Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (2012–2017)

Annual Progress Report 2015

Submitted to: KSLCDI Programme Steering Committee

Supported by:

Department for International Development (DFID),UK and

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

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Copyright © 2016International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)All rights reserved

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ICIMOD gratefully acknowledges the support of its core donors: the Governments of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Australia, Austria, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

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The contents, views, and interpretations in this publication are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of ICIMOD and do not imply the expression of any opinion concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries, or the endorsement of any product.

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CONTENTS

Executive Summary 2

Acronyms and Abbreviations 4

1. KSLCDI Contribution to ICIMOD Strategic Goals 5

2. Progress in the Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) 7

3. Financial Progress: Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative 16

Annex 1: Consolidated Output-Level Milestones and Achievements 2015 17

Annex 2: Success Story of the Year 2015 24

Annex 3: Key Events 25

Annex 4: Total Targeted Beneficiaries in KSL Pilots 26

Annex 5: Publications and Online Sites 37

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Executive SummaryThe Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) is a collaborative initiative that aims to promote conservation and development at the transboundary scale. It is implemented in a commonly delineated landscape between China, India, and Nepal and is facilitated by ICIMOD (funded by DFID and BMZ-GIZ). The programme is now in an advanced stage of operationalisation, as all participating countries are proactively implementing targeted activities according to the implementation plan and M&E Framework and are leveraging country resources to complement the limited scale of project activities. After Nepal and China, which have already established national-level institutional mechanisms to steer work in the KSL, India is finalizing a coordination committee model at the highest level (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change), which is steered by the federal ministry with representatives from state governments. This committee will supervise all landscape-level initiatives including KSL in the Indian Himalayan Region.

During 2015, there are some clear indications of achievements at regional and transboundary level. One of the major milestones has always been country ownership with stronger regional integration. This year, ownership of the concept of transboundary cooperation was increased through targeted ‘Regional Dialogue Mechanisms’ , including the transboundary Jeoljibi Festival between India and Nepal; transboundary value chains (farmer-to-farmer networking at India-ICIMOD Week); common agreements on human-wildlife management options; and an interface between ANCA (Nepal) and Askot (India) conservation areas for transboundary natural resource management, Yarsagumba management, vegetation classification, and sustainable mountain forestry. Efforts from KSLCDI to ensure robust and sustained regional and global-level partnerships with key partners and forums (Global Landscapers Forum at UNFCCC, ICI, ACWADAM, UNEP-WCMC, FRI, RMCs) have been strengthened.

The Government of Nepal has officially recognized the ANCA Management Council, as a model ‘institutional mechanism’ that brings together communities’ perceptions and the needs of socioeconomic development and conservation at the local level, while also dealing with issues related to transboundary natural resource management. This model can be scaled up to the landscape level as well. Similarly, key steps in the process of nominating KSL as a UNESCO World Heritage Site have been initiated, with active participation by the Tibet Autonomous Region, Government of China, and willingness to participate shown at the highest level in India and Nepal.

Ownership at the highest level in China, India, and Nepal has led to an enabling atmosphere for transboundary events and mutual learning. Thus, a set of community-to-community exchanges were organized between Indian and Nepal KSL (e.g. Jeoljibi Festival, networking of value chain farmers and stakeholders from Pulan County to Nepal, the springshed concept). Contributions of KSL learning in policy influencing forums is reflected by the fact that KSLCDI resource persons are proactively sought for input and participation in India’s new Forest Policy Making Forum, Nepal’s national bill on access and benefit sharing and its NTFP policy, and by Sichuan University on the development of a cultural services framework.

Under the livelihood component efforts to reach out to marginal farmers and establish institutional arrangements have helped to ensure the consolidation of progress made in the standardization of a package of practices and certification prioritized as a key to the sustainability of mountain product value chains. Hence, strong engagement with the private sector is being pursued, and the organic certification process has commenced in India. In KSL-India the process of organic certification of honey and other products has begun with 700 households, bring an increase in the incomes of farmers. As an example, a women-based ‘allo’ value chain enterprise is being supported through SABAH Nepal, SADA Nepal, and HECT Consultancy for the implementation.

Another major achievement was engagement of local change agents for innovative livelihood options through the capacity building events and have paid off, e.g. Rekha Bhandari in KSL-India is currently handling a women cooperative. Local governments and councils now have greater ownership of the responsibility to provide financial support to livelihoods-related value chains. The local government in Pulan County, TAR, China, has focused on

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responsible tourism in its master plan. One-hundred-and-fifty sacred sites around Mount Kailash, which support the heritage concept of the core landscape, have been newly found and documented. In KSL-China, the Shengdi Tourist Company in Pulan County has expressed its availability to provide support for the development of ABS awareness raising material.

A comprehensive database has been compiled on the cryosphere across the KSL, while monitoring systems and sample plots in all pilots on biodiversity, forest ecosystems, and their services, socio-demographic changes and other climate related changes have been fully established. Early data analysis has led to validation and endorsement of seamless vegetation type classification system by three countries. The database will go a long way in strengthening the concepts of the conservation strategy and supporting its implementation.

With learning till 2015 compiled and distilled, several key publications, participation in events (UNFCCC, IPBES, India-ICIMOD Week, HKH Mountain Forestry Symposium), and a continually updated website have profiled KSLCDI across the region and the globe. This is also reflected by 43,857 KSL website site visits and numerous requests for cooperation (e.g., from CIFOR, Third Pole, Wageningen University) and networking. KSLCDI has therefore fulfilled most of its set milestones for 2015 and several outputs are now poised to reach outcome-levels, with impacts expected from 2016.

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Acronyms and Abbreviations ABS Access and Benefit SharingANCA Api Nampa Conservation AreaCBD Convention on Biological DiversityCIB Chengdu Institute of Biology CHEA Central Himalayan Environment AssociationCLTS Community led total sanitation DFID Department for International Development (UK)DoF Department of Forests (Nepal)DNPWC Department for National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (Nepal)DPR Department of Plant Resources (Nepal) FRI Forest Research Institute (India)FNCCI Federation of Nepalese Chamber Of Commerce & IndustriesGBPIHED G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & DevelopmentGoN Government of Nepal GIZ German Agency for International Cooperation GLORIA Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments GLF Global Landscape ForumHi-Life Landscape Initiative for the Far-Eastern HimalayasICI India China InstituteICIMOD International Centre for Integrated Mountain DevelopmentICT Information and Communications TechnologyIGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources ResearchIPBES Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ServicesIUCN International Union for Conservation and NatureKL Kangchenjunga LandscapeKLCDI Kangchenjunga Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative KPWL Karakoram-Pamir Wakhan LandscapeKSL Kailash Sacred LandscapeKSLCDI Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development InitiativeKSLIS Kailash Sacred Landscape Information System LoA Letter of AgreementLoI Letter of Intent LTESM Long Term Environmental and Socio-Ecological MonitoringM&E Monitoring and EvaluationMoU Memorandum of UnderstandingMoEFCC Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of IndiaMoFSC Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Government of NepalNRM Natural Resource ManagementNTFP Non Timber Forest ProductPMU Programme Management UnitRECAST Research Centre for Applied Science and TechnologyREDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest DegradationRMC Regional Member CountryRML Reuters Market LightSANDEE South Asian Network for Development and Environmental EconomicsSARCist South Asia Regional CooperationSABAH SAARC Business Association of Home Based WorkersSBB State Biodiversity BoardTAAAS Tibetan Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry ScienceTAR Tibet Autonomous Region of ChinaTUM Technische Universität MünchenUNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat DesertificationUNEP United Nations Environment ProgrammeUNESCO United National Educational, Scientific, and Cultural OrganizationUNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeVC Value ChainVDC Village Development Committee (Nepal)WCMC World Conservation Monitoring CentreWII Wildlife Institute of India

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1. KSLCDI Contribution to ICIMOD Strategic Goals

1.1 Introduction to Initiative

The Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) is a collaborative initiative that aims to promote conservation and development at transboundary scale. It is implemented in China, India, and Nepal and is facilitated by ICIMOD (funded by DFID and BMZ-GIZ). The initiative’s contribution towards safe guarding the livelihoods of mountain people and ecosystems of Hind-Kush-Himalayan Region, KSLCDI has contributed in 2015 towards strategic goals of ICIMOD.

1.2 Widespread Adoption of Innovations Developed by KSLCDI and Partners to Adapt to Change Leading to Positive Impacts for Women, Men, and Children

Information technology is being used in KSL pilot areas as an innovative approach to disseminate information to wider list of beneficiaries. Nearly 200 people are connected through the WeChat mobile application under the Kailash programme in TAR-China (Tibetan Autonomous Region of China) that provides updated information pertaining to the cultural, biological and spiritual significance of Kailash as well as updates on government decisions around tourism development in the area. Similarly, Reuters Market Light, one of our key private sector partners, has been sharing agro-advisory information for making informed choices to 250 households, which is now benefitting 1,250 people, of which 400 are women.

Women cooperative has been formalized for promoting allo, honey and Churyee value chains in India; this is a big step in empowering women in developing and managing enterprises for mountain products.

As an instance KSL-India pilot adopting improved vegetable production practices showed 30% increase in per unit area bringing an income of INR 220 000 to 80 households.

1.3 Significant Advances in the Generation and Use of Relevant Data, Knowledge, and Analysis

With the establishment of long term monitoring sites across KSL, meteorological data, vegetation sampling (e.g. forests, invasive species) biodiversity monitoring in GLORIA sites, rural appraisals data and springsheds management protocols are providing wide variety of datasets being used to prepare landscape level baselines as well as contributed to local planning processes. For instance, the spatial maps generated through KSLCDI have been integral part of the ANCA management plan.

KSLCDI has 21 publications (technical, peer-reviewed and general articles) since 2012. This number is expected to increase with communication strategy in place as well few papers in pipeline. The Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) has been referred in the IUCN-published book on “Transboundary Governance: Protected Area Management Best Practices Guidelines”. Kailash web portal is used as central repository for KSL related publications, including 21 KSLCDI publications. There have been a total of 16312 full text downloads of KSLCDI relevant publications of 246,728 total downloads of ICIMOD publications.

1.4 Significantly Developed Human and Institutional Capacity

Sixty institutions participated in the capacity development events conducted in 2015, totalling 155 participants (21 female) that are not directly involved with KSLCDI. Details on global, regional and national events are further provided in ANNEX 3. As continued practice of “Mentoring Partners” the capacity of key partner’s representatives

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for landscape governance in all countries was strengthen through a “Landscape Governance course” organised by Wageningen University, CIFOR and World Agroforestry Centre. This course will be offered in 2016 at ICIMOD for other initiatives in collaboration with Wageningen University.

At individual level 2425 people out of whom 23 % were women (561) participated so far in various capacity development events on innovative livelihood and water resources management.

1.5 Policies and Practices Considerably Influenced by the Work of ICIMOD and Its Partners

Based on KSL experience in forestry across HKH problems and challenges have commonality thus demanding a concentred effort to analyse, reflect and recommend improvements. KSLCDI took the initiative of deliberating on the need of transformation of mountain forestry in terms of policy and practice and future research focus. The recommendations of the “Mountain forestry symposium in 2015” are building the perspective from local to national level and contributing to policy processes in several countries (e.g. New National Forest Policy Formulation Process in India, National ABS Bill to protect biodiversity and NTFP Policy in Nepal). The capacity building of local stakeholders of Api Nampa Conservation Area (ANCA) (covering area of 1903 km2) has led to the establishment and recognition of the ANCA Management Council that directly relates with its 59000 resident population. ANCA provides the institutional format for future bottom-up mechanism to landscape approach and transboundary cooperation. The ANCA Management Plan has also been endorsed by the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Nepal, and 21 million Nepali Rupees have been allocated for its implementation by the government for 2016. ICIMOD has been instrumental with the establishment of Pulan County Government Tourism Plan with focus on responsible tourism and cultural preservation (KSL China).

1.6 Enhanced Regional Cooperation Related to Sustainable Mountain Development

One of the key objectives of KSL is to build and demonstrate a rationale based on transboundary landscape approach to enhance regional cooperation. KSL has adopted this approach and through an organic process ownership of the Kailash Sacred Landscape from the local to the policy levels is contributing to regional cooperation. Several on-demand regional events have improved the relevance of policy and practices related dialogue forums. Since its inception KSLCDI programme has been able to establish the following regional cooperation mechanism which are sustainable:• Regional Programme Steering Committee (comprised of joint secretaries from three participating countries) to

represent their governments for improving regional cooperation in KSL region.• Thematic regional dialogues are organised on human-wildlife conflict, markets for value chains and Springshed

management (senior government officials and scientists participated in these events).• Regional exchanges are taking place through “Yatras”.• Same regional cooperation models are being replicated in other ICIMOD regional landscape initiatives like;

KPWL, KLCDI and HI-LIFE.• Promoted regional heritage tourism through guidelines and engagement with private sector organisations.

1.7 Global Recognition of the Importance of Mountains, and Global Resources Made Available to Mountain People to Ensure Improved and Resilient Livelihoods and Ecosystems

Among other key initiatives of ICIMOD, KSLCDI works closely with its participating countries and partner organizations to highlight issues of mountain communities to influence global policy arenas and bodies such as the UNFCCC, CBD, IUCN, UNESCO and IPBES. At UNFCCC, India presented KSLCDI in its effort to profile climate-friendly conservation and development efforts and learning thereof. At the same event, in Global Landscapes Forum, KSLCDI was presented as a best practice in a major publication “The Little Sustainable Landscapes Book” published and launched at Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative. Similarly, IUCN’s major publication on transboundary governance, global best practices published in 2015 has KSLCDI embedded in the book.

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2. Progress in KSLCDI The programme is now in an advanced stage of operationalisation, as all participating countries are proactively implementing targeted activities and leveraging country resources to complement the programme objectives.

After Nepal and China’s successful development of National Coordination Committee (NCC) to steer KSL in their respective countries, India at its highest level of MOEFCC as nodal ministry, is working on developing the Coordination Committee model, which could be steered by the federal ministry with representatives of the State of Uttarakhand as part of the nominated body. However, at national level, India is also aiming to develop a “Common Landscapes Steering Forum” as a mechanism to steer KSL and other initiatives at the highest level of MOEFCC for mutual learning and focus policy influence in the longer run.

2.1 Programme Beneficiary Reach

As of December 2015, 33,422 people, of which 11,164 female (33%) have been reached through KSLCDI activities in China, India and Nepal. In illustration below, Nepal’s beneficiary reach is low owing to stagnation of work post-Earthquake, because of which team could not conduct many activities. Among total 2425 beneficiaries mentioned, 23 % were women (561) who participated directly in various capacity development events on innovative livelihood and water resources management activities of KSLCDI.

Once the baseline information is consolidated in coming year, number direct beneficiaries expected to be higher. Engagement and capacity building of local change agents such as Ms Rekha Bhandari in KSL-India has paid off as through programme inputs she started with the group of women in Jajroli village and is currently handling a cooperative which can be fully utilized in all other pilot villages wherever livelihoods related outputs are to be reached.

2.2 Innovation in Livelihoods

Further to illustrate, the special feature about the “Livelihoods Component” is the outreach to “Marginal Farmers and Institutional Arrangements” that are ensuring consolidation of the progress made so far and tap linkages between consistent and standardized market products .

Local government, community leaders and representatives of key tourism companies from KSL China organized an awareness programme in the Huor pilot site for community-led total sanitation (CLTS). After the event, the Pulan local government has prioritized sanitation programmes in their ongoing development scheme. Similar capacity building exercise was done with forest tribes (Van Rajis) living in KSL-India. The communities here have taken charge of management processes for keeping high standards of hygiene.

A major contribution to boost responsible tourism was the training on South Asian Food and Beverage course for local restaurant owners of the KSL-China pilots in Lhasa attended by 12 participants from Pulan County (11 women).

Figure 1: Outreach of KSLCDI Activities in China, India, and Nepal (2015)

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2.3 Bringing Mountain Farmers Closer to Markets

Keeping in view the previous best cases in marketing of livelihoods products in HKH, standardisation of package of practices and certification has great relevance for sustainability. Hence strong engagement with private sector is being pursued and also organic certification process has commenced in India. As an example, women-based Allo Value Chain is being supported through SABAH Nepal, SADA Nepal and HECT Consultancy for the implementation of various activities.

For ensuring the long-term sustainability of such livelihoods initiatives, capacity development and the formalization of local institutions such as chyura cooperatives in India, allo women’s enterprise in Nepal are in progress. Bhumiraj allo processing centre that has been formed to leverage the inclusive local institutions for collective action in Khar VDC pilot site is one of such example. This allo processing centre comprised with 83 members representing from various existing groups (e.g., Poverty Alleviation Group, Women/mothers groups and Allo groups).

Similarly the number of families receiving agro-advisory services by SMS from Reuters Market Light (RML) has increased by an additional 125 households. An early assessment by RML shows that the majority of farmers are benefitting and partly acting on the information received. During the India-ICIMOD Week, farmers from pilots participated in the exhibition of farm produce. It brought the groups in linkage with private sector, as well as competing enterprises from the Himalayan region. The private sector engagement need to be further explored for long term support and also safeguarding the continuation of value chain interventions after project completion.

Apart from this, the participatory natural resources management process has been oriented so that local communities are involved in designing and delivering key decisions. Thus benefits are brought from livelihoods activities on an inclusive basis while investing in activities that help sustain ecosystem services through better

management.

2.4 Ecosystem Management, Linking Livelihoods

The other major achievement has been the “linkage of livelihoods to

Figure 2: Women attending training Figure 3: Menu in three languages (Tibetan, Chinese and English) with photos and suggested price

Figure 4: Integrating women’s leadership skills for allo producers’ enterprise as the symbol of socioeconomic empowerment and ecosystem stewardship

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the community based management plans and process” that sets the frame for overall convergence of activities to achieve set outputs while integrated ecosystem management principles at the “Landscape Approach”.

The direct support for the establishment and recognition of ANCA Management Council was successful. With that a prototype of “institutional mechanism” that in the long run will bring collectively community’s perceptions and needs of socio-economic development and thus help mainstreaming landscape approach at KSL-Nepal level.

Training on the ecosystem management framework was conducted with KSL India and Nepal in registering a total of 78 participants including 30 women partners and local resource persons in the Himkhola watershed (India). People trained have taken up similar activities in the horizontal landscape and out scaling are in process. Training of local resource persons from KSL India and Nepal on spring hydrogeology has brought attention among local communities of the need to preserve their spring as the only source of water during stress situations.

The first ever pilot visit in KSL China by the GIZ and ICIMOD Team has given good insights into ground realities and progress made. The team could interact with local government, communities, and other stakeholders on objectives and progress with special focus on livelihoods and tourism development and potential of Pulan County in relation to heritage tourism.

2.5 Policy Influence and Leveraging Resources

Regional cooperation and policy influencing processes were promoted through the Transforming Mountain Forestry Symposium held in Dehradun. One of the key recommendations from the symposium was “harmonizing the nomenclature of forest types across the HKH”. A follow up regional workshop was held to harmonize the use of common forest types as a basis for good forest management at the regional scale.

Figure 5: Linking KSL value chain products to markets

Figure 6: Linking local priorities, knowledge and plans with ecosystem-based approaches

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Building on national perspectives a regional dialogue through ‘Tracking options for sustainable management and trade on Yarsagumba in the Kailash Landscape’ event was hosted by the Bhutan Ministry of Agriculture. This event has clearly set the basis for designing and delivering more such “Regional Dialogues” that have transboundary aspects and potential to contribute to improved livelihoods and ecosystem management in KSL and other such initiatives of the HKH region.

The Api-Nampa Conservation Area (ANCA) Management Plan has also been endorsed by MoFSC, and funds have been allocated for its implementation which secures a sustainability of work beyond project. The transboundary management interface through Api Nampa Conservation Area, Nepal and ASKOT Wildlife Sanctuary, India got a boost by bringing together public actors across the KSL between India and Nepal. It provided a set of recommendations to strengthen the ground level cooperation between two countries, furthering the goal of regional cooperation for knowledge exchange. Following the scoping meeting held with UNESCO Nepal and the Ministries for Tourism and Culture and Forests and Soil Conservation, commitment for nominating KSL as UNESCO World Heritage Site is ensured. The Tibetan Autonomous Region Government has started the work on nomination of Kailash peak circumambulation and Manasarovar Lake as World Heritage Sites. This will facilitate the similar process being adopted by other two countries.

ICIMOD now is the member of task force engaged by GoN to prepare National ABS bill for being promulgated in the Parliament.

2.6 KSLCDI Strategy Documents and Knowledge Products

As a result of the regional knowledge management and communication strategy, some key knowledge products such as comprehensive newsletters, posters, partner program factsheets, interactive Kailash map on the website, Kailash slide documentary, and scientific papers have already been published and disseminated at various forums such as GLF, UNFCCC and India-ICIMOD week. Two key frameworks of the KSLCDI, namely, the draft ecosystem management and Long-Term Environment and Socio-ecological Monitoring are being implemented but need intensive field support from ICIMOD to ensure mainstreaming and efforts to scale out and scale up these frameworks at the regional level and beyond. KSLCDI was presented at GLF of UNFCCC by the Indian Government. KSL was featured in IUCN WCPA Guidelines Publication on Transboundary Conservation under two topics – sacred studies and the M&E framework. It also got cited in “The Little Book on Sustainable Landscapes”. An article on Himalayan springs and their importance has been published in the SARCist (Centre for Policy Research) newsletter in India. The learning from KSLCDI is now part of a GIZ publication launched at the UNFCCC conference. A peer reviewed article is published on land use change and forest fragmentation trend from KSL- Nepal. Bio-cultural protocol guidelines, another publication has been prepared to raise awareness about, and improve our understanding of, the

Figure 7: Key information flyers for value chain and springshed work

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customary rights of indigenous and local communities in relation to the use of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge.

KSLCDI Website has recorded visits of 43857, with highest visit in October following the publication of two online pieces; 1. Himalayan nettle links marginalized to private sector, 2. Off season vegetables improving rural livelihoods. Next step envisaged is to actively push information through social media platform. We are working on drawing social media strategy along with continuous monitoring mechanism to reach our goal by informing our communication and knowledge sharing institution and actors goals.

Kailash Sacred Landscape Information System (KSLIS) Launched

The Kailash Sacred Landscape Information System (KSLIS) provides a platform for structuring the collected data, and storing the data through the Regional Database Initiative of ICIMOD. This will facilitate data and information sharing as well data visualization to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and communication among the stakeholders and general users concerned with the Kailash Sacred Landscape. The aim of the information system is to fill the data gaps, showcase the progress and learning from the project, and to strengthen the policy formulation process by providing reliable, consistent and timely data for the remotest part of the Himalayan region.

2.7 Gender Integration

The Transboundary Landscapes Regional Programme is committed to equal representation of gender in training courses and participatory meetings organized through KSLCDI.ICIMOD aims to provide on-the-ground backstopping to country partners on issues related to local institutions, gender and inclusiveness. In KSLCDI, gender and governance related issues are harnessed and all inclusive is being supported at the grassroots level in pilots of India and Nepal. However, apart from capacity building measures, activities are underway which will improve governance structure of local institutions for resources management and livelihood improvement providing decision-making strengths to women and disadvantaged groups in upcoming value chains enterprises and cooperatives.

2.8 Evaluation and Impact Orientation

The tone for this year’s follow-up in strategic and implementation orientation was set by DFID as its team from the UK and India visited KSL-Nepal sites and assessed the delivery of the programme on the ground. Apart from this, ICIMOD teams have been regularly backing country partners in the field. For the first time, a team of GIZ and ICIMOD visited pilot sites in KSL-China and have given several recommendations on promoting responsible tourism and the cheese value chain. ICIMOD professionals also contributed recommendations and implementation support to these meetings. All other National Coordination Committee (NCC) meetings are taking place (apart from India), and country programmes for KSL China and Nepal are periodically reviewed. Whereas Indian partners are meeting on quarterly basis to review progress and MoEF&CC is rigorously monitoring the progress, Nepalese partners meet regularly on monthly basis at Kathmandu to review progress and effect demand-oriented instant corrective measures. However, the regional director based in Dhangadi monitors the progress in KSL-Nepal at the ground level. Chinese partners normally only meet during the field work in summer and in NCC meetings.

2.9 Effective Partnership Management

Partnerships have been developed with lead institutions in various thematic areas to build institutional capacities and innovation within the programme. With the partnership agreement between ICIMOD and ACWADAM, the subject of springshed management has been added to the innovative work being done at the landscape level in India and Nepal.

Partnerships with the India-China Institute (ICI), USA to deepen the understanding of cultural heritage of KSL are

Figure 8: KSL Information System

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implemented. This will also promote an inter-disciplinary, field-based research collaboration that would generate new understandings and knowledge on the dynamic interplay of ecology and culture in the Himalaya. The LoI with Technical University of Munich (on sustainable forest management) is finalized. The partnership with SANDEE on valuating ecosystem services in KSL pilots of India and Nepal has started and first round of field trips to assess data and capacity building needs of partners is completed and the inception methodology for India and Nepal is ready.

To address the demand of MOFSC to work in all four districts in KSL Nepal, selective action research linked to key outputs is being carried out in Baitadi and Bajhang.

Changes in practices are visible through changes in the activities of institutions known for academic research (WII). Training through KSLCDI has been influencing practices toward the integration of cross-cutting disciplines (water, biodiversity, ecosystem services, participatory local level management planning) for conservation and development with gender inclusion.

A Regular Programme Steering Committee meeting of KSLCDI was hosted by Chinese partners in Chengdu, ownership and governance structures of KSLCDI are being followed on rotational basis; the approval of the initiative’s amended annual plan 2015, TORs (e.g. of PSC, NCC, PMU), and budget allocation have been received from DFID and GIZ.

2.10 Programme Management Unit (Pmu) at ICIMOD

In 2015, two more human resources have been added to KSLCDI team. The first one is touching the subject of socio-demographic changes (e.g. migration) that are happening due to migration of men folk and especially youth. The other one is looking in to the “Cultural Services” aspect of ecosystem services. A Development Advisor from GIZ has been installed in the field at Darchula. Moreover, RECAST and MOFSC have hired a project officer to consolidate and speed up the implementation process and monitoring in ANCA.

ICIMOD now is regularly backing up quarterly meeting of partner in India. It also participated in the annual NCC meeting in China and contributed the recommendations for integrated approach and impact-oriented implementation on the ground. PMU has organised all the key activities planned and supported all planned regional events.

This year’s annual review and planning workshop was built on the motto “Consolidate, Converge and Leverage in 2016”. This keeping in view that the project has crossed its mid-term tenure and it is time to harness the learning and share it proactively. Kailash online reporting system for partners the first of its kind in ICIMOD was launched during the regional review and planning 2016.

The system is designed to allow partners to enter their reporting requirements online and to provide a platform for them to view their progress. All the partner institutions from the three regional member countries of Nepal, China and India were given brief hands on exercise into this system. The overall aim of this system is to make data reporting more systematic, organized, accessible and easier to present. The response of the partners for the new Kailash online reporting system was overall very good and is reflected from the fact that all submitted online. However, it was also realised that there is a need of making the progress of online report submission more efficient. Also there was annual report requirement.

2.11 KSLCDI Country Wise Major Achievements in 2015

The overall progress elaborated above is a result of country based planning of 2015 and its implementation. In each country and at regional level ICIMOD has complemented for all components as per the plan 2015. There are clear differentials in the progress made in each participating country according to the level of conduciveness for intensive field work and stakeholder interface. Accordingly, each country pilot has contributed

Figure 9: KSLCDI Online Reporting System

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the detailed progress elaborated above. In the country level major achievements only the key highlights are given. Figure 10 below captures the key pilots where work has been intensive.

2.12 Highlights of Key Challenges

• The unrest in the Terai region of Nepal bordering with India has put serious restrictions on travel. This is in addition to disrupted land route to KSL - China after the earthquake in April and May. The current routes being used to travel to KSL Nepal and China are adding to the travel costs to the programme.

• The complete set of data available with country partners is not yet available at the regional level.

Table 1: Country Wise Major Achievements of 2015

Major Achievement in 2015

China • The livelihoods promotion in TAR China pilots gained momentum in 2015. The high potential of yak cheese and yoghurt (in the last quarter) value chains provided the basis for transboundary exposure trip of local government and TAAAS to Nepalese best practices. Pulan government now has initiated construction of cheese factory in Huor Township. Local government invested RMB 1-1.5 million for construction.

• Recognizing the urgent need for upgrading the capacity of local hotel, guest house and restaurant owners on F&B and hospitality, KSLCDI and Sichuan University with the support of the Himalaya Hotel Management-Lhasa have delivered a training event in Lhasa.

• The group has worked out a menu to be offered for tourists 2016 onwards that offer choices of vegetarian menu described in three language and photographs of the dish (Figure 3)

India • KSLCDI value chain products and knowledge products got a marked visibility to policymakers, market actors and consumers in one-week India-ICIMOD Week where initiative figured by displaying audio-video communication material.

• Van Rajis, the forest dwellers have shown the way by producing 1200 Kg of red beans out of which 700 kg were for sale. 350 kg have already brought an income of INR 52 000 and at India-ICIMOD week an order of 300 Kg by a sole buyer is booked.

• Community based management plans and participatory process have been formalized through a MoU in a tripartite agreement among the Bans-Maitoli Van Panchayat, District Administration and Wildlife Institute of India for execution of the ESM plan and support to CBOs for plan implementation.

• In KSL India a Landscape level Consultative workshop for Capacity building of stakeholders on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) was organized.

• The bi-lingual Newsletter “Sangju” is now contributed by all KSL partners and is disseminating KSL experience to policymakers, practitioners and local communities.

Nepal • KSLCDI has contributed effectively for policy processes toward National ABS bill, Yarsagumba Policy-practice guidelines, NTFP policy and the upcoming newsletter.

• The long term institutional mechanism to practice landscape approach is formalized through registration of ANCA council and the management plan for which government funds were allocated NPR 21 million.

• The long term monitoring mechanisms for capturing changes in socio-demography, climate, biodiversity, culture, and springsheds are now established and the hydromet data is harnessed.

• Through the component on Long Term Environmental and Socio-Ecological Monitoring use land cover datasets for pilots in three countries are ready. This will be key database towards scaling up the landscape approach from pilots to transboundary level.

Figure 10: KSLCDI partner activity map

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• Some key activities in KSL Pilots on CLTS and Heritage Tourism could not be conducted thus delaying the key outputs. The hiring of consultants and starting with no-regret activity in 2015 was discussed with partners and done.

• Permission of foreigners to KSL-India and China is a big issue and often takes longer period for approval.

• Some key human resources at PMU (National Coordinator Nepal and Programme Assistant) left unexpectedly and caused marginal delays in service delivery.

• Partner’s quarterly/annual reports often get delayed than the submission date. These are all for valid reasons, however, this in return causes delay in submission of Annual reports as well as financial liquidation at the end of the year.

• Selected communication specialist did not join hence a delay in disseminating knowledge products was registered. A consultant was used then to do the pending work.

2.13 Risk Assessment and Mitigation Measures

The following table gives a risk assessment for the KSLCDI and the mitigation measures put in place to mitigate this risk.

2.14 Major Deviation from 2015 Plan

Due to major earthquake in Nepal, there was a marginal delay in supporting country partners in the field and also in processing important knowledge into products. The communication specialist selected for KSLCDI could not join and therefore documentation and profiling of achievements of KSLCDI have been delayed. However, the country partners have responded positively and the momentum of progress in the field has been maintained. The resignation

KSLCDI risk assessment

Risks identified Mitigation measure

The political, social, economic and natural atmosphere deteriorates

KSLCDI has mainstreamed a communication strategy that leads to partners having an equitable level of information and learning on the programme progress and performance. Regular mentorship events where partners exchange their experiences and learn together are being organized to demonstrate greater ownership as integrated teams. Community-to-community exchange and networking so that an enabling atmosphere is built from the bottom-up. The nodal ministry in each country is regularly updated on positive learning made.

Reform processes are stalled or very slow

KSLCDI is sharing good lessons and practices with policy makers and several policy influencing process platforms, continue mentorship in required fields with key decision makers at all levels of programme and policy making; and adequately involve national and regional stakeholders and authorities in regional knowledge forums. Selected exposures of policymakers and practitioners to landscape pilots and Landscape Yatra.

Ownership of KSLCDI at country level may go down due to low quantum of programme funding or sensitive issues

KSLCDI is focusing on increased ‘hand holding’ of country partners and stakeholders, including on-the-job capacity building such as in mainstreaming of frameworks. For this action plans have been drawn for the mainstreaming of the regional communication strategy, and planning and management guidelines will be closely monitored. Bring landscape initiative steering at national levels.

National and regional stakeholders and local authorities/institutions do not cooperate in the implementation of the KSLCDI

KSLCDI considers global issues such as climate change, globalization processes, and poverty alleviation as areas for collaboration; increased joint articulation of relevant cross-border issues (e.g. human-wildlife conflict, markets) by providing space in national and global forums (UNFCCC, CBD, and UNCCD, National policy making forums); focus on issues that are of common priority for all stakeholders; build regional partnerships with respect to standard protocols, technologies, and instrumentation, and make these available in an adequate and timely manner; regularly update the web portal; and motivate country partners to share and access relevant data, progress, and innovative initiatives on the ground.

Local communities do not devote enough time for participation in project related activities

KSLCDI is building on participatory approaches to livelihood innovations, ecosystem management, and socio-ecological and environment monitoring; bridging cooperation between stakeholders at the provincial level; strengthening local planning and implementation mechanisms with people’s priorities; promoting innovations among local communities that are willing to share knowledge; and introducing incentive-based mechanisms. Work is being done on the economic empowerment of local women across the landscape.

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of KSL Nepal Coordinator and Programme Associate affected operations and coordination of the programme. Both positions have been filled within the existing ICIMOD team and therefore continuity of good rapport with country partners is assured. There is a possibility of not reaching a few set targets in KSL Nepal, as country partners could not go to the field for two months, but the overall programme targets will be fulfilled. The political unrest in Nepal’s Terai region bordering India restricted movements for field travel. The start of heritage tourism work in KSL Nepal and several activities in ANCA are therefore delayed. In the annual review and planning meeting the partners were asked to revisit the set targets and ensure that through ICIMOD support these will be achieved in 2015. Similarly, scope of fulfilling the financial targets for 2015 was assessed and spillovers are known that will influence the formulation of annual plan 2016. Some key livelihoods activities by providing external inputs could not be conducted in TAR China pilots (CLTS, heritage Tourism, on-site VC trainings).

2.15 Key Lessons Learnt

• KSLCDI now needs to profile its learning at strategic forums at national and global levels. At the same time, intensive engagement with country partners in the field to ensure that targets of 2016 are reached in a timely manner and converted to outputs and outcomes.

• KSLCDI partners now need to be mentored for consolidation of learning, convergence of outputs to outcomes, and leveraging of resources for larger landscape investments with local stakeholders.

• Regular field level capacity building of all country partners is a must to ensure the right implementation of frameworks/methodologies and timely inputs to achieve impacts on time.

• KSLCDI would need to work towards ensuring ecosystem services at multiple scales involving diverse Stakeholder at the same time pat attention towards the standardisation of services and products that are being generated through the initiative.

• The numerous micro plans in pilots must converge to the actual landscape plan so that landscape approach perspective is built at a scale.

• The evolving landscape approach need to be a mix of community development priorities, conservation priorities based on ecosystem services vulnerability assessments and finally need to feed into existing intervention and investment plan of the stale/local government.

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3. Financial ProgressThe major portion of KSLCDI funds is consumed by National Partner Contracts and ICIMOD project inception and coordination cost. Expenditure utilization for 2015 by various partners is as follows:

The year 2015 has been a very intensive year for KSLCDI. Despite the massive earthquake, protracted political uncertainty in Nepal, and limited access to pilot sites in TAR, China, country partners have made remarkable progress towards reaching milestones set for 2017. And this has been complimented with ICIMOD- KSLCDI team towards achieving the programme goals.

Table 2 Fund utilization and spill over with KSLCDI partners - 2015

Country Partners Agreed Budget for 2015

Disbursed till Dec 2015

Spent till Dec 2015

Available spill over (2014/15)

China IGNSRR + TAAAS 225,000 225,000 220,044 11,251

CIB 184,000 184,000 184,000 0

KIB 115,000 115,000 115,000 0

Sichuan University 145,000 145,000 85,000

India GBPIHED 296,500 296,500 241,680 41,354

WII 138,500 138,500 159,711 8,381

CHEA 125,000 125,000 115,235 9,765

Nepal RECAST 471,500 471,500 396,662 103,823

Total 1,700,500 1,700,500 1,517,332 174,574

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AN

NEX

1. Conso

lidate

d m

ilest

ones

ach

ieve

men

ts a

t outp

ut

leve

l 2015

Out

put

Obj

ectiv

ely

Verifi

able

In

dica

tors

Mile

stone

s (2

015)

Prog

ress

Ri

sks

/ A

ssum

ptio

nsRe

com

men

datio

ns

1. I

nnov

ativ

e liv

elih

ood

and

adap

tatio

n to

ch

ange

1.1

Pro

poo

r and

in

clus

ive

valu

e ch

ains

add

ress

ing

inco

me

impr

ovem

ent,

clim

ate

chan

ge

adap

tatio

n an

d w

ater

, ene

rgy

man

agem

ent

stren

gthe

ned

1.2

Her

itage

to

uris

m p

lan

addr

essi

ng

inco

me

impr

ovem

ent,

clim

ate

chan

ge

adap

tatio

n an

d w

ater

, ene

rgy

man

agem

ent

deve

lope

d an

d im

plem

enta

tion

supp

orte

d

1.1.

1. O

ne

com

preh

ensi

ve h

igh-

valu

e m

edic

inal

pla

nts

data

base

esta

blis

hed

1.1.

2. V

alue

ch

ains

for fi

ve n

iche

pr

oduc

ts str

engt

hene

d (in

terv

entio

n po

ints,

up

grad

ing

strat

egie

s in

clud

ing

botto

m

lines

)

1.2.

1. T

wo

train

ing

cour

ses

and

two

wor

ksho

ps fo

r ke

y sta

keho

lder

s (o

rgan

ised

co

mm

uniti

es,

land

scap

e in

stitu

tions

, he

ritag

e to

uris

m

stake

hold

ers)

1.2.

1. O

ne m

odel

H

erita

ge T

ouris

m

Man

agem

ent P

lan

deve

lope

d an

d Im

plem

enta

tion

capa

city

of k

ey

stake

hold

ers

of

Her

itage

Tou

rism

M

anag

emen

t Pla

n bu

ilt

1. H

igh-

valu

e ve

geta

ble

grow

ers

grou

p es

tabl

ishe

d in

pi

lot s

ite; V

C

Base

line

repo

rt on

Veg

etab

les

and

Yak-

shee

p ba

sed

ente

rpris

e (C

hina

).

2. H

igh

valu

e ch

urye

e ho

ney

prod

ucer

s gr

oup

form

ed (I

ndia

) al

lo (N

epal

); VC

bas

elin

e re

port;

wat

er

ener

gy s

avin

g te

chno

logi

es

inte

grat

ed w

ith

high

val

ue c

hain

•. B

asel

ine

repo

rt fo

r Nep

al is

com

plet

ed a

nd fi

nal

inpu

ts ha

ve b

een

prov

ided

to fi

naliz

e th

e re

port

• Tw

o al

lo g

roup

s re

giste

red

in K

har V

DC

cov

erin

g 6

war

ds.

Com

mon

faci

lity

cent

re fo

r allo

pro

cess

ing

and

capa

city

bui

ldin

g ha

ve b

een

iden

tified

and

stre

ngth

ened

in

Kha

r VD

C in

Dar

chul

a N

epal

• Tr

aini

ng o

n le

ader

ship

and

ent

erpr

ise

deve

lopm

ent

skill

s w

ith e

xpos

ure

visi

t to

vario

us c

oope

rativ

es in

Ka

thm

andu

con

duct

ed fo

r lea

ders

of t

he a

llo g

roup

s in

N

epal

• In

tere

sted

farm

ers

to ta

ke u

p al

lo a

s an

alte

rnat

ive

livel

ihoo

d op

tion

incr

easi

ng fr

om 2

0 to

now

120

alre

ady

regi

stere

d in

gro

ups

and

mor

e gr

oups

hav

e in

dica

ted

to

join

• A

s a

next

ste

p to

war

ds li

nkin

g pr

oduc

ts to

big

ger

mar

ket,

Kaila

sh V

C p

rodu

ct w

ill b

e pu

t on

exhi

bitio

n in

up

-com

ing

inte

rnat

iona

l exh

ibiti

on in

Kat

hman

du. T

his

will

invo

lve

bran

ding

, lab

ellin

g, a

nd p

rodu

ct d

esig

n.

• D

istri

butio

n of

rock

et(im

prov

ed) s

tove

for e

nerg

y ef

ficie

ncy

as w

ell a

s co

nser

ving

fore

st ha

s be

en

succ

essf

ul w

ith le

ss fi

re w

ood

cons

umpt

ion

as w

ell

adop

tion

by m

ore

and

mor

e fa

rmer

s an

d in

crea

sing

de

man

d

• D

emon

strat

ion

plot

to s

ee p

oten

tial f

or c

ultiv

atio

n of

al

lo a

s w

ell a

s su

stain

able

har

vesti

ng tr

aini

ng is

ong

oing

fo

r sus

tain

abili

ty o

f pro

duct

ion

• Th

e sa

les

of K

SL-In

dia

VC p

rodu

cts

unde

r “Ka

ilash

Br

and”

hav

e al

read

y sta

rted,

inco

mes

real

ized

, and

big

re

spon

se w

as a

lso g

ot a

t Ind

ia-IC

IMO

D w

eek

in D

elhi

• In

TA

R C

hina

pilo

ts ca

paci

ty b

uild

ing

an lo

cal

inve

stmen

ts on

veg

etab

le a

nd c

hees

e va

lue

chai

ns h

ave

been

initi

ated

, how

ever

bas

elin

es a

re s

till n

ot c

ompl

ete

• Ex

posu

re o

f Pul

an g

over

nmen

t and

Tou

rism

sta

keho

lder

s to

alp

ine

susta

inab

le to

uris

m a

nd

cons

erva

tion

prac

tices

in G

erm

any

• U

nexp

ecte

d an

d sh

ort

notic

es o

n in

acce

ssib

ility

of

pilo

t reg

ion

to re

sear

cher

s an

d co

untry

par

tner

s is

hin

dran

ce

• D

ue to

ear

thqu

ake

as w

ell

as p

oliti

cal i

nsta

bilit

y of

last

4 m

onth

s in

Nep

al h

as c

urta

iled

the

field

vis

its to

tally

and

som

e de

lay

in p

lann

ed a

ctiv

ities

is

obse

rved

.

• Pe

rmit

acqu

isiti

on to

vis

it th

e ar

ea o

f wor

k in

TA

R C

hina

ha

s be

en a

tim

e co

nsum

ing

task

. Per

mit

acqu

isiti

on d

elay

s w

ould

be

inte

rnal

ized

in th

e pl

anni

ng p

roce

ss to

miti

gate

th

e ris

k.

• H

erita

ge to

uris

m re

late

d ac

tiviti

es a

nd o

utco

mes

ther

eof

will

be

the

key

to p

rovi

de

basi

s fo

r Wor

ld H

erita

ge S

ite

nom

inat

ion

proc

ess

of K

SL

• D

ue to

som

e VI

SA is

sue

and

heal

th p

robl

ems

Seni

or

Tour

ism

Spe

cial

ist c

ould

not

co

nduc

t the

fiel

d vi

sit t

o In

dia.

• C

LTS

train

ing

in C

hina

KSL

co

uld

not t

ake

plac

e. D

ue to

po

litic

al is

sues

also

Nep

al K

SL

coul

d no

t be

visi

ted.

How

ever

, C

LTS

wor

k ha

s sta

rted

in K

SL-

Indi

a un

der t

he fu

ll ow

ners

hip

of th

e lo

cal G

over

nmen

t.

• W

e ha

ve p

ursu

ed w

ith c

ount

ry p

artn

ers

in C

hina

on

deliv

ery

of

this

dat

a so

ones

t. It

is e

xpec

ted

that

ana

lytic

al d

ata

will

be

rece

ived

no

w in

ear

ly 2

016

• Ya

k C

hees

e re

late

d re

sour

ce p

erso

ns fr

om K

SL-C

hina

hav

e be

en

reco

mm

ende

d to

buy

the

sim

ple

proc

essi

ng u

nit r

elat

ed e

quip

men

t in

Yunn

an fo

r log

istic

al re

ason

s

• Th

e fir

st an

alys

is d

one

by IF

MR

show

s th

at s

o fa

r the

per

cept

ible

be

nefit

s fro

m S

MS

serv

ices

from

RM

L ar

e no

t cle

ar, w

hich

is p

artly

al

so d

ue to

the

fact

that

with

in o

ne y

ear o

f use

, it m

ay b

e to

o ea

rly

to a

sses

s th

e re

al b

enefi

ts. A

s ra

ndom

sam

plin

g m

etho

d co

uld

not

prov

e ap

plic

able

, now

a d

irect

sur

vey

with

sel

ecte

d fa

rmer

s is

don

e on

the

over

all u

tility

of S

MS

serv

ice.

Cur

rent

ly v

eget

able

farm

ers

are

seei

ng th

e la

rges

t ben

efits

from

suc

h a

serv

ice

and

the

initi

ativ

e ne

eds

to fo

cus

on th

ose

grou

ps w

hich

can

use

the

info

rmat

ion

proa

ctiv

ely.

• C

apac

ity b

uild

ing

need

s to

focu

s on

pro

duct

dev

elop

men

t, m

arke

t lin

kage

and

in e

ngag

ing

priv

ate

sect

or fo

r sus

tain

able

val

ue c

hain

de

velo

pmen

t. A

lso a

n aw

aren

ess

pack

age

is n

eede

d fo

r priv

ate

sect

or in

clud

ing

expo

sure

and

inte

rface

with

VC

pilo

ts.

• H

erita

ge to

uris

m p

lans

nee

d to

be

seen

as

key

inpu

ts to

the

proc

ess

of n

omin

atio

n of

KSL

as

the

wor

ld h

erita

ge s

ite. T

here

fore

th

is a

ssig

nmen

t nee

ds to

be

purs

ued

at c

ount

ry le

vel.

• Fo

r Chi

na, o

ur p

artn

er h

as m

entio

ned

that

the

nom

inat

ion

proc

ess

disc

ussi

on a

nd d

ecis

ion

will

lie

with

TA

R G

over

nmen

t in

Lhas

a. In

In

dia

also

the

proc

ess

has

to s

tart

from

the

state

of U

ttara

khan

d an

d co

untry

par

tner

s ar

e de

man

ding

the

info

rmat

ion

on li

kely

trav

el 8

w

eeks

in a

dvan

ce a

t lea

st (N

ot fo

r Nep

al a

nd B

huta

n). E

xisti

ng

tour

ism

pla

ns/m

aste

r pla

ns n

eed

to b

e an

alys

ed in

term

s of

the

scop

e of

her

itage

ele

men

ts be

ing

take

n up

in s

uch

plan

s. T

here

fore

, la

ying

the

basi

s fo

r rel

evan

t dat

a to

be

cont

ribut

ed to

WH

S no

min

atio

n pr

oces

s th

at w

ill ta

ke y

ears

to c

ompl

ete

is im

porta

nt.

• Im

pres

s up

on p

artn

ers

in T

AR

Chi

na th

at re

spon

sibl

e to

uris

m

rela

ted

activ

ities

are

pre

curs

or to

sus

tain

ed a

nd im

prov

ed lo

cal

livel

ihoo

ds w

hile

KSL

is c

onse

rved

. We

need

to e

xpos

e sta

keho

lder

s in

Chi

na a

nd N

epal

to C

LTS

expe

rienc

e in

KSL

-Indi

a.

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2. E

cosy

stem

m

anag

emen

t fo

r su

stai

ning

se

rvic

es

2.1

Seve

n A

ctio

n Re

sear

ch P

lans

im

plem

ente

d ac

cord

ing

to

the

esta

blis

hed

stand

ard

2.2

Com

mun

ity

base

d Lo

cal

Ecos

yste

m

Man

agem

ent

Plan

s de

velo

ped

and

impl

emen

tatio

n su

ppor

ted

2.3

Com

mun

ity

base

d Re

sour

ces

Man

agem

ent

Plan

s de

velo

ped

and

impl

emen

tatio

n su

ppor

ted

2.1.

1. L

ands

cape

le

vel v

ulne

rabi

lity

asse

ssm

ent c

ondu

cted

2.2.

1. E

S in

tegr

ity

and

serv

ices

of

criti

cal h

abita

ts id

entifi

ed,

mon

itore

d an

d va

luat

ed

(Com

plet

e Va

luat

ion

of a

ll se

rvic

es)

2.2.

1 &

2.3

.1. A

t le

ast 5

cap

acity

bu

ildin

g (e

xpos

ure,

tra

inin

gs, l

earn

ing

visi

ts) e

vent

s or

gani

zed

2.3.

1. C

omm

unity

ba

sed

reso

urce

pla

ns

base

d on

eco

syste

m

man

agem

ent

prin

cipl

es d

evel

oped

an

d im

plem

ente

d

2.1.

1. P

NRM

as

sess

men

t rep

ort

on e

colo

gica

l vu

lner

abili

ty

incl

udin

g lo

cal

issu

es p

repa

red.

Vuln

erab

ility

as

sess

men

t of

pilo

t lan

dsca

pes

asse

ssed

.

2.1.

1 A

sses

smen

t of

crit

ical

hab

itats

mon

itore

d an

d va

luat

ed (r

epor

t)

2.2.

1 Tr

aini

ng

and

awar

enes

s co

nduc

ted

for

pilo

t site

s

2.3.

1 E

cosy

stem

m

anag

emen

t fra

mew

orks

te

sted

and

inte

grat

ed in

to

loca

l pla

ns

in th

ree

pilo

t vi

llage

s

• P

NRM

pro

cess

es h

as b

een

culm

inat

ed in

all

thre

e co

untri

es.

With

impl

emen

tatio

n of

PN

RM p

lans

in

proc

ess

in In

dia

and

Nep

al•

Stu

dies

are

on

and

carb

on b

asel

ine

on ra

ngel

ands

in

Bajh

ang

distr

ict i

s co

llect

ed th

roug

h IC

IMO

D’s

Regi

onal

RE

DD

+ In

itiat

ive

•

“St

ate

Eco-

Task

For

ce”

is b

eing

sou

ght b

y ou

r par

tner

s to

pro

vide

the

basi

s fo

r lev

erag

ing

affo

resta

tion

inpu

ts in

th

e w

hole

KSL

Indi

a

• In

KSL

-Nep

al, t

he w

ork

on in

vasiv

e sp

ecie

s and

ag

robi

odive

rsity

has

star

ted,

at t

he sa

me

time

in K

SL-In

dia

rem

oval

of i

nvas

ive sp

ecie

s Eup

ator

ium

has

bee

n in

itiate

d in

pi

lot a

reas

whi

le d

oing

sele

ctive

tree

pla

ntat

ion

to su

ppre

ss th

e w

eed.

”•

Map

ping

of s

prin

gs c

omm

unity

leve

l aw

aren

ess;

ca

paci

ty b

uild

ing

of p

artn

ers

on s

prin

gs a

nd it

s si

gnifi

canc

e to

wat

er s

ecur

ity in

pilo

t reg

ions

con

clud

ed;

Sprin

g hy

drog

eolo

gy a

pplie

d re

sear

ch in

KSL

Indi

a an

d N

epal

is o

ngoi

ng w

ith in

volv

emen

t of l

ocal

com

mun

ities

;

• S

AN

DEE

has

alre

ady

had

the

first

roun

d of

fiel

d vi

sits

in K

SL In

dia

and

Nep

al w

ith IC

IMO

D p

rofe

ssio

nals

on

the

subj

ect a

nd p

artn

er/s

take

hold

er d

iscu

ssio

n ou

tput

s in

pi

lots

are

used

to d

esig

n a

com

preh

ensi

ve v

alua

tion

of

ecos

yste

m s

ervi

ces

met

hodo

logy

. C

hine

se p

artn

ers

have

de

cide

d to

und

ergo

a tr

aini

ng c

ours

e ne

xt y

ear b

efor

e go

ing

to fi

eld.

• T

rain

ing

of lo

cal r

esou

rces

per

sons

from

KSL

Indi

a o

n sp

rings

heds

man

agem

ent;

awar

enes

s do

ne to

sen

sitiz

e lo

cals

abou

t wat

er q

ualit

y an

d qu

antit

y in

pilo

t are

as

(Ban

s M

aito

li w

ater

shed

) Cap

acity

bui

ldin

g of

the

partn

ers

(rese

arch

er) a

nd lo

cal s

take

hold

ers

on I

nteg

rate

d pa

rtici

pato

ry n

atur

al re

sour

ces

man

agem

ent (

PNRM

) pl

anni

ng t

hrou

gh o

rgan

isatio

n of

trai

ning

. Sta

keho

lder

s ar

e se

nsiti

zed

and

capa

cita

ted

on lo

cal p

lann

ing

proc

ess

and

coor

dina

tion.

• T

he e

cosy

stem

man

agem

ent f

ram

ewor

k af

ter h

avin

g be

en im

plem

ente

d in

hor

izon

tal l

ands

cape

of K

SL jo

intly

w

ith In

do-N

epal

par

ticip

ants

has

now

bee

n ap

plie

d in

the

verti

cal l

ands

cape

with

the

supp

ort o

f IC

IMO

D.

• A

n in

tegr

ated

PN

RM p

lan

of H

imkh

ola

villa

ge in

ver

tical

la

ndsc

ape

of K

SL In

dia

prep

ared

. Thi

s was

follo

wed

up

by a

cr

oss-v

isit a

cros

s the

bor

der t

o AN

CA

of N

epal

supp

orte

d by

IC

IMO

D

• M

appi

ng o

f spr

ings

and

com

mun

ity le

vel a

war

enes

s;

capa

city

bui

ldin

g of

par

tner

s on

spr

ings

hed

man

agem

ent

and

its s

igni

fican

ce to

wat

er s

ecur

ity in

pilo

t reg

ions

in

itiat

ed;

Sprin

g hy

drog

eolo

gy a

pplie

d re

sear

ches

on

goin

g; p

artn

ersh

ips

with

lead

gro

undw

ater

insti

tute

A

CAW

DA

M In

dia;

•

The

loca

l PN

RM p

lans

join

tly d

evel

oped

by

partn

ers

with

maj

or fa

cilit

atio

n fro

m IC

IMO

D,

have

bee

n ac

cept

ed a

s a

subs

et o

f lar

ger A

NC

A m

anag

emen

t pla

n,

and

have

bee

n en

dors

ed b

y th

e M

oFSC

, Gov

ernm

ent i

f N

epal

.•

TA

R C

hina

pilo

t pla

ns h

ave

impr

oved

nor

ms

and

loca

l inv

estm

ents

are

alre

ady

carri

ed to

sup

port

thes

e pl

ans.

• M

icro

pla

ns a

nd o

ther

m

anag

emen

t pla

ns w

ill n

eed

to c

ulm

inat

e at

Lan

dsca

pe

appr

oach

whi

ch is

stil

l ev

olvi

ng a

nd it

s m

ains

tream

ing

can

take

tim

e as

all

cons

erva

tion

rela

ted

land

is

with

fore

st de

partm

ents

or w

ith

the

state

.

• Th

e re

sidu

al p

roje

ct ti

me

may

not

be

enou

gh to

test

an

ince

ntiv

e ba

sed

mec

hani

sm o

n th

e gr

ound

• Sp

rings

hed

appr

oach

will

fin

d sp

ace

in la

ndsc

ape

appr

oach

not

vic

e-ve

rsa.

• Ex

pect

atio

ns o

f loc

al

com

mun

ities

are

get

ting

very

hi

gh a

nd a

ny d

elay

in s

ome

cons

truct

ive

activ

ities

ofte

n le

ads

to d

isin

tere

st.

• Th

e hi

ghes

t dec

isio

n m

aker

s fro

m th

e in

divi

dual

sta

te m

inis

tries

, lo

cal G

over

nmen

t pla

ns n

eed

to b

e ta

ken

in c

onsi

dera

tion

from

the

ince

ptio

n of

the

wor

k. T

hrou

gh a

fina

l mul

ti-sta

keho

lder

dia

logu

e an

d pr

iorit

y-se

tting

app

rova

l lan

dsca

pe a

ppro

ach

need

to c

ombi

ne

com

mun

ity p

riorit

ies,

sci

entifi

c da

ta a

nd lo

cal p

lans

to a

rticu

late

la

ndsc

ape

appr

oach

in p

ract

ice

• Pa

rtner

insti

tute

has

recr

uite

d a

geoh

ydro

logi

st in

KSL

Indi

a.

• W

e ne

ed to

ens

ure

that

par

tner

cap

aciti

es a

re b

uilt

and

valu

atio

n of

eco

syste

m s

ervi

ces

lead

s to

testi

ng o

f inc

entiv

e ba

sed

mec

hani

sms/

paym

ent f

or e

cosy

stem

ser

vice

s m

odel

s in

KSL

: Also

IC

IMO

D’s

regi

onal

RED

D p

rogr

amm

e sh

ould

be

scop

ed fo

r bei

ng

appl

ied

in K

SL-In

dia

base

d on

the

carb

on s

tock

dat

a an

d in

stitu

tiona

l an

alys

is d

one

by th

e pa

rtner

s an

d th

is s

houl

d be

then

the

appr

oach

in

oth

er p

arts

of th

e la

ndsc

ape

• Sp

rings

heds

sho

uld

be s

een

as a

n in

tegr

al p

art o

f the

land

scap

e ec

osys

tem

ser

vice

s dy

nam

ics

and

mus

t find

spa

ce in

the

over

all l

ong

term

pla

nnin

g an

d m

anag

emen

t as

wel

l as

loca

l mon

itorin

g

• W

e no

w n

eed

to c

onso

lidat

e lo

cal l

evel

PN

RM p

roce

ss a

nd

plan

ning

to la

ndsc

ape

leve

l pla

nnin

g an

d its

impl

emen

tatio

n at

sca

le

in a

ll co

untri

es.

• En

dors

emen

t of P

NRM

pla

ns a

s a

subs

et o

f AN

CA

man

agem

ent

plan

by

the

MoF

SC n

eed

to b

e im

plem

ente

d, w

hich

then

will

in

tern

aliz

e th

e pr

oces

s of

par

ticip

ator

y pl

anni

ng d

one

at lo

cal l

evel

up

scal

ing

to a

land

scap

e le

vel p

lan.

19

3. A

cces

s an

d be

nefit

sha

ring

from

gen

etic

re

sour

ces

and

asso

ciat

ed

trad

ition

al

Know

ledg

e

3.1

Trad

ition

al

Know

ledg

e Sy

stem

on

biod

iver

sity

re

sour

ces

avai

labl

e

3.2

Doc

umen

tatio

n on

Com

mun

ity

Righ

ts an

d Be

nefit

Sha

ring

from

bio

logi

cal

reso

urce

s av

aila

ble

3.3

Insti

tutio

nal

Cap

aciti

es

rega

rdin

g th

e A

BS m

echa

nism

is

stre

ngth

ened

3.1.

1. T

radi

tiona

l kn

owle

dge

on

biod

iver

sity

incl

udin

g A

gro-

biod

iver

sity

do

cum

ente

d fro

m

pilo

t site

s;

3.1.

2. C

omm

unity

bi

odiv

ersi

ty re

giste

rs

(CBR

) pre

pare

d an

d m

aint

aine

d by

BM

C

in p

ilots;

3.2.

1. O

ne P

olic

y br

ief o

n co

ntex

t re

leva

nt a

nd

appl

icab

le A

BS

mec

hani

sm in

Chi

na

is p

repa

red

and

sh

ared

with

key

sta

keho

lder

s

3.2.

1. S

tudy

repo

rts

on ri

ghts

and

bene

fit

shar

ing

mec

hani

sm o

f bi

olog

ical

reso

urce

s fo

r com

mun

ities

in

two

pilo

t site

s, m

ade

avai

labl

e

3.2.

1.

One

D

ocum

ent o

n A

BS

from

bio

logi

cal

sour

ces

by 1

2/20

14

1. T

K do

cum

enta

tion

from

pilo

t site

s in

Bu

rang

Cou

nty

2. C

BR

prep

arat

ion

for

2014

1. B

ased

on

gaps

foun

d in

20

13 o

n Po

licy;

in

terv

entio

ns

plan

ned

2.Pa

rtici

pato

ry

biod

iver

sity

do

cum

enta

tion;

do

cum

ent o

n bi

odiv

ersi

ty

herit

age

site

s;

peop

le’s

biod

iver

sity

re

giste

rs a

nd

prot

ocol

s de

velo

ped

for 3

pi

lot s

ites

(in K

SL

Indi

a)

3.O

ne s

ub-

natio

nal

wor

ksho

p;

1 na

tiona

l w

orks

hop

on

ABS

; cap

acity

bu

ildin

g at

pilo

t si

tes

(repo

rts in

N

epal

)

“• I

CIM

OD

has

bee

n fa

cilit

atin

g th

e TK

doc

umen

tatio

n in

Nep

al th

roug

h th

e KS

L-Ind

ia p

ilots

exam

ples

, Ini

tiativ

e le

ads

are

also

pro

activ

ely

invo

lved

in fi

eld

rela

ted

task

s of

doc

umen

tatio

n in

Dha

rchu

la a

nd B

aita

di. S

imila

rly,

wor

k fo

r KSL

-Chi

na w

ould

soo

n in

itiat

e w

here

ICIM

OD

is

goin

g to

act

as

a co

nnec

ting

brid

ge o

n tra

nsfe

rrin

g th

e kn

owle

dge

on d

ocum

enta

tion.

• KS

L-chi

na, o

ne A

BS p

olic

y re

sear

ch p

aper

has

bee

n dr

afte

d ba

sed

on le

arni

ng in

Pul

an P

ilots.

• A

grob

iodi

vers

ity d

ocum

enta

tion

for 6

iden

tified

BM

Cs

in th

ree

pilo

t site

s in

itiat

ed. M

anua

l (dr

aft)

for

parti

cipa

tory

agr

obio

dive

rsity

ass

essm

ent p

repa

red.

”

• I

n KS

L-Ind

ia, e

stabl

ishm

ent o

f BM

Cs

is le

adin

g to

the

disc

ussi

on o

n in

stitu

tiona

l com

plex

ity a

t the

loca

l lev

el

and

impl

icat

ions

are

yet

to k

now

. How

ever

PBR

’s ar

e pr

epar

ed o

nly

in K

SL In

dia.

• D

raft

is p

repa

red

ICIM

OD

has

pro

vide

d ou

tline

and

re

gion

al le

arni

ng o

n th

e su

bjec

t.

• D

raft

PBRs

for 4

iden

tified

vill

ages

dur

ing

prev

ious

yea

r ar

e un

der fi

nal r

evie

w fo

r app

rova

l and

pub

licat

ion.

6

new

BM

C fo

rmat

ion

in K

SL In

dia.

1 s

tate

leve

l wor

ksho

p fa

cilit

ated

to re

cogn

ize

key

BMC

s es

tabl

ished

in s

tate

and

go

vern

men

t app

rove

d do

cum

ent r

elea

sed

for f

orm

atio

n of

BM

Cs

• O

ne d

istri

ct le

vel w

orks

hop

orga

nise

d in

Dar

chul

a, tw

o co

nsul

tativ

e w

orks

hops

“• IC

IMO

D is

faci

litat

ing

this

for C

hina

and

re

late

d ac

tiviti

es w

ill b

e ex

ecut

ed in

nex

t qua

rter.

•

ABS

bill

dra

fted

unde

r the

MFS

C g

uida

nce

and

inpu

ts fro

m M

inis

try o

f Law

and

Justi

ce is

sub

mitt

ed to

the

Cab

inet

onl

y af

ter p

rom

ulga

tion

of n

ew c

onsti

tutio

n an

d in

stalla

tion

of n

ew G

over

nmen

t of N

epal

will

this

bill

go

to P

arlia

men

t. IC

IMO

D is

par

t of t

he ta

sk fo

rce

on th

is.

• O

ne lo

cal l

evel

exc

hang

e vi

sit t

o In

dia

was

po

stpon

ed to

Feb

ruar

y 20

16; 1

hig

h le

vel e

xcha

nge

visi

t to

Chi

na is

wai

ting

for M

FSC

app

rova

l.

• O

ne T

oT is

org

anis

ed fo

r Nep

ali g

over

nmen

t offi

cial

s

In K

SL-C

hina

, She

ngdi

Tou

rist C

ompa

ny in

Pul

an c

ount

y is

read

y to

pro

vide

sup

port

for A

BS a

war

enes

s ra

isin

g m

ater

ial.

“

• Tw

o co

nsul

tativ

e w

orks

hop

at lo

cal l

evel

and

One

re

gion

al w

orks

hop

orga

nise

d by

ICIM

OD

• H

arsh

win

ter i

n KS

L- C

hina

hin

ders

the

proc

ess

of o

rgan

isin

g tra

inin

g an

d w

orks

hops

.

• Se

lect

ion

of s

ervi

ce

prov

ider

s (N

epal

) nee

ds to

be

in li

ne w

ith G

over

nmen

t pr

ocur

emen

t act

. The

pro

cess

is

leng

thy,

whi

ch im

pact

on

deliv

ery

on ti

me.

• N

eed

to s

tream

line

with

lo

cal g

over

nmen

t pol

icy,

whi

ch

is c

oncr

etel

y no

t ava

ilabl

e on

ABS

, as

Chi

na h

as n

ot

ratifi

ed N

agoy

a pr

otoc

ol a

nd

dom

estic

legi

slatio

n is

not

av

aila

ble.

• N

epal

is u

nder

pol

itica

l tra

nsiti

on a

nd c

onsti

tutio

n ju

st pr

omul

gate

d ha

s no

t bee

n ac

cept

ed b

y al

l gro

ups.

ABS

bi

ll ca

n be

del

ayed

furth

er.

• Th

roug

h KS

L w

e w

ould

nee

d to

mob

ilise

the

coun

tries

of N

epal

an

d C

hina

tow

ards

doc

umen

tatio

n of

TK.

ICIM

OD

is a

lread

y fa

cilit

atin

g it

in N

epal

thro

ugh

the

exam

ples

of K

SL-In

dia

pilo

ts.

•

A p

rope

r fiel

d tri

p pl

an b

efor

e th

e ac

tivity

pla

nnin

g he

lps

to

over

com

e th

e ch

alle

nges

impo

sed

due

to th

e w

eath

er c

ondi

tions

.

• C

urre

ntly

par

tner

s ar

e be

ing

conv

eyed

that

suc

h da

tase

ts m

ust fi

nd

use

in P

NRM

pro

cess

, and

whi

le w

e im

plem

ent a

nd le

vera

ge o

ther

pu

blic

inve

stmen

ts, w

e m

ust e

nsur

e th

at T

K an

d ot

her p

roto

cols

are

hono

ured

. Mor

eove

r act

iviti

es c

an b

e pl

anne

d th

at h

elp

biod

iver

sity

re

late

d TK

is m

aint

aine

d

• In

clo

se c

oord

inat

ion

with

loca

l /co

unty

gov

ernm

ent,

PBR

can

be

strea

mlin

ed w

ithin

loca

l gov

ernm

ent p

lann

ing

proc

ess.

• Th

ese

activ

ities

nee

d to

be

mad

e pa

rt of

oth

er c

ompo

nent

s an

d es

peci

ally

loca

l pla

nnin

g pr

oces

ses

and

plan

s, a

nd n

atur

al re

sour

ce

base

d pr

oduc

ts as

par

t of l

ivel

ihoo

ds. P

artn

ers

need

to c

onve

rge

on

this

com

pone

nt in

the

long

er ru

n.

• Ke

ep s

uppo

rting

sta

keho

lder

s’ a

nd c

onsu

ltatio

ns to

kee

p A

BS b

ill

in a

gend

a fo

r the

gov

ernm

ent.

20

4. C

onse

rvat

ion

and

long

-term

en

viro

nmen

tal

mon

itorin

g

4.1

Con

serv

atio

n St

rate

gy P

lans

op

erat

iona

lized

an

d im

plem

enta

tion

in e

ach

pilo

t site

su

ppor

ted

4.2

Long

-term

Bi

odiv

ersi

ty

Mon

itorin

g Sy

stem

s de

velo

ped

and

impl

emen

tatio

n su

ppor

ted

Chi

na:

4.1.

1.   

    

Con

serv

atio

n str

ateg

ies

(Geo

spat

ial

anal

ysis

and

rep

ort

of ra

ngel

and

carr

ying

ca

paci

ty, o

verg

razi

ng

and

degr

adat

ion

) ran

gela

nds

impl

emen

ted

in p

ilot

site

s (c

ritic

al h

abita

ts de

mar

cate

d, c

orrid

ors

iden

tified

in p

ilot

site

s)4.

1.2.

      

  M

anag

emen

t pla

n fo

r hu

man

-wild

life

confl

ict

in p

ilots

4.1.

3.   

    

Aw

aren

ess

need

s as

sess

men

t as

per

stake

hold

ers’

type

s an

d cu

stom

ised

aw

aren

ess

pack

age

deve

lope

d4.

2.1.

M

onito

ring

syste

ms

deve

lope

d (C

ompr

ehen

sive

m

onito

ring

prot

ocol

: C

limat

e an

d Ve

geta

tion

mon

itorin

g et

c.).

in 2

pilo

ts4.

2.2.

C

apac

ity

build

ing

of in

stitu

tions

en

sure

d at

the

loca

l lev

el (O

n-si

te

train

ings

,. ex

posu

re

visi

ts ba

sed

on g

ood

prac

tices

)4.

2.3.

D

ata/

info

rmat

ion

mad

e av

aila

ble

and

acce

ssib

le (o

n cl

imat

e an

d ve

geta

tion

chan

ge

1. T

rain

ing

repo

rt on

env

ironm

enta

l m

onito

ring,

ve

geta

tion

and

soil

of p

ilot a

reas

2. E

xpos

ure

visi

t rep

ort o

n ec

osys

tem

and

LT

SEM

site

s in

ea

stern

Tib

et

3. T

echn

ical

re

port

and

mon

itorin

g pr

otoc

ols

deve

lope

d in

pi

lot a

reas

1. A

t lea

st 3

LTSE

M s

ites

in g

rass

land

s es

tabl

ishe

d

• C

olle

ctio

n of

veg

etat

ion

map

ping

rela

ted

data

, the

ir ge

ospa

tial a

naly

sis

and

harm

onis

atio

n ha

s be

en d

one

as

per a

met

hodo

logy

pre

pare

d by

ICIM

OD

’s G

eosp

atia

l Th

eme

and

train

ing

desi

gn a

nd d

eliv

ery

coul

d no

t be

done

in p

lann

ed 3

rd q

uarte

r of t

he y

ear a

s th

e cu

rren

t po

litic

al s

ituat

ion

betw

een

Indi

a an

d N

epal

are

not

co

nduc

ive.

• Fi

nal v

alid

atio

n an

d en

dors

emen

t of s

eam

less

ve

geta

tion

type

cla

ssifi

catio

n sy

stem

by

thre

e co

untri

es

was

don

e in

Dec

embe

r 201

5. T

his

has

been

fully

led

by IC

IMO

D fr

om it

s C

ompo

nent

5 a

nd th

is d

ata

will

be

use

d to

iden

tify

and

plan

for c

onse

rvat

ion

strat

egy

impl

emen

tatio

n.

• Th

e pa

rtner

in In

dia

is fi

rst o

rgan

isin

g no

w a

cro

ss-

bord

er c

apac

ity b

uild

ing

even

t on

the

subj

ect a

nd

plan

ning

for m

anag

ing

wild

life

has

been

don

e in

the

last

quar

ter.

Pop

ulat

ion

data

of f

ew a

nim

al ty

pes

is b

eing

co

llect

ed in

KSL

-Indi

a to

bui

ld a

sci

entifi

c ba

sis

for l

ong

term

man

agem

ent.

• Fi

eld

visi

ts to

cap

ture

nee

ds fr

om P

NRM

pro

cess

es o

n pr

iorit

y m

onito

ring

area

s ar

e on

goin

g an

d ac

tiviti

es a

re

bein

g w

orke

d ou

t to

ensu

re th

at lo

ng te

rm b

iodi

vers

ity

mon

itorin

g is

ope

ratio

naliz

ed

• Fo

rest

ecos

yste

m s

ampl

e pl

ots

are

alre

ady

esta

blis

hed.

IC

IMO

D e

xper

ts ha

ve ta

ken

lead

in N

epal

and

co

mpl

emen

ted

with

on-

site

sug

gesti

ons

in In

dia.

• It

is o

ngoi

ng p

roce

ss a

nd fe

w c

ross

vis

its to

goo

d pr

actic

es in

Nep

al a

nd a

cros

s bo

rder

in K

SL-In

dia

are

plan

ned.

• Th

e KS

LCD

I web

site

is re

desi

gned

, upd

ated

and

is

func

tiona

l.

•Loc

al c

omm

uniti

es a

re

not i

nvol

ved

as s

uch

data

co

llect

ion

is o

ften

very

te

chni

cal a

nd p

eopl

e do

not

ge

t inv

olve

d.•I

t mus

t be

adde

d th

at fi

eld

lear

ning

so

far s

how

s th

at it

ne

eds

subs

tant

ial c

hang

es

in p

olic

y an

d co

nser

vatio

n str

ateg

ies

of a

ll th

ree

natio

ns

sinc

e th

ese

are

very

pro

tect

ive

and

we

need

to fi

nd s

yste

mic

so

lutio

ns th

at w

ill ta

ke m

ore

time

than

env

isag

ed in

this

in

itiat

ive.

•Com

mun

ity o

wne

rshi

p is

of

ten

diffi

cult.

•Lon

g te

rm s

usta

inab

ility

of

suc

h si

tes

as p

erm

anen

t sa

mpl

es.

•The

man

ual f

or g

uidi

ng lo

ng

term

mon

itorin

g is

del

ayed

as

hand

-one

gui

de.

• To

ens

ure

that

this

is

impl

emen

ted

for I

ndia

and

N

epal

, and

late

r a m

odel

de

velo

ped

betw

een

Nep

al

and

Chi

na, a

nd fi

nally

for

thre

e co

untri

es.

•Rep

licab

ility

in o

ther

KSL

co

untri

es.

• W

e ha

ve to

ens

ure

in fu

ture

th

at te

chno

logy

app

lied

and

purc

hase

d fro

m o

utsi

de

the

regi

on is

com

patib

le

with

loca

l inf

orm

atio

n an

d co

mm

unic

atio

n te

chno

logi

es.

• Th

ere

is n

one

or ra

rely

la

ndsc

ape

area

whi

ch a

re

not f

requ

ente

d by

hum

ans

and

cattl

e, th

eref

ore

GLO

RIA

co

ncep

t will

nee

d to

ada

pt to

th

is a

nd d

ata

shou

ld n

ot b

e m

isin

terp

rete

d•O

ften

scie

ntifi

c in

stitu

tions

do

not g

ive

reco

gniti

on to

suc

h pa

ra-ta

xono

mis

ts, o

r suc

h re

sour

ce p

erso

ns m

ove

for a

ne

w jo

b so

that

it tu

rns

out t

o be

dis

inve

stmen

t.

• Th

e ha

rmon

isat

ion

of v

eget

atio

n ty

pes

and

othe

r rel

ated

dat

aset

s ar

e th

e fir

st bu

ildin

g bl

ocks

for f

orgi

ng re

gion

al fo

rum

s of

kno

wle

dge

on th

e su

bjec

t and

we

mus

t pur

sue

regi

onal

coo

pera

tion

and

foru

ms

for o

ther

kno

wle

dge

area

s re

sulti

ng fr

om th

e im

plem

enta

tion

of o

ther

co

mpo

nent

s

• W

e m

ay u

se th

e te

chni

cal e

xpos

ure

trip

of

ICIM

OD

-GIZ

to lo

ok in

to th

is is

sue

in p

ilots

• Th

e re

com

men

datio

ns e

mer

ging

from

Deh

radu

n-Sy

mpo

sium

will

be

used

to a

ddre

ss h

uman

-wild

life

confl

ict i

ssue

s.

• W

e ne

ed to

ent

rust

som

e m

onito

ring

area

s su

ch a

s sp

rings

, in

vasi

ve s

peci

es s

prea

d et

c. to

loca

l com

mun

ities

.

• IC

IMO

D n

eeds

to b

ack

it up

. For

est s

ampl

e pl

ots

are

only

val

id

for I

ndia

and

Nep

al, t

here

fore

we

need

to e

nsur

e ha

rmon

isat

ion

of

met

hodo

logy

and

invo

lvem

ent o

f loc

al c

omm

uniti

es. W

e ne

ed to

use

su

ch d

ata

also

loca

lly w

hile

pla

nnin

g w

ith s

take

hold

ers

to e

nsur

e ut

ility

of s

uch

data

and

impr

ove

owne

rshi

p fo

r man

agem

ent o

f suc

h si

tes.

• Th

e LT

ESM

man

ual s

houl

d be

read

y in

201

6 fir

st ha

lf.

• Th

e de

sign

and

use

of w

eb p

orta

l KSL

CD

I nee

d to

ens

ure

that

tw

o-co

mm

unic

atio

n/sh

arin

g be

twee

n IC

IMO

D a

nd c

ount

ry p

artn

ers

is e

ffect

ive.

21

Indi

a:

4.1.

2. C

apac

ity o

f N

atio

nal,

Stat

e an

d Lo

cal I

nstit

utio

ns b

uilt

for C

S im

plem

enta

tion

4.1.

3. Y

atra

s w

ay

appr

oach

furth

er

stren

gthe

ned

shar

ed

with

oth

er p

artn

ers

4.2.

1. M

onito

ring

site

s (in

clud

ing

GLO

RIA

sum

mits

) at

pi

lot a

reas

iden

tified

/

esta

blis

hed

and

CEM

P m

anua

l pr

epar

ed

4.3.

1. C

apac

ity

of N

atio

nal,

Stat

e an

d Lo

cal I

nstit

utio

ns

built

for C

EMP

impl

emen

tatio

n

4.3.

2. P

ara

taxo

nom

ists

from

co

mm

uniti

es a

nd

front

line

staff

iden

tified

and

ca

paci

ty b

uilt

and

invo

lved

in C

EMP

proc

ess

1. P

artic

ipat

ory

cons

ulta

tion

repo

rts (l

ocal

to

land

scap

es);

field

repo

rts o

n co

rrid

or p

lann

ing

and

map

ping

2. T

rain

ing

of tr

aine

rs fo

r C

BO a

nd lo

cal

insti

tutio

ns re

port;

on

-site

trai

ning

of

para

taxo

nom

ists

and

line

agen

cies

3. 2

Yat

ras

in

horiz

onta

l and

ve

rtica

l tra

nsec

t co

nduc

ted

(Yat

ras

inte

grat

ion

and

findi

ngs

shar

ed)

4. E

stabl

ish

2 G

LORI

A s

ites

and

3 fo

rests

LTSE

M

mon

itorin

g si

tes

• W

e ar

e na

rrow

ing

dow

n to

adj

ustm

ents

such

as

hum

an-w

ildlif

e co

nflic

t man

agem

ent a

nd li

nkin

g m

anag

emen

t pla

ns o

f ASK

OT

(KSL

-Indi

a) a

nd A

NC

A

(KSL

-Nep

al),

whi

ch p

rovi

de a

muc

h pr

actic

al a

ppro

ach

to tr

ansb

ound

ary

coop

erat

ion.

• It

is d

iscu

ssed

with

par

tner

s th

at s

uch

issu

es c

ould

be

tack

led

at th

e re

gion

al le

vel a

nd th

is c

ould

be

basi

s fo

r fu

ture

“Tr

ansb

ound

ary

Dia

logu

e M

echa

nism

” le

adin

g to

tra

nsbo

unda

ry c

oope

ratio

n.

• IC

IMO

D s

uppo

rts th

is p

roce

ss b

y gi

ving

inpu

ts to

cu

rric

ulum

and

par

tner

impl

emen

ts it.

• It

is o

ngoi

ng p

roce

ss a

nd le

arni

ng h

arne

ssed

nee

d to

be

regi

onal

ised

thro

ugh

regi

onal

foru

ms

crea

ted.

The

ne

w d

ata

logg

ers

of G

LORI

A s

ites

are

yet t

o be

pro

cure

d he

nce

data

col

lect

ion

is d

elay

ed

• IC

IMO

D p

rovi

des

train

er a

nd a

lso e

quip

men

t dire

ctly.

• In

KSL

Indi

a th

ese

train

ings

hav

e be

en d

one

with

loca

l yo

uth

and

scho

ol c

hild

ren.

• To

ens

ure

that

this

is

impl

emen

ted

for I

ndia

and

N

epal

, and

late

r a m

odel

de

velo

ped

betw

een

Nep

al

and

Chi

na, a

nd fi

nally

for

thre

e co

untri

es.

•Rep

licab

ility

in o

ther

KSL

co

untri

es.

• W

e ha

ve to

ens

ure

in fu

ture

th

at te

chno

logy

app

lied

and

purc

hase

d fro

m o

utsi

de

the

regi

on is

com

patib

le

with

loca

l inf

orm

atio

n an

d co

mm

unic

atio

n te

chno

logi

es.

• Th

ere

is n

one

or ra

rely

la

ndsc

ape

area

whi

ch a

re

not f

requ

ente

d by

hum

ans

and

cattl

e, th

eref

ore

GLO

RIA

co

ncep

t will

nee

d to

ada

pt to

th

is a

nd d

ata

shou

ld n

ot b

e m

iss-i

nter

pret

ed

•Ofte

n sc

ient

ific

insti

tutio

ns d

o no

t giv

e re

cogn

ition

to s

uch

Para

taxo

nom

ists,

or s

uch

reso

urce

per

sons

mov

e fo

r a

new

job

so th

at it

turn

s ou

t to

be d

isin

vestm

ent.

• W

e m

ust d

emon

strat

e th

at tr

ansb

ound

ary

coop

erat

ion

at

the

grou

nd le

vel i

s po

ssib

le a

nd th

ese

even

ts ar

e im

porta

nt to

de

mon

strat

e th

at in

a p

ract

ical

way

and

in “

Botto

m-U

p” a

ppro

ach.

• Th

is is

a fo

rm o

f con

sulta

tive,

fiel

d an

alys

is b

ased

app

roac

h th

at

can

be a

pplie

d al

so in

TA

R-C

hina

and

Nep

al a

s ou

r wor

k pr

ogre

sses

or

also

KSL

Chi

na a

nd N

epal

sta

keho

lder

s ca

n be

bro

ught

to K

SL-

Indi

a to

dem

onstr

ate

its u

tility

.

• IC

IMO

D n

eeds

to fo

llow

up

if th

e pr

oble

m o

f dat

a lo

gger

s is

so

lved

. Sin

ce th

e eq

uipm

ent h

ad c

ome

from

Ger

man

y, w

e ne

ed to

fo

llow

up

with

GIZ

.

• W

e ne

ed to

mak

e ha

lf-ye

arly

vis

it to

suc

h si

tes

to e

nsur

e th

at th

ese

are

susta

ined

. How

ever

, wea

ther

and

hyd

rolo

gica

l sta

tions

nee

d qu

arte

rly s

uper

visi

on.

• N

eed

to fo

cus

mor

e on

reso

urce

per

sons

who

are

bou

nd to

sta

y in

the

land

scap

e lo

nger

(e.g

. wom

en).

Also

mat

eria

ls co

uld

be

deve

lope

d an

d w

idel

y di

ssem

inat

ed.

22

Nep

al:

4.1.

1.Fo

ur c

ritic

al

habi

tats

iden

tified

in

pilo

t are

as a

nd 4

da

taba

ses

on e

ach

key

eco-

syste

ms

(fore

st, ra

ngel

and,

w

etla

nds

and

agro

) is

avai

labl

e

4.2.

1 Th

ree

Mon

itorin

g si

tes

esta

blis

hed

and

man

aged

Cry

osph

ere

Ass

essm

ent

1. O

n-si

te

train

ing

on lo

ng

term

mon

itorin

g of

AN

CA

, DFO

2. E

xpos

ure

visi

t fin

ding

s; re

port

of A

NC

A a

nd

ASK

OT

3. 3

LTSE

M

(fore

sts) a

nd 3

G

LORI

A s

ites

esta

blis

hed

(fiel

d re

port

and

initi

al fi

ndin

gs);

mon

itorin

g pr

otoc

ols

deve

lope

d in

pi

lot a

reas

4. 1

m

eteo

rolo

gica

l sta

tion

esta

blis

hed

in

AN

CA

bas

e ca

mp

(3,8

00

msl)

• IC

IMO

D is

pro

vidi

ng o

ngoi

ng s

uppo

rt in

AN

CA

in

the

loca

l des

ign

and

deliv

ery

of tr

aini

ng a

nd m

onito

ring

guid

ance

. For

est s

ampl

e pl

ots

are

esta

blis

hed

and

a co

ncep

t not

e on

stu

dyin

g ag

ro-b

iodi

vers

ity is

read

y an

d ag

reed

by

partn

ers

in K

SL In

dia

and

Nep

al. A

stu

dy o

n in

vasi

ve s

peci

es h

as s

tarte

d an

d dr

aft o

utpu

ts ar

e re

ady.

“• O

ne m

ore

GLO

RIA

site

has

bee

n es

tabl

ishe

d in

A

NC

A a

rea,

at t

he s

ame

time

base

line

info

rmat

ion

on

vege

tatio

n ha

s be

en c

olle

cted

.

• A

join

t wor

ksho

p on

ASK

OT-A

NC

A w

as c

ondu

cted

in

KSL

Indi

a an

d co

llabo

rativ

e in

terfa

ces

for l

ands

cape

ba

sed

ecos

yste

m m

anag

emen

t and

oth

er re

quire

men

ts ar

e re

com

men

ded

(com

mun

icat

ion,

mar

kets,

dis

aste

rs)

“• IC

IMO

D h

as p

rovi

ded

tech

nica

l and

logi

stica

l sup

port

to R

ECA

ST a

nd A

NC

A fo

r esta

blis

hing

LTSE

M s

ite fo

r Fo

rest

Ecos

yste

ms.

The

LTSE

M F

ram

ewor

k w

as a

pplie

d in

the

pilo

t are

a w

ith

a co

mm

unity

fore

st an

d its

use

r gro

up.

• IC

IMO

D h

as p

rovi

ded

logi

stica

l sup

port

to D

HM

for

proc

urem

ent o

f equ

ipm

ent’s

.

The

proc

ess

is c

ompl

eted

and

RTS

is a

lread

y pr

ovid

ing

the

serv

ices

.

• C

ompr

ehen

sive

bas

elin

e da

taba

se o

n C

ryos

pher

e (fi

eld

data

, sat

ellit

e im

ager

ies,

gro

und

phot

ogra

phs

and

scie

ntifi

c lit

erat

ure)

has

bee

n de

velo

ped,

this

in

clud

es m

ost u

p to

dat

e da

ta o

n G

laci

ers

and

Snow

co

ver i

n Ka

ilash

Lan

dsca

pe. T

he d

atab

ase

will

be

a m

ajor

bui

ldin

g bl

ock

on e

valu

atin

g th

e ef

fect

of

clim

ate

chan

ge, a

nd it

s im

pact

on

ecos

yste

m s

ervi

ces,

liv

elih

ood

by c

ontri

butin

g in

the

PNRM

pla

nnin

g pr

oces

s.

• D

etai

l wor

k pl

an o

n lo

ng te

rm m

onito

ring

of

cryo

sphe

re fo

r KSL

regi

on h

as b

een

prep

ared

.

• Th

ese

activ

ities

wer

e pl

anne

d in

201

2 by

all

coun

tries

whe

n fo

cus

was

on

cons

erva

tion

rela

ted

activ

ities

. H

owev

er, n

ow th

e m

essa

ge

is b

eing

giv

en to

par

tner

s th

at h

arne

ssin

g of

thes

e da

ta

mus

t hel

p in

refin

ing

PNRM

pl

ans

and

also

impr

ove

loca

l liv

elih

oods

to m

ake

thes

e pr

actic

al in

puts

• D

ue to

the

curr

ent d

own-

turn

of I

ndo-

Nep

al b

ilate

ral

rela

tions

hip,

we

have

nor

mal

ly

dela

ys in

suc

h ac

tiviti

es.

•Sus

tain

abili

ty o

f suc

h sta

tions

/sam

ples

nee

ds

partn

er’s

owne

rshi

p th

at

dem

ands

a lo

ng te

rm fi

nanc

ial

secu

rity

as w

ell.

• Ti

mel

y ar

rival

of s

enso

rs a

nd

parts

ord

ered

from

Ger

man

y to

Nep

al fo

r the

Nep

ali

insti

tute

to a

ssem

ble.

• Sa

mpl

ing

plot

s an

d stu

dies

mus

t be

esta

blis

hed

and

com

plet

ed in

20

15.

• Th

is s

houl

d se

rve

as y

et a

noth

er tr

ansb

ound

ary

coop

erat

ion

mod

el

on g

ood

natu

ral r

esou

rce

gove

rnan

ce a

nd th

eref

ore

need

to p

repa

re

acco

rdin

gly.

Fin

ally,

it s

houl

d be

repl

icat

ed a

cros

s/be

twee

n th

ree

coun

tries

as

grou

nd-le

vel c

oope

ratio

n.

• W

e ne

ed to

follo

w u

p ha

lf ye

arly.

•We

need

to s

uper

vise

RTS

on

timel

y an

d ef

fect

ive

deliv

ery

on

tech

nica

l bac

ksto

ppin

g.

• Th

e da

taba

se h

as b

een

deve

lope

d in

col

labo

ratio

n w

ith

Dep

artm

ent o

f Hyd

rolo

gy a

nd M

eteo

rolo

gy, G

over

nmen

t of N

epal

, m

akin

g it

a jo

int v

entu

re w

hich

sec

ures

the

long

term

sus

tain

abili

ty

of th

e ta

sk.

23

5. R

egio

nal

coop

erat

ion,

en

ablin

g po

licie

s an

d kn

owle

dge

man

agem

ent

5.1

Nat

iona

l an

d Lo

cal P

olic

y Fo

rum

s m

ade

func

tiona

l

5.2

Regi

onal

Pl

atfo

rm a

nd

Exch

ange

fa

cilit

ated

5.3

Know

ledg

e M

anag

emen

t and

C

omm

unic

atio

n fa

cilit

ated

5.1.

1.

Fou

r NC

C

mee

tings

hel

d by

20

16

5.2.

1.

KSL

sta

keho

lder

re

pres

enta

tives

pa

rtici

pate

in

regi

onal

/nat

iona

l pl

atfo

rms

at le

ast

1/an

num

(e.g

. A

BS, V

alue

Cha

in

Dev

elop

men

t, C

EMP

)

5.3.

1.

One

re

gion

al in

form

atio

n an

d kn

owle

dge-

shar

ing

and

plat

form

w

ith tw

o-w

ay

com

mun

icat

ions

fu

nctio

nal

1. N

CC

mee

tings

he

ld in

Chi

na

and

Nep

al

2. K

ey K

SL

stake

hold

ers

parti

cipa

te

in re

gion

al

/ na

tiona

l pl

atfo

rms

3. In

tegr

ated

Pl

anni

ng a

nd

Prog

ram

me

man

agem

ent

guid

elin

es

prep

ared

; Re

gion

al

Ecos

yste

m

Man

agem

ent

and

Long

term

En

viro

nmen

tal

and

soci

o ec

onom

ic

(LTSE

M)

fram

ewor

ks

draf

ted

4.

Dev

elop

men

t of

Com

mun

icat

ion

strat

egy

for K

SL

• O

n go

ing

and

in In

dia,

the

foca

l par

tner

GBP

IHED

is

stil

l pur

suin

g to

get

the

final

des

ign

and

appr

oval

of

the

NC

C li

ke b

ody.

In C

hina

, NC

C w

as c

ondu

cted

in

Sept

embe

r with

cle

ar o

utpu

ts fo

r mor

e co

ordi

natio

n am

ongs

t the

par

tner

s

• Th

e ke

y In

do-N

epal

tran

sbou

ndar

y ev

ent o

n hu

man

-w

ildlif

e co

nflic

t and

Ask

ot-A

NC

A, a

nd o

n ha

rmon

izin

g ve

geta

tion

clas

ses

are

deliv

ered

.

•A c

omm

on tr

aini

ng c

ours

e on

“Tr

ansb

ound

ary

Gov

erna

nce”

was

suc

cess

fully

con

duct

ed a

nd

parti

cipa

ted

by a

ll co

untry

par

tner

s an

d no

w IC

IMO

D

will

dev

elop

suc

h a

cour

se in

co-

partn

ersh

ip w

ith

Wag

enin

gen

Uni

vers

ity.

•Reg

iona

l Yar

sagu

mba

wor

ksho

p af

ter c

ompi

ling

and

unde

rsta

ndin

g na

tiona

l per

spec

tives

was

org

anis

ed a

nd

key

reco

mm

enda

tions

for p

athw

ay a

head

hav

e be

en

mad

e.

• Th

e an

nual

revi

ew a

nd p

lann

ing

even

t was

con

duct

ed

succ

essf

ully

and

par

ticip

ated

by

DFI

D a

nd G

IZ, a

nd a

lso

by IC

I as

obse

rver

.

•The

pol

icy

synt

hesi

s on

the

sym

posi

um “

Tran

sfor

min

g M

ount

ain

Fore

stry”

is p

ublis

hed

and

diss

emin

ated

.

•The

LTES

M fr

amew

ork

elem

ents

are

bein

g ad

opte

d by

KSL

cou

ntry

par

tner

s an

d Ec

osys

tem

Man

agem

ent

fram

ewor

k is

to b

e fin

alis

ed.

“• M

ains

tream

ing

of C

omm

unic

atio

n str

ateg

y ga

ined

pa

ce a

s th

e co

nsul

tant

re-jo

ined

and

sev

eral

dra

ft pr

oduc

ts w

ere

pres

ente

d du

ring

the

annu

al p

lann

ing

and

revi

ew w

orks

hop,

UN

FCC

C a

nd In

dia-

ICIM

OD

W

eek

with

lead

take

n in

com

pone

nt 1

.

• A

dditi

onal

ly o

ne s

mal

l doc

umen

tary

“”A

cros

s M

ahak

ali”

” ha

s be

en u

ploa

ded

and

runn

ing.

• Th

e KS

LCD

I Web

site

now

hos

t mor

e in

tera

ctiv

e da

ta

porta

l tha

t sta

nds

as a

sin

gle

win

dow

for d

ata

acce

ss

and

com

mun

icat

ion.

•The

dra

ft do

cum

enta

ry o

n “”

Voic

es F

rom

Him

alay

as””

on

ABS

rela

ted

know

ledg

e is

read

y an

d a

TV D

iscu

ssio

n am

ongs

t pol

icym

aker

s ha

s se

t the

pac

e fo

r Nat

iona

l Bi

ll of

Nep

al b

eing

pos

itive

ly c

onsi

dere

d by

the

Gov

ernm

ent.”

•Suc

h na

tiona

l/sta

te le

vel

com

mitt

ees

brin

ging

oth

er s

uch

initi

ativ

es u

nder

one

fold

as

KSLC

DI f

undi

ng is

not

that

hig

h by

gov

ernm

ent s

tand

ards

.

• C

ount

ries

havi

ng d

iffer

ent

stren

gths

, nee

ds a

nd p

oliti

cal

syste

ms

to im

plem

ent s

uch

strat

egy

• So

me

pilo

ts ar

e ve

ry re

mot

e an

d in

vestm

ent c

osts

incl

udin

g tra

vel c

osts

are

very

hig

h.

• Th

is n

eeds

con

siste

nt fo

llow

-up

and

mon

itorin

g th

at th

ese

mee

tings

ar

e ou

tput

orie

nted

and

also

syn

ergy

bet

wee

n th

e co

untry

par

tner

s ge

ts str

onge

r. W

e ne

ed to

sho

w “

Valu

e Fo

r Mon

ey”

in c

ontri

butin

g re

leva

nt d

eman

d-or

ient

ed le

arni

ng to

pol

icym

aker

s an

d pr

actit

ione

rs.

• To

gen

erat

e lo

ng te

rm lo

cal a

nd n

atio

nal s

take

hold

er’s

owne

rshi

p of

the

prog

ram

me

we

mus

t con

tinue

del

iver

y of

inno

vativ

e ac

tiviti

es

such

as

sprin

gshe

d an

d hu

man

-wild

life

confl

ict m

itiga

tion

are

few

of

thes

e an

d m

ust b

e pe

rsis

ted.

•All

regi

onal

eve

nts

mus

t in

the

long

run

prov

ide

the

basi

s fo

r “D

ialo

gue

Plat

form

s at

Tra

nsbo

unda

ry S

cale

” so

that

inno

vativ

e co

oper

atio

n m

eans

can

be

appl

ied

by H

KH c

ount

ries.

•Cap

acity

bui

ldin

g ev

ents

mus

t be

ongo

ing.

• En

gage

men

t of C

onsu

ltant

nee

d to

be

cont

inue

d til

l a fu

lltim

e co

mm

unic

atio

n sp

ecia

list j

oins

for w

hich

vac

ancy

is a

nnou

nced

.

• KS

LCD

I now

nee

ds p

roac

tive

profi

ling

and

artic

ulat

ion

of re

leva

nt

lear

ning

at p

olic

y fo

rum

s.

24

Annex 2. Success Story of the Year 2015

Local Council Established to Improve Protected Area Management in the Kailash Sacred Landscape of Nepal

Api Nampa Conservation Area (ANCA) is a protected area at the far northwest corner of Nepal, bordering Tibet and India. It lies within the Kailash Sacred Landscape and is home to species that include snow leopards, blue sheep and grey wolves. It’s Nepal’s newest community-led conservation area, and from a global and regional perspective, it’s a pioneering effort to manage biodiversity by defining the landscape through ecosystems, an approach encouraged by the Convention on Biological Diversity. It’s also home to many people, some of whom were initially sceptical of having their villages and local forests included in a conservation area when ANCA was established in 2010. So community leaders needed to understand the purpose of the conservation area, recognize its benefits, and trust that people would still maintain their traditional rights to collect resources such as fuel wood, fodder, and the high value caterpillar fungus Yarsagumba (Cordyceps sinensis), whose transboundary trade is economically crucial to many communities. The plan has always called for local people to take the lead in management through the ANCA Management Council, an elected body of representatives from the 21 village development committees that lie within the nearly 2,000 km2 area. So to prepare for the formation of the council, local opinion leaders, including community activists and journalists, were familiarized with key environmental management concepts through exposure visits to Annapurna Conservation Area, Chitwan National Park and the Institute of Forestry in Pokhara. After learning about the on-the-ground realities of managing and living near protected areas from scholars, scientists, women’s groups, foresters and other – people who had experienced first-hand what ANCA was about to embark upon – the group from ANCA went home to share what was learned. ICIMOD experts also trekked for 17 days from village to village with ANCA’s chief wildlife warden and other officials, meeting the people living within ANCA, hearing their concerns, spreading knowledge and building consensus.

The ANCA Management Council that will play such a key role in the future has now been elected and the protected area can begin operating with the support and ownership of local people -- a crucial fact for the long-term preservation of this fragile mountain ecosystem.

Strengthening the Allo Value Chain in Khar VDC, Darchula, Nepal

Allo (Girardinia diversifolia), or Himalayan nettle, is traditionally used in Nepal to make cloth. Its bark contains fibres that are strong and smooth, with a silky lustre. In 2014, the Kailash Sacred Landscape

Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI), under its livelihood component, identified the allo value chain in Khar VDC as an entry point for increasing the income of the poor through value addition, capacity building, and forming market linkages. Allo grows abundantly in the forests around Khar VDC in Darchula, Nepal. Poor and landless Dalits are the primary group engaged in the collection and marketing of allo.

Before the project, communities mostly collected allo and sold it as a raw material to middlemen. The few making allo thread used traditional methods, which are labour and energy intensive and produce poor quality thread. Caustic soda was used to boil the thread, which took at least six hours and 240 kg of wood. Local tools such as the ‘katuwa’ (hand spinner) are used, and the thread produced is coarse and thick. The balls of thread produced in this way fetched around NPR 800 per kilogramme and were used to make carpets.

A market study conducted in early 2014 revealed a high demand for thin and smooth thread for the fashion garment industry. Hence, the project aimed to uplift the allo thread value chain by improving the quality of the thread so that it could be used for fabric. The initiative mobilized grassroots farmers’ 28 groups, such as the Khar Allo Processor Group, which started with about 20 founding members, of which 70% were women. The group received capacity building training on the benefits of collective action, as well as training on leadership and saving and credit schemes. This was followed by rigorous training on allo processing and thread making. The interventions also had a pro-poor and gender focus.

By 2015 March, the group was happy with the thread they were producing. Soaking it overnight make it easier to boil the next day. They used ash instead of caustic soda, which made the thread look cleaner and whiter. Proper washing and spinning techniques made the thread smooth and thin. Rocket stove technology was introduced, which uses almost three times less fuel wood and takes half the time to boil the bark. Today the group is selling allo thread at NPR 1,100 per kilogramme, an increase of NPR 300 per kilogramme (27%). The intervention addressed KLSCDI’s Nepal target output: to strengthen pro-poor and inclusive value chains addressing income improvement, climate change adaptation and water and energy management in order to cater to the overall project’s outcome that livelihoods and ecosystem management are improved in a sustainable and equitable manner in selected areas of the Kailash Sacred Landscape.

Now the project is looking at ways to increase the volume of allo thread produced and the number of beneficiaries, as well as making a finished product like yarn or woven shawls.

25

Regional Dialogue Mechanisms for Strengthening Transboundary Cooperation and Sharing Practices And Knowledge

Growing in the alpine meadows of the KSL Cordyceps or Caterpillar mushroom due to its medicinal value has the tag of so called “Himalayan gold rush”. However, its current harvesting practices are unsustainable as assessed during the piloting work in Nepalese KSL. Given the tremendous scope for using Cordyceps as catalyst for equitable and sustainable development in KSL, its management is project’s focus. In the whole HKH, Bhutan is ahead in the management of the Cordyceps, and has lot to share also on trade experiences, as well as marketing options through tested auctioning system. Building on national perspectives from all the three participating countries a regional dialogue for ‘Tracking options for sustainable management and trade on Yarsagumba in the Kailash Landscape” event was hosted by Bhutan Ministry of Agriculture. All KSL country partners participated to share their knowledge and issues of unsustainable harvesting practices and learned from Bhutanese experiences. The identified regional cooperation priority consisted implementation of long-term monitoring protocol inclusive of biodiversity on a permanent plots across member countries. Facilitation in sharing of policies, rules and regulations and management plans related to Cordyceps through formal and informal networks was the focus of above event. The outcome of this meeting was to help in developing long policy framework for sustainable harvesting of Cordyceps in individual country, based on recent scientific evidences. As a long term regional dialogue mechanism it was agreed to promote and, Conduct assessment of Cordyceps market and develop regional market information system for Cordyceps trade. It was decided to promote transboundary cooperation to control illegal Cordyceps trade. Promoting transparent Cordyceps marketing system for benefit of collectors and consumers was underlined. This event has clearly set the basis for designing and delivering “Regional Dialogues” that have transboundary aspects and potential to contribute to improved livelihoods and ecosystem management in KSL and other transboundary initiatives of the HKH.

26

Annex

3. K

ey E

vents

Sr. N

o.Ev

ent

Chin

aIn

dia

Nep

alM

ale

Fem

ale

Tota

l

1Tr

ansb

ound

ary

expo

sure

vis

it fo

r the

kno

wle

dge

exch

ange

157

22

2Tr

aini

ng o

f tra

iner

s on

com

mun

ity le

d to

tal s

anita

tion

and

susta

inab

le d

evel

opm

ent o

f tou

rism

for K

SL C

hina

pilo

t site

s,

Pula

n co

unty

202

22

3Sc

opin

g M

eetin

g on

KSL

as

a U

NES

CO

WH

S at

ICIM

OD

185

23

4C

apac

ity d

evel

opm

ent o

f Ind

ia K

SLC

DI p

artn

ers

for f

acili

tatin

g PN

RM p

lann

ing

proc

ess

74

11

7Kn

owle

dge

and

expe

rienc

e sh

arin

g on

man

agem

ent o

f Cor

dyce

ps in

KSL

CD

I mem

ber c

ount

ries

and

best

prac

tices

from

Bh

utan

205

25

8C

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27

Annex 4. Total Targeted Beneficiaries in Ksl Pilots

Total targeted beneficiaries in KSL pilots

Country Total Population in Kailash Landscape: Direct + Indirect beneficiaries

Intervention areas in Pilot Sites (Direct beneficiaries)

Summary of Activities/ Targets (till Dec 2015)

China

 

 

 

 

8840 (Pulan County)

 

 

 

 

61% live in Huor and Baga townships of Pulan County

Total population of pilots/activities: 5300

5300 people (male + female) Direct population targeted by activities: 4222

  Number of Female beneficiaries: 688*

  Overall reach of the activity: 27670

   

India

 

 

460000 (Pithoragarh District)

Gangolihat Block: 16380 Total population of pilots/activities: 24534

Pithoragarh Block: 11405 Direct population targeted by activities: 28246

Munakot Block: 4340 Number of Female beneficiaries: 10354*

Himkhola: 1250 Overall reach of the activity: 143019

Jaikot: 3615  

Nepal

 

 

 

564000 (Humla, Bajhang, Baitadi, Darchula districts)

Darchula (Api Nampa Conservation Area): 59000

 

Total population of pilots/activities: 59000

Direct population targeted by activities: 952

Number of Female beneficiaries: 122*

Overall reach of the activity: 69000

* Under reported or not reported in a gender segregated way

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Annex 5. Publications and Online Sites

The knowledge products developed so far have been instrumental in extending the learning and practices of KSLCDI to larger audiences, e.g. KSLIS, an online data sharing platform is a one stop solution for sharing the data, processed products among the KSLCDI partners. This platform is also provides open access to anyone interested outside KSLCDI, allowing to increase reach of our shared learnings. At the same time it reduces redundancy and repetition of work among partners. This mechanism will gradually be converted into regional on-line dialogues for learning networks on common themes and issues. KSLCDI has been the pioneer and this will be now replicated for all major transboundary initiatives thus increasing the outreach and participatory dialogue

Bio-cultural protocol guideline: This publication was prepared to raise awareness about, and improve our understanding of, the customary rights of indigenous and local communities in relation to the use of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge. The book is now being used in KSL-China and KSL-Nepal.

Partners Newsletters: This is a product developed by our KSLCDI-India partners. The newsletter is six monthly information bulletin that updates stakeholders with the progress made so far in the landscape.

LTESM framework informs the process for standardized monitoring in the landscape. It sets the protocol for ecological and socio-ecological monitoring that informs the management decisions in the landscape.

KSLCDI Website has recorded visits of 43857, with highest visit in October following the publication two online piece; 1. Himalayan nettle links marginalised to private sector, 2. Off season vegetables improving rural livelihoods. Next step envisaged is to actively push information through social media platform.

Technical Publications

1. Environmental Stratification of Kailash Sacred Landscape and Projected Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystems and Productivity: Working Paper 2013/1

2. Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) - Regional Programme Implementation Plan 2012 - 2016

3. Caring for Our Transboundary Landscape: Illustrations from the Kailash Sacred Landscape

4. Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative: Feasibility Assessment Report

5. Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative: Developing a transboundary cooperation framework for conservation and sustainable development in the greater Mt Kailash region of China, India, and Nepal: Second Regional Workshop

6. Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative: First Regional Workshop

7. Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative: Target Area Delineation Report

8. Transforming Mountain Forestry in the Hindu Kush Himalayas: Toward a Third-Generation Forest Management Paradigm (2015)

9. Inception Workshop Report: Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative

10. Effective Management of Trans boundary Landscapes-Geospatial Applications

11. Tool for Developing a Bio-cultural Community Protocols

General Publications

1. Annual Report 2013

2. Annual Report 2014

3. Guidelines for Travelling Responsibly in the Kailash Sacred Landscape

4. Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative: Transcending boundaries for conservation and development

5. Eco-Tourism for Sustainable Development in the Kailash Sacred Landscape

6. Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative

7. Long-Term Environmental and Socio-ecological Monitoring in transboundary landscapes. An interdisciplinary implementation framework. ICIMOD Working Paper 2015/2. Kathmandu: ICIMOD

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Popular Articles

1. Groundwater: It’s not a source, it’s a resource

2. Conserving springs and its Significance for Water Security in Himalayas, South Asia Regional Cooperation (SARCist) initiative of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi – India. Newsletter, June 2015.

Peer Reviewed Papers and Book Chapters

1. Pandey, A., Kotru, R., and Pradhan, N. (2015): Kailash Sacred Landscape: Bridging Cultural Heritage, Conservation and Development through a Trans-boundary Landscape Approach. Verschurren, B. (ed.) Asian Sacred Natural Sites: An ancient Asian philosophy and practice with fundamental significance to protected areas. London and New York: Routledge.

2. Uddin, K; Chaudhary, S; Chettri N; Kotru, R; Murthy, MSR; Chaudhary, RP; Ning, W; Shrestha SM; Gautam SG (2015): The changing land cover and fragmenting forest on the Roof of the World: A case study in Nepal’s Kailash Sacred Landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning, 141:1-10.

Posters, Flyers, Fact Sheets

1. Transboundary Landscape Management in Mountain Areas - How does it work?: Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) Global Landscapes Forum, Paris 5–6 December 2015

2. Transboundary Landscape Cooperation Needs Good Communication and Coordination: Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI), Global Landscapes Forum, Paris, 5–6 December 2015

3. Promotion of the Ritha (Soap Nut) Value Chain in Nepal: Sustainable Livelihoods in the Kailash Sacred Landscape

4. Promotion of the Off-Season Vegetable Value Chain in India: Sustainable Livelihoods in the Kailash Sacred Landscape

5. Promotion of the Nigalo (Himalayan Bamboo) Value Chain in Nepal: Sustainable Livelihoods in the Kailash Sacred Landscape

6. Promotion of the Chyura Soap and Lip Balm Value Chain in India: Sustainable Livelihoods in the Kailash Sacred Landscape

7. Promotion of the Chyura Honey Value Chain in India: Sustainable Livelihoods in the Kailash Sacred Landscape

8. Promotion of the Allo (Himalayan Nettle) Value Chain in Nepal: Sustainable Livelihoods in the Kailash Sacred Landscape

9. Partner Factsheet of Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) - India

10. Partner Factsheet of Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) - China

11. Partner Factsheet of Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) - Nepal

12. An Integrated Springshed Management Approach Linking Science, Policy, and Practice: Collaborative applied research in the Kailash Sacred Landscape (India and Nepal)

13. Adapting forest ecosystems in the Kailash Sacred Landscape of the Hindu Kush Himalayas for sustained flow of ecosystem services, Poster presented at IUFRO Conference in 2014

Online Videos

1. Across Mahakali

2. Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative

3. Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative

Media Coverage – Kailash

For Mountain Forestry Symposium: Total Press coverage is 67 (23 with links, 44 without links) See http://www.icimod.org/?q=16480 (lists media coverage with links only) Invited regional media representatives from Bhutan (2); India (3); Nepal (2); good networking with local media in close collaboration with FRI.

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Forest Minister claims Kailash can bring India, China, Nepal together. (2015, January 20). The Pioneer. India. Retrieved from http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/dehradun/forest-minister-claims-kailash-can-bring-india-china-nepal-together.html

Kotru, R. (2015, March 21). System of abundance both climatic and social and economic changes are adding stress on forest ecosystems in Hindu Kush Himalayas”. Republica Daily. Nepal. Retrieved from http://new.myrepublica.com/opinion/item/17601-system-of-abundance.html

Miya, A. (2015, April 22). s”nf; If ]qnfO{ ljZj ;Dkbfdf /fv\g cWoog. Kantipur. Nepal. Retrieved from http://www.ekantipur.com/np/2072/1/9/full-story/407728.html

Across Mahakali river : Transboundary collaborative programme (ICIMOD). (2015). Rivers Network. Retrieved from http://www.riversnetwork.org/rbo/index.php/river-blogs/central-asia/item/4691-across-mahakali-river-transboundary-collaborative-programme-icimod

Katwal, A. (n.d.). Sustainable management and Cordyceps trade. Business Bhutan.

Pokhrel, N. (n.d.-a). Regional policy to guide management of Cordyceps. Kuensel.

Pokhrel, N. (n.d.-b). Sustaining Cordyceps collection in the Himalayan range. Kunsel. Retrieved from http://www.kuenselonline.com/sustaining-cordycep-collection-in-the-himalayan-range/

Pradhan, N. (n.d.). Groundwater: It’s not a source, it’s a resource. India Water Portal.

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