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Rural development program
Al-Shouf Cedar Society has undertaken the Rural
Development Project since February 1999, aiming to
conserve and develop raw materials and hand made
provision.
The project had since then contributed in granting
aid to 40 families by producing more than 70
products that are promoted on the main entrances of
the Reserve which receive yearly more than 20000
visitors from different nationalities.
Al-Shouf Cedar Reserve show visitors the patrimony
and traditions of the local community through its
food products such as marmalade, herbs, jams,
beverage, distilled waters and craftworks.
The program is developing by establishing three
ateliers for women and beekeepers in Mrusti,
Baadaran and Jbaa villages, equipped by the
necessary materials to produce the rural products.
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Capacity building program
Since the beginning of the protected areas (PAs) project-
Lebanon in 1997, there was a need for the capacity building
of Nature Reserves’ teams, as a ACR’s management team we
started our training through the PAs project by cooperation
with the IUCN that was the technical support in addition to
the participation in many national, regional and
international workshops and training courses that organized
by professional institutions, universities, NGOs in
different Arab countries, Europe and USA. After that,
during the year 2000 and when our programs began to develop
especially that related with our different local
stakeholders (Municipalities, Herders, Beekeepers, Women,
Schools, Volunteers, and etc) we found the necessity to
establish our own capacity building program.
Through this program we organized by cooperation with
different local and regional partners, many training
courses about the basic concept of protected area
management, nature conservation and protection,
biodiversity monitoring and identification especially
(plants classification and identification), environmental
education and interpretation, eco-tourism guiding and
visitor management, income generation, grazing management
(nutrition and diseases control for the goats), rural
development (production, packaging, promotion of the
traditional food products) and sustainable use of medicinal,
edible and aromatic plants, forest fire fighting, etc. |
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