6. “How has the initiative contributed to sustainable natural resource management and environmental conservation? Describe how these conservation efforts are linked to improved community livelihoods and wellbeing.”
If your initiative is focused upon environmental conservation, you can easily answer this question but you still need to link it with the improvement levels amongst the community living within this environment. If your intervention has reduced soil erosion, it is likely to benefit the farmers of the community.
Sri Lanka’s Community Development Centre implementing one of the most successful community-based projects in the country – and also winning the 2008 Equator Prize – has been involved in preserving, conserving and expanding the cultivation of indigenous root and tuber crops and generate livelihoods. It has linked biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement of its communities in the following manner in its nomination form:
