The project aims to promote environmental awareness and protected area concepts and biodiversity protection among park personnel and community leaders. Specifically, the project will:
1. Demonstrate, through training workshops and related field activities, potentially successful approaches to conserving biological diversity and reducing greenhouse emissions which contribute to global warming.
2. Demonstrate successful, or potentially successful, strategies for mobilizing communities and peoples to conserve their environment.
3. develop priorities and strategies for addressing relevant environmental problems,
4. Provide training at the national level for relevant NGOs and community groups.
5. Support exchanges of experience among NGOs and community groups through exchange of persons, networking and/or communications activities.
6. Increase and where necessary, promote awareness of conservation and protected area concepts and objectives amongst protected area personnel and key community leaders.
7. Train protected area personnel in the basic elements of five protected area management subject areas.