Honeybees in the Himalayas - Promoting Partnerships with Rural Development Organizations in the Region



Contract partner: ICIMOD - International Center for Integrated Mountain Development Country: Südasien, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 517.000,00 Project start: 01.06.2005 End: 30.09.2007

Short Description:

Overall goal


The project is a continuation of a programme funded by the Austrian Development Co-operation since 1993. With the current phase the project moves from research to applying the research for poverty reduction and environmental conservation.


The overall objective of the proposed project is "to improve the livelihoods of rural mountain people and conserve biodiversity". The main purpose of the project is "to strengthen partnerships with rural development organizations, technical institutions and international agencies in promoting sustainable management of honeybees to contribute to income of mountain women & men". A total of nine major areas were identified during the planning process including partnership development, capacity building, awareness raising, networking, Apis cerana selection and management, pollination and eco-services of wild honeybees, marketing and enterprise development and gender mainstreaming.


This innovative module of development envisages organizing a partnership of CBOs, country focal technical institutions, rural development organizations and ICIMOD. The proposed module will also crosscut through and will benefit from international actors and players of development in the field of honeybees. The project will be hosted in the ICIMOD's action initiative "High Value Products and Sustainable Agriculture" under the ARID program. It will be implemented in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The project has a very strong component of gender mainstreaming, which will benefit directly and indirectly in achieving the equitable empowerment of women and men.

project number 1469-00/2005
source of funding OEZA
sector Landwirtschaft
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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