IUCN Pakistan

Sindh Programme Office

The goal of the Sindh Programme is to provide “Good governance for the sustainable development of Sindh”. Under this general vision it incorporates and builds upon ongoing projects of IUCNP in Sindh, and also it undertakes a majority of new initiatives in collaboration with members and partners

To achieve this end, the Sindh Programme works within the following priority technical areas:

Coastal and Marine
Freshwater
Forestry
Biodiversity

Under the above priority technical areas, the programme concentrates on the following:

Ecosystem Management: For example Manchar Lake and/or Narro & Jabba
Water: Wetlands, coast, mangroves/riverine forests, drought management
Climate Change
Sustainable Agriculture and agro-biodiversity
Arid Land Management
Sustainable Use initiatives

In all of the above, gender is a crosscutting theme.

Main Areas of Work:

Constituency development
Advocacy, awareness raising and environmental education
Institutional strengthening and capacity building
Poverty and environment
Environmental economics
Environmental law
Information Management Systems
Greening the business/private sectors
Eco-tourism
Environmental Finance
Business and biodiversity
Biodiversity and trade
IT for development (would include information management and access with focus on how to apply IT in general to facilitate sustainable development and environment related work).

For more information: http://www.sindh.iucnp.org

Other projects: BP - ERNP - MACP - PEP - PSNP - SP - SPCS - WCD - SDNP