National Conservation Strategy

National Conservation Strategy (NCS)

Group Members: Saira Sharif

Summayia Altaf

Qurat-ul-Ain

Syeda Somia

Masrooha Tariq

Sultana Jamil

Contents

• Introduction/History

• Objectives

• Overarching Principles

• NCS Donors

• NCS Implementation Committee

• Review of NCS

• Recommendations

• Priority Areas

National Conservation Strategy (NCS) early nineties

a multi stakeholders and comprehensive consultative

process

prepared by a team of experts over a three-

year period

approved by the Federal Cabinet of Pakistan on 1 March 1992

Objectives

Conservation of

Natural Resources Sustainable

Development

Improved Efficiency in the use and

Management of Resources

• Achieving greater Public Partnership in Development and Environmental Management

• Merging Environment and Economics in decision-making

• Focusing on Durable Improvements in the quality of life in Pakistan

World Bank

CIDAEU

Chairman(Planning Commission)

Ministry of Housing and Works,

Environment & Urban Affairs Division

Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Co-

operatives

Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources

Secretary

Ministry of Water and Power

Ministry of Industries

NCS Implementation Committee

In late 2000 byExpert teams(local & foreign)

• NCS needs refocusing and closer link to achievabledevelopment outcomes; this should constitute the agendaof the next phase of NCS, (NCS-2)

• Prepare NCS- 2 to serve as Pakistan’s sustainabledevelopment strategy for 2002-2012, with a grateremphasis on poverty reduction and economicdevelopment in addition to environmental sustainability.

• Expand the range and scale of financial mechanisms formeeting NCS objectives

• Agriculture

• Policies: Prevent overuse, degradation, erosion and improve fertility of soil

Measure: Develop soil and water conservation plans, protect high-risk erosion areas, use and adopt water conservation solutions & compatible cropping systems

• Policies: Use forest resources sustainable and Preserve and manage on a representative basis some old forests to maintain the bank of biodiversity.

• Measure:· Strengthen the forest departments and Promote the private sector to take the lead role in irrigated plantations and farm forestry

RANGELAND REHABILITATION

• Polices: System should repair rangelands and to

ensure sustainable income to range land inhabitants

on interval basis

• Measures: Issue rangeland management licenses and

Improve services of department & multi sectors but

programmers should be cost effective.

• provide technical & relevant advices

Policies

• priorities to increase irrigation effectiveness.

• Promote biological approach & engineering

solutions to solve problems of salinity

sodality & water logging

Measures:

• For salinity & water logging solutions

research should be done with addition of

biological solutions

Water management

Policies

• Protect and restore fishing habitats, with harvesting

restricted to the level of annual sustainable yields.

Measures

• Harvest fisheries on a sustainable yield basis

FISHERIES

WILDLIFE AND HABITAT

Policies

•Increase the numbers of national

parks and game reserves.

Measures

•Introduce incentives to safeguard

conservation areas and divert

pressures from threatened wildlife

habitats and species

ENERGY

Policies

• Expand the use of coal to meet short-term, electricity

demand requirements, based on the least polluting

technology and current emission standards.

Measures

•Assign clear roles for the public and private sectors in

supplying energy

POLLUTION CONTROL

Policies

• Adopt domestic wastewater treatment

technologies that provide for

recovery and reuse of water,

nutrients, and organic matter

Measure

• Encourage source reduction, through

recovery by industrial units of heavy

metals before discharge