The IUCN Programme in Pakistan is characterised by a mix of policy and fieldwork at all levels: federal, provincial and local. At each level, it has sought to bring government, civil society and private sector institutions together. Currently, the Programme is made up of the work around several themes, various conservation strategies and select field projects.

The themes deal with issues of business and the environment, biodiversity, communications, coastal ecosystems, environmental assessment, environmental education, environmental law, environmental NGOs and strategies support.

As part of the NCS implementation, IUCN Pakistan supports various sub-national conservation strategies that are in the process of either being developed or implemented. These include the Sarhad Provincial Conservation Strategy, Balochistan Conservation Strategy, Northern Areas Conservation Strategy, Chitral Conservation Strategy and Abbottabad Conservation Strategy.

The strategies themselves are essentially capacity-building initiatives complemented by other capacity-building and demonstration project implemented by IUCN. Notable among these are Capitalising on Capacities (extension of Pakistan Environment Programme - PEP), Environmental Rehabilitation in the NWFP and the Punjab (ERNP), Mountain Areas Conservancy Project (MACP), and Mangrove Forest Rehabilitation.

Detailed description of various elements of the Programmes are

• Country Representative Office
• Corporate Services
• Programme Coordination
• Education, Communication and Knowledge Management Group
• Policy & Constituency Development
• Society, Economy & Environment Group
• Ecosystems Management Group

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The IUCN Programme is described in the document "Stepping into the New Millennium" - PDF Document - 451KB The Union's innovative and comprehensive conservation programme "Stepping into the New Millennium" will be implemented over a four-year period (2001-2004) in 180 countries. It was developed through a consultative planning process and then approved at the World Conservation Congress in Amman, Jordan (October 2002).