The project aims to improve livelihood status of the youth along with biodiversity conservation through initiating forest, agriculture and skill based enterprise options that are appropriate to local resource base, traditional skills and climatic variation. In this regard, project itself brings positive changes in various aspects through improving and maintaining existing ecosystem instead inducing negative environmental and social consequences. Most of the designed activities promote efficiency in sustainable natural resource utilization through improving economic conditions of youth involved in biodiversity conservation. Thus, it would be beneficial for resource management, fighting against appropriation and develop social harmony due to the course taken by the project to achieve desired outputs. 

Fri-PAD Intervention

The project has been properly initiated from a series of meetings, interaction and orientation with concerned stakeholders and the target user committees in different locations of Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts. The concerned user committees were individually met and select the trained and interested youths for the proposed training package of project namely “Entrepreneurship development of forest dependent youth for biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement”. During the tenure of project implementation for the entire 9 months duration, total of 60 youths were trained on SIYB and also linked them with local financial institutions for micro-credit proceeding in their corresponding area. During the project period 53 (88%) trainees were also enabled to register their micro-enterprises in various government authorities like municipalities, district cottage and small industries of concerned district. Finally, some of the basic goods, equipments and materials including record keeping ledgers were also supported to those who registered their business. 
The development goal of the project is to promote entrepreneurship skills among youth involved as anti-poaching unit and citizen scientists to improve their livelihoods and ensure sustainable biodiversity conservation through skill based enterprise among rural youths. As skill development training for youth has already been given through Hariyo Ban Program, sothis project also aims to enhance entrepreneurship skills of those trained youths having skill in plumbing, electrical wiring, tailoring, embroidering, livestock keeping, vegetable farming, cooking and so on.