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Empowering Communities to Manage Natural Resources in the Mekong Central Section, Cambodia

Grantee Name: Cambodian Community Development

Hotspot
Indo-Burma
Location
Cambodia
Amount
$74,753
Dates
May 2016 – May 2019
Keywords
Access and Benefit Sharing, Community-based conservation, Fisheries, Forestry, Freshwater, Indigenous People, Land tenure

Empower communities living along the central section of the Mekong River to gain legal recognition over their rights to natural resources and manage them in a sustainable manner. Facilitate the designation of one community forest, five community fisheries and two communal land titles. Engage indigenous communities in conservation and rehabilitation of natural resources, forests and wildlife.

Strategic Direction :

4 Empower local communities to engage in conservation and management of priority key biodiversity areas

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