Vice Rectorate in Europe involved in the PALM Project
Agreement signed in September 2007
The Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains is an Integrated and Trans-boundary Initiative in Central Asia (PALM Project). The initiative’s goal is to enhance the capacity dealing with conservation and sustainable development of fragile and transboundary mountain environments. UNU-ViE was involved in the appraisal process and is responsible for execution of the four years project.
The Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains is an Integrated and Trans-boundary Initiative in Central Asia (PALM Project). The initiative’s goal is to enhance the capacity dealing with conservation and sustainable development of fragile and transboundary mountain environments. UNU-ViE was involved in the appraisal process and is responsible for execution of the four years project.
The project aims to address the interlinked problems of poverty and land degradation in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains. The mountains are one of Central Asia’s critical water towers and biodiversity hotspots in a transboundary and integrated framework. It is foreseen to undertake participatory research, targeted capacity building, micro grants and best practice demonstration measures to improve the technological, institutional, policy and legislative environment. These requirements are necessary to enable mountain communities to take primary responsibility for the productive and sustainable management of their local ecosystem resources. Additionally, the initiative plans to employ replicable generic guidelines that can be used to address the problems of land degradation in similar mountain environments in Central Asia and elsewhere.
The agreement between UNU, the executing agency, and UNEP, the implementing agency, has been signed in September 2007. The project’s 15 co-financing and 3 associated partners have, for the period of the next four years, funds of US$ 3 million available, which have been approved by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The agreement between UNU, the executing agency, and UNEP, the implementing agency, has been signed in September 2007. The project’s 15 co-financing and 3 associated partners have, for the period of the next four years, funds of US$ 3 million available, which have been approved by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).