GEF/SGP Iran Asiatic Cheetah Cluster

Photo: A.Khaleghi Hamidi

List of GEF SGP Cheetah Projects

Touran Bisophere Reserve, Semnan Province

NaybandanWildlife Refuge and Tabas City, Yazd Province

Bagq Protected Area, Yazd Province

Grantee: Eco Researchers SocietyObjective:Awareness Raising all around Touran BR in threevillages (Khankhodi, AhmadAbad, ZamanAbad).

IRA/05/10 (58th)

Target Group:Environmental Game guards, local students,extended to local women

Achievements:• Workshop and meeting with local people

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Khartouran Biosphere Community Empowerment and Awareness Raising for Conservation of Asiatic CheetahMarch 2006, Finish date: Jun 2010

IRA/05/10 (58th)• Tours in National park for students• Publications; booklets, calendar, map, CD• Establishment of Micro Credit Trust (MCT)• Touran festival• Cheetah sport matches for students• Three local Community Based Organizations

(CBO) were formed that are still working( ) g• Three MCTs were formed• Change in local communities behavior

towards poaching• stakeholder engagement (local Gov.

authorities, private sector• Capacity development among the grantees

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Touran Asiatic Cheetah Local Participation and Livelihood ProjectDecember 2008, Finish date: Jun 2010

IRA/SGP/OP4/RAF/07/05 (96)

experts• Biodiversity products (wall carpet, Gourd

Carving)• Publications: calendar, Touran’s nature cover,

experiences from local community, lessonslearned, training manual, guide to gamewardens, Touran multi media and newsletters.,

Additional Outcomes:Giving books to the local librariesEstablishment of local teams led to anotherfollow‐up project

Grantee: Plan for the Land Societyf yObjective:Introducing eco‐tourism as a tool toempowerment of the local community andgenerating new income for households thatwould lad to better conservation of Touran

Target GroupTarget Group:Qale‐bala villagers, including women, younggeneration

Achievements:• Workshop and meeting with local people• Eco‐Tours in National parkp• giving value to local assets (e.g. handicrafts,

traditions, Touran National park and it’s richbiodiversity)

• Reintroduction of local handicraft making(e.g. traditional weaving (Taneh))

• Training of professional Local eco‐tourleaders (40 participants from Qale bala

Developing a Pilot on the role of communities in the Preservation of Environment with Reliance on Eco‐

IRA/06/09 (76th)

leaders (40 participants from Qale‐bala,Khankhodi (local team members of SGPproject IRA‐58th))

• Establishment of Micro Credit Trust (MCT)• Change in local communities behavior

towards conservation of Touran.• Publications; Management framework, code

tourism  on the border of Touran National Park

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• Stakeholder engagement (local Gov.authorities, private sector)

Additional outcomes:Giving books to the village libraryE li h l i l h ld b l t fEnglish learning class held by a volunteer forprimary studentsMarketing and selling the biodiversity products inTehran through a “livelihood trust” in Tehran.Poster presentation of the project in the FirstMiddle East Biodiversity Congress (Aman, Jordan)

IRA/SGP/OP4/RAF/07/02 (93) 

Grantee: Mohitban Society (first phase)Kanoone Hamandishane Sabz Gostar Tabas (localCBO) (second phase)

Objective:Awareness raising and educating the local

Empowerment of  the Local Community in NaybandanWildlife Refuge and Tabas City in collaboration with GEF CACP (Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah Project) 

g gcommunity and extended to capacity building.

Target Group:Local community and Students (Fahalonj,Nayband, ZardKouh, Pikouh villages and Tabascity). Camel owners and drivers, miners(managers and workers) and Truck drivers of the

Asiatic Cheetah Fund for Local CBOs formed in Naybandan Villages in Tabas

IRA/SGP/OP4/RAF/08/16A (107A) 

(managers and workers) and Truck drivers of theregion and women.

Achievements:• Workshop and meeting with local people .• Publications; newsletter, books (introducing

Naybandan, Asiatic cheetah), notebooks,y , ), ,education materials

• handicrafts (basket, Gourd Carving)• establishment of five local CBOs.• Cheetah signs on high risk areas of the roads

of the province.• Positive change in the attitude of

t l i ti f th igovernmental organizations of the provincetowards NGO and CBOs.

• stakeholder engagement (local Gov.authorities, private sector)

Additional outcomes:Establishment of a volunteer CBO after theproject.Extension of the project to second fund alocatedto CBOs formed in Naybandan Villages in Tabas

IRA/05/11 (59th)

Grantee: Iranian Cheetah Society

Objective:Awareness raising and educating the localcommunity

Bafq Community Empowerment and Awareness Raising for Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah 

Target Group:Local community and Students of Bafq.

Achievements:• Workshop and meeting with local people• Meeting and classes for students

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Phase 2 of SGP Project “Bafq Community Empowerment and Awareness Raising for conservation of Asiatic Cheetah”

IRA/SGP/OP4/RAF/08/15 (106) 

• field trips for students• Publications; newsletter, books, education

materials• festivals (Cheetah Day)• Positive change in the attitude of

governmental organizations of the provincetowards NGO and CBOstowards NGO and CBOs.

• positive change in behavior of the localcommunity.

• Support of local political, religious andindustrial authorities of cheetah conservationin Bafq

• stakeholder engagement (local Gov.)authorities, private sector)

• increase in cheetah sighting reports by localcommunity to the local DoE.

• Mass Media Coverage

Additional Outcomes:local authorities planned to establish a Cheetahlocal authorities planned to establish a CheetahSquare.Reprinting cheetah brochures and Spreadingthem among tourists during Norouzas avolunteer action by local team members.