Community Based Natural Resources Management

AQZ has collaborated with the Environmental Management Agency, Forestry Commission, Rural District Councils and other development partners in creating awareness on issues of sustainable natural resources management. It has facilitated formation and training of ward based Environmental Committees and Environmental Monitors to do natural resources comanagement. Along with Parks and Wildlife, AQZ has promoted sustainable fishing and fish resource management in communities surrounding dams. AQZ has also successfully promoted sustainable use and protection of wetlands. Carefully designed agriculture aquaculture interventions on wetlands have also raised community awareness of the need to protect and value natural resources such as wetlands which in turn would ensure continued supply of water necessary for agricultural production during lean and peak hunger periods.