Reviving Indigenous & Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) in the Customary Territory of Abolhassani Nomadic Tribe — Coping with the Effects of Climate Change and Drought through Local Initiatives and Ecological Management
Date:
February 2010بهمن 1388
– December 2011آذر 1390
Location: Khartouran region, Central desert (Kavir) of Iran, Semnan, Province
Overall objective: Achievement to Community Conserved Areas through Reviving Indigenous knowledge and expansion of Local Initiatives for drought mitigation
Specific objectives:
- Participatory action research of climate change effects particularly recent severe drought in mobile pastoralist’s territories;
- Assessment and analysis of applied initiatives and indigenous knowledge and success stories in coping with the drought
- Expansion of local initiatives in other parts of the Abolhassani tribal confederacy via small credits and small grants and Documentation of lessons learnt and good practices
Results:
- Abolhassani Nomads Tribe territory Management (ICCA)
- Dealing with climate change effects and defining a life cycle for agriculture and pasture management
- Livelihood activities and establishing a revolving fund
- Increasing the number of tribe people benefiting from the agriculture/pasture life cycle
- Rehabilitation of the Qanat
- Developing an English Newsletter with every payment
- Performing an study on the Sangsari Tribe and publish the documentation
- Developing short clips for documentation