Nature Conservation National Strategic Framework for Sustainable Development (2015-2030).

The Nature Conservation National Strategic Framework for Sustainable Development (2015-2030) aims to make development sustainable and environmentally sensitive by integrating nature conservation into all development efforts. Nature conservation and sustainable development shall be complementary to each other. "Nature conservation" in the Framework is defined as the judicious utilisation of natural resources, achieved by remaining within its renewable capacity in a sustainable manner. It ensures use of the available natural resources in a manner that can fulfil human development needs of present and future generations.
This National Strategic Framework has made the following five strategic pillars its base based on lessons learned from the implementation of the National Conservation Strategy (1988), major achievements attained in conservation and current issues, analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of conservation, areas to be paid special attention during Framework formulation, and a reasonable balance to be maintained in development and conservation. The Framework and the five strategic pillars are under Chapter 4, they follow: 1) Mainstreaming Nature Conservation into Development Efforts; this means nature conservation related concerns should be incorporated in development plans, programmes and activities. In this case, mainstreaming is based on generally accepted prevailing ideas, principles and norms and values. 2) Harmonisation between Sectoral Strategies; Harmonisation refers to bringing about uniformity in the policy, law, strategy, programme, process, method, definition, measurement, description and characteristics of different sectors by addressing dissimilarities, and understanding the situation in these areas. 3) Coordination between Agencies concerned; It is necessary to achieve working collaboration, maintain mutual relationships and bring about harmony between agencies and organizations working in the development and conservation sectors. 4) Valuing and Accounting Ecosystem Goods and Services; there are four broad categories of benefits from an ecosystem. These benefits include supporting services such as nutrient recycling and soil formation processes; provisioning services like production of food grain, cloth, energy, and clean water; regulating services such as preservation of air quality; regulation of water, climate, diseases and crop pollination; and cultural services like recreational, religious, spiritual, educational, and natural aesthetics. 5) Accountability of sectoral agencies in conservation result.
Chapter 5 contains the Framework Implementation Arrangements. This Framework shall be implemented by adapting the following processes: a) The type of nature sensitivity to be adopted by development strategies as specified by this Framework shall be covered in periodic plans or during review of these plans. In addition, nature-sensitivity shall be reviewed while developing new sectoral development strategies or reviewing/revising sectoral development strategies. b) This Framework shall be implemented through periodic plans. For this, guidelines shall be provided in an approach paper to be prepared for the formulation of periodic plans, and, to ensure the incorporation of nature conservation in sectoral development programmes introduced through concerned agencies, such programmes shall be assessed based on nature-sensitivity. c) Periodic plans shall be implemented through annual plans. To this end, guidelines shall also be provided for the integration of nature conservation in development, as this should be addressed in the annual plans. The document also arranges an organizational structure for implementation and identifies responsibilities of each single authority: Implementation Coordination Council, Implementation Coordination Committee, 3 Local-level Coordination Committee, Framework Implementation Support Unit, a Liaison Unit and a Focal Person at Sectoral Ministry.
Chapter 6 is monitoring an evaluation. This Framework includes three major areas of monitoring and evaluation: a) Conservation-related results; b) Status of the adoption of assumptions envisioned in achieving the results of nature conservation; c) Reduction of foreseen risks in achieving the results of nature conservation.