PIMS 6563 Community-based management of Tanguar Haor Wetland in Bangladesh

About this project

The project objective is to promote sustainable use of wetland resources by local communities to conserve globally significant biodiversity, improve ecosystem services and secure local livelihoods in Tanguar Haor. It is aimed at addressing the increased degradation of wetland habitat from unsustainable development and local community practices that is leading to biodiversity and ecosystem losses and as a consequence depletion of the productivity of the wetland. This is attributed to habitat degradation and fragmentation caused by expanding human settlement and agriculture, changes in hydrological regime caused by changes in land use patterns, pollution from discharge of effluents, dumping of waste, agro-chemicals and erosion of soil, over-exploitation and other unsustainable uses of natural resources, unplanned tourism, invasive alien species, particularly the introduction of exotic species of fishes and climate change impacts. The project is thus aimed at addressing these multiple threats by harmonizing socio-economic development, sustainable management of land and water resources and biodiversity conservation through an integrated ecosystem-based management approach in the wetland. To achieve this, actions will be taken to strengthen capacity and coordinated planning at the national and sub-national levels on socio-economic development as well as demonstrate sustainable fisheries, agriculture and natural resources management, biodiversity conservation and restoration, and…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 13Climate Action
• 14Life Below Water
• 15Life on Land

Published by

United Nations Development Programme · Multilateral

Countries

Bangladesh

Sectors

Biodiversity

Funded by

Global Environment Fund Truste

Implemented by

BGD-Department of Environment

Accountable

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Published by United Nations Development Programme to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-41114-PROJECT-01004126.

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