| Strategic Directions |
Investment Priorities |
| 1. Build on existing landscape conservation initiatives to maintain and restore connectivity and to protect wide-ranging threatened species in priority corridors with a particular emphasis on the Bhutan Biological Conservation Complex, Kangchenjunga-Singalila Complex, and North Bank Landscape |
1.1 Identify important habitat linkages between site outcomes in the priority corridors. |
| 1.2 Engage civil society in developing and implementing management plans for key habitat linkages. |
| 1.3 Support targeted conservation education and awareness programs among communities, schools, journalists and decisionmakers in priority corridors. |
| 1.4 Promote forest management practices that benefit biodiversity conservation in the priority corridors. |
| 2. Secure the conservation of priority site outcomes (key biodiversity areas) in the eastern Himalayas with a particular emphasis on the Bhutan Biological Conservation Complex, Kangchenjunga-Singalila Complex, and North Bank Landscape |
2.1 Support targeted efforts to manage, protect and monitor site outcomes (key biodiversity areas). |
| 2.2 Provide incremental support to effective, ongoing alternative livelihood projects with local communities that ease threats to and enhance conservation of priority sites. |
| 2.3 Support traditional land- and resource-use practices in projects that will ensure effective conservation of priority sites. |
| 3. Leverage partnerships among donor agencies, civil society, and government institutions to achieve priority biodiversity conservation outcomes over the long term. |
3.1 Strengthen and support government and civil society partnerships that result in new funding for achieving conservation outcomes in the eastern Himalayas. |
| 3.2 Support training programs to protect, manage and monitor species, sites and corridor outcomes. |
| 3.3 Develop and strengthen capacity among grassroots civil society organizations to manage, monitor, and mitigate threats to biodiversity. |
| 3.4 Support transboundary initiatives for conservation of wide-ranging species that require collaboration across international borders. |
| 4. Develop a small grants program to safeguard globally threatened species in the eastern Himalayas |
4.1 Support targeted, high-impact projects to conserve Critically Endangered and endemic species. |
| 4.2 Support action-oriented research to enable or improve the conservation of priority species outcomes. |
| 4.3 Implement a monitoring program for priority species outcomes. |
| 4.4 Support conservation assessments of lesser-known taxonomic groups (plants, invertebrates, fish) for inclusion into the IUCN Red List. |