Partnership for Natural Ecosystem Management Program (PAGEN)

( Details of previous reviews and actions may be found on the appropriate black book file from 1998 ). The Program’s 15-year purpose is "to set up a national decentralized system for participatory management of natural ecosystems profitable for communities, private operators and the state". It is a building block to a national Decentralized Rural Development Program (DRDP) financed by IDA and other donors. Phase 1 development objective is "to establish and test in four geographical locations a decentralized system of participatory management of natural ecosystems". The Program targets global biodiversity conservation in 4 areas of Burkina Faso by: (i) increasing the ecological security of flora and fauna rare or threatened on a regional and global scale including the northernmost populations of African elephants; (ii) restoration and preservation of representative areas of the West Africa Sahelian and Sudanian ecosystems; (iii) preservation of genetic diversity within ecologically, economically and culturally important species in natural population within their historical range; and (iv) integration of sound ecological management principles of natural resources, livestock and agriculture practices in relation to wildland conservation. The Program’s operationnal goals are to: (1) plan and implement PRONAGEN at the ecosystem and transboundary levels; (2) empower communities for the management of wildland as part of decentralized rural development, (3) reinforce local and national capacity; (4) provide funds, tools and techniques for communities, Government & private operators to manage natural habitat and wildlife .