{"id":1147,"date":"2023-07-13T12:29:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatervirunga.org\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2023-07-13T12:29:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:29:25","slug":"targeted-scenario-analysis-an-approach-believed-to-allow-to-change-from-business-as-usual-to-sustainable-ecosystem-management-for-sustainable-development-in-the-greater-virunga-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatervirunga.org\/targeted-scenario-analysis-an-approach-believed-to-allow-to-change-from-business-as-usual-to-sustainable-ecosystem-management-for-sustainable-development-in-the-greater-virunga-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Targeted Scenario Analysis, an approach believed to allow to change from Business As Usual to Sustainable Ecosystem Management for sustainable development in the Greater Virunga Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
Shift to nature-based tourism\/climate-smart agriculture reduces dependency on natural resources. Water tanks reduce impacts of lack of water resources and positively affect small-scale farmers. Effective buffer zone management reduces human-wildlife conflict with the addition of tea farming as an alternative source of income, preserving species populations and as a result increasing tourism in the region. Local livelihoods increase and food insecurity decreases, positively impacting revenue for communities and general wellbeing.<\/p>\n
The Vanishing Treasures Programme to which Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration is amongst the key stakeholders, \u00a0aims to enhance the resilience to climate change of vulnerable Virunga Mountains species, such as the iconic Mountain Gorilla while supporting local mountain communities who live alongside them. The Vanishing Treasures has set the following objectives:<\/p>\n
Achieving the above-listed objectives include critical policy-related challenges. Therefore, it is indispensable for local leaders and decision-makers to understand the economics supporting policy reform to shift from unsustainable agricultural and livestock practices to more sustainable ecosystems and biodiversity-friendly livelihoods such as climate-smart agriculture, nature-based tourism, and other non-timber extracting activities. Thus, the Vanishing Treasures Programme will apply UNDP’s Targeted Scenario Analysis approach to respond to the growing demand from decision-makers and stakeholders for effective policy-relevant economic analysis tools to advance productive sectors’ policy reform and, therefore, the national Sustainable Development Goals. UNDP’s Targeted Scenario Analysis (TSA) offers a practical approach to connecting policy objectives with fit-for-purpose economic analysis. Targeted Scenario Analysis enables the conversion of economic data into sustainable sector development policy.<\/p>\n
It is in this respect that the workshop was organized in Nkuringo from 12th<\/sup> to 14th<\/sup> July 2023,\u00a0 to allow the participants who mainly are the beneficiaries of the Vanishing Treasures Programme, to consider its achievements, use the data to craft the policy which shall be discussed in order to make a national policy which can be replicated and used elsewhere.<\/p>\n