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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Environmental Protection Society
Darbar
Saidu Sharif
Swat
Pakistan
Email: info@eps-swat.org
Website: www.eps-swat.org
Type: NGO
Scope: national
Interest in Forestry: peripheral
Description
EPS addresses issues of poverty and environmental degradation in Malakand Division through Research,
Advocacy, Awareness Raising, Social Mobilization, Human and Institutional Development
and Service Delivery by adopting a conflict-free and culturally viable approach with a blend of professionalism
and voluntary zeal.
Values
Democratic, Self-reliance, Honesty, Integrity, Social Acceptability, and Participatory Approach.
Philosophy
Collective Broad Based Sustainable Development.
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
The Society perceives the natural resource holistically and strives for its management with a fine mix
of modern and traditional ways. Of the many other areas under this program like commercial
marketing of agricultural products, orchards, pastures, wildlife, EPS has also worked on the following.
River Swat Conservation Project [RSCP]
River Swat Conservation Project was a Social Organization and Action Project in collaboration with the
United Nation Development Programme [UNDP]. The Project team selected villages along
River Swat for pilot activities. They completed the baseline surveys for social organization and management
of solid and liquid waste to reduce pollution in River Swat. Motivational material and a
documentary film on River Swat had been prepared. The work findings, experience, achievements of the
RSCP are published by the Society in 2003 under the title The River Swat. RSCP also
worked on the planning and zoning of Kalam region.
Forest
Forest activities: EPS highlights the issues related to forest through press, seminars and workshops
on the one hand and lobbing on the stakeholder level for a Forest Policy, so that to ensure forest
conservation on sustainable basis. EPS has documented all basic information about the forests of Swat
and is a member of the Forestry Roundtable NWFP. The names of the reports are included in
this Expression of Interest.
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