Forest
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Our Achievements

Achievements

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    Grant Making

     

    • 167 grants
    • worth USD 5.99 million
    • 71 NGOs/institutions
    • 558 community-based organizations (CBOs).

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    Collaborative NRM

     

    • 25,000 ha of degraded PA’s brought under improved management jointly with Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD)
    • 9 CMOs with BFD
    • Protected areas, ECAs, and Wetlands
    • Ongoing efforts for countrywide Co-management network

     

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    Forest Restoration

     

    • 1,988 ha of degraded forests in CHT
    • 168 ha degraded swamp forests 
    • 6.5 Km of strip-plantation in erosion vulnerable Haor areas
    • Ongoing efforts for Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) at Bandarban, CHT.

      

     

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    Biodiversity Survey

     

    • 6 Protected Areas  
    • 8 Village Common Forests

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    VCF conservation

     

    • 14 degraded VCF  restored through community involvement

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    Energy Solutions

     

    • 10,600 Improved cook-stoves (ICS) distributed
    • 450 community beneficiaries received LPGs & heat retaining crockeries 
    • 3 biogas plant demonstrated 
    • 50,000 fuel wood saplings distributed 

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    Promotion of Alternative Livelihoods

     

    • Uplifted ~ 30,000 extreme poor forest dependent households
    • 558 CBOs supported under 25 projects
    • BDT 24.3 million as Revolving Loan Fund 
    • BDT 14.8 million saved by CBOs. 

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    Gender Equality

     

    • 60% of the project beneficiaries of Arannayk’s projects are women.
    • Women constitute 48% of the total executive committee members of the CBOs organized by the Arannayk projects.

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    1,000,000

     

    • Over a million native trees (50 threatened species) have been planted by more than 19,000 households in their homesteads through more than 20 AF funded projects.

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    Threatened Plant Conservation

     

    • Ex-situ conservation of 67 threatened native tree species established at Chittagong University Campus

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    Tool development

     

    • Forest resource collection inventory tool developed to monitor illegal extraction of forest resources.
    • A socio-economic survey tool developed for the Bangladesh Forest Inventory 

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    Climate Smart Agriculture

     

    • Identified, introduced and promoted Climate resilient/smart agriculture approaches
    • Improved farming practices
    • Climate resilient non-agricultural livelihoods

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    Knowledge Management

     

    • Published 21 books on floral and faunal biodiversity and conservation issues of Bangladesh
    • Training/capacity building modules and SBCC Tools

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