-economic vulnerability of the Hindu Kush–Karakorum–Himalaya mountain region, contributing to consolidation of institutional capacity for systemic planning and management at the local, national and regional levels, focusing on poverty reduction and on biodiversity conservation, through policy development and implementation programs in the HKKH region in a longer-term basis.
OBJECTIVES
The Partnership objective is to provide tools and instruments to facilitate the consistency of Provide tools and instruments to facilitate the consistency of various national-level actions in area based planning and management, within the framework of regional level systemic planning and monitoring, including:
- creation of a coordinated system for collection and analysis (monitoring) of natural resource data;
- knowledge about local populations (socioeconomic conditions)
development of participatory, decisional and operational capacities of the beneficiary populations; - transfer of technologies for the systemic management of data to be used by decision makers at a local, national and regional level to improve systemic planning and management of mountain region.
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
A Decision Support System (DSS) is a computer aided tool to support systemic land use planning, management and monitoring. It helps to understand and assess the relationships among the various
management issues, enabling policy maker to make informed decisions.
The need to rapidly define evolutionary scenarios is clearly a priority in order to consent development which is able to combine the understandable need for improving the quality of life of local populations with respect for the environment and conservation of cultures and traditions. Understanding the current situation and being able to simulate medium and long term scenarios, necessarily implies performing compared analyses of various factors, both natural (air, water, soil, animals, vegetation, etc.) and socio-economic (education, health, industry, commerce, agriculture, etc.). Such integration of information and comparative analyses can today be performed by use of modern information technologies.
The DSS will be built on a thorough knowledge of the local area, of the environment and of the socio-economic framework. The creation of a Decision Support System on a solid foundation of data and
information of the whole area is clearly fundamental to promote transboundary planning and management on key mountain issues.
PARTNERS
- ICIMOD - The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
- IUCN - The World Conservation Union
- CESVI - Italian NGO “Cooperation and Development"