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Partners
The project partners from grassroots to policy level carry out
most of the field level activities
and are a mix of government agencies, academic organisations and
non-government
organisations. The main partners are: North-Eastern Community
Based Resource
Management Project (NERCMP), Nagaland Empowerment of People
through EconomicDevelopment (NEPED), Kanchendzonga Conservation
Committee (KCC), Ashoka Trust for
Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), World
Conservation Union Bangladesh
(IUCN-B), Himalayan Grassroot Womens Natural Resource Management
Association
(HIMAWANTI), National Biodiversity Centre of Bhutan (NBC), and
Mizoram University
(MZU).
Expected long-term outcomes
Raised awareness about access and benefit sharing (ABS) at the
community level
so that communities realise the value of their assets and can
benefit from them;
and at the policy level so that policy makers are able to
prepare appropriate
policies and legislation to use ABS for national and
community benefit
A regional strategy for ABS in the Eastern
Himalayas so that countries can benefit from
the common genetic resources
without conflict
Empowerment of grassroots women by
promoting and enabling their full
participation in the ABS process
ICIMOD serving as a clearing house for
documentation and exchange of knowledge
on ABS in the Eastern Himalayan region Documentation and
analysis of successes and
failures of ABS implementation in the region
providing a basis for learning
Regional Programme onAccess and Benefit Sharing
from Genetic Resources and AssociatedTraditional Knowledge in
the Eastern Himalayas
ABSAccess and Benefit Sharing
for sustainable use of biological resources equitable sharing of
benefits regulated access to biological resourcesPhotos: insect,
aquatic and plant genetic resources, repositories of indigenous
knowledge and traditional skills K.P. Oli
Prepared by CEGG and ICIMOD Publications Unit, August 2006
Printed in Nepal
For further information contact
Dr. Krishna P. Oli, email: [email protected]. M. Kollmair,
email: [email protected]
Culture, Equity, Gender and Governance (CEGG)International
Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)G.P.O. Box 3226,
Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: +977 1 5525313
Fax: +977 1 5536747, www.icimod.org
