This project through participatory action for adaptive management of natural resources and ecosystem processes for sustainable development will overcome the organizational, technical, and financial management weaknesses of the local communities living and working in the target CRBR rural
landscapes so that they can act strategically and collectively in building social and
ecological resilience. It will be focusing on a strategy that is inclusive with inputs from all
stakeholders and taking a bottom-up approach through the building of local communities?
capacity to plan and implement activities based on their own self-determination and
initiative. The project overall objective is to develop a Landscape Strategy for Crocker
Range Biosphere Reserve (CBBR), Sabah so that community organizations within the
landscape can take collective action for adaptive landscape management in building socioecological
resilience for global environmental benefits and sustainable development.