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2.4 Does the site safeguards the threatened biodiversity values?
Assessment criteria
Condition Category* (Tick ü) Remarks
Sites does not safeguard the threatened
Ground work to safeguard the biodiversity values
Poor
biodiversity values.
of all the 3 PAs has been done except securing
Sites safeguards a few threatened
the management of the portion of NP falling in
Fair
biodiversity values.
Parvati Valley. The enforcement part needs to be
Sites safeguards a large number of
strengthened further.
Good ü
threatened biodiversity values.
Sites safeguards all threatened
Very good
biodiversity values.
2.5 Are stakeholders given an opportunity to participate in planning?
Assessment criteria
Condition Category* (Tick ü) Remarks
Little, if any opportunity for stakeholder
Stakeholder participation in planning process
Poor
participation in planning.
started in the COB project (1994-99). In the main
Stakeholders participate in some planning. Fair
ecodevelopment component of the project an
Stakeholders participate in most planning
area of 5 km. from the Western periphery of
Good
processes.
GHNP was notified as Eco-zone with an area of
Stakeholders routinely and systematically Very good ü 326.6 km 2 including 61 km 2 of Tirthan WLS. The
participate in all planning processes.
zone comprised of 160 villages with 2200
households and 14000 human population. After
the final notification of GHNP was issued in 1999
the participatory management process began
and in 2000 a community based organization
SAHARA (Society for Advancement of Hill and
Rural Areas) was formed. Women Savings and
Credit Groups (WSCGS) covering all forest
dependent households were formed and
financially strengthened with the help of the wage
earnings from various habitat development
activities of the PAs and by securing funds from
Got. of India for two major medicinal plant
propagation projects. The WSCGS has good
sums of revolving funds with them. The aim is to
make the GHNP management as 'facilitator' of
community based organization involving user
Groups, local NGOs, Mahila Mandals, Yuvak
Mandals, Ward Development Committees and
panchayats. GHNP management selected 12
women from ecozone and trained them as Group
Organizers to work in the villages. They have
been given training in appropriate trades/
subjects. They are now identifying the poor
households and organizing them into small
Women Saving and Credit Groups (WSCGS). 92
WSCGs have been formed covering about 980
women of poor HHs. Their collective savings in
local banks till 2004 was 8 lakh Rupees out of
which they have done alternative income
generation activities and earned more than Rs.
32 lakhs.
*Score: Poor: 2.5; Fair: 5; Good: 7.5; Very Good: 10
Great Himalayan National Park (HP)
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