[{"bbox": [82, 147, 1140, 529], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Affairs, an relevant focal points in the rest of institutions will be promoted.</td></tr><tr><td>4.</td><td>Systems: engagement of private sector</td><td>Private sector partners reluctant to engage or are not attracted to initiatives.</td><td>Low</td><td>Medium</td><td>Engage existing committed and enthusiastic organisations (eg Biodiversity Sri Lanka, RPCs, individuals) to show positive examples of cooperation and recruit new investors. Attention by the project's activities that better management of natural resources benefit local economic development.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [148, 531, 308, 556], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [148, 578, 1131, 711], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Political commitment, demonstrated not only by formulation of policies but by allocations of respective budget, is paramount and political changes can affect commitment to biodiversity conservation, sound natural resource management and waste management. Working closely with local authorities to capacitate them and demonstrating that both biodiversity and waste management can help revenue generation in a scenario that resources are very limited, can aid in will to get their buy-in."}, {"bbox": [148, 712, 1131, 925], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The EU funded Tourism Resilience Project developed an innovative nature-based tourism product, the “Pekoe Trail”, a 300 km trekking trail in the central highlands which traverses tea plantations, Forest Department lands, and protected areas. The project ends mid-2024 and trail management will be taken over by a Destination Management Organisation established by several RPCs interested in furthering biodiversity conservation and nature-based tourism in the region. The lessons of this project are in the effectiveness of engagement with the private sector that meet EU’s objectives of a green economic recovery promoting rural development and poverty alleviation of vulnerable communities notwithstanding the complexities and commitment needed to make it work."}, {"bbox": [148, 926, 1131, 1085], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The GIZ Waste to Value project demonstrated that business models and mobilisation of MSMEs are an effective approach to enhance the value of waste and reduce the amount brought into dumps and landfills and scattered to rivers. Developing 5-year plans for waste management at the local authority level is a successful initiative. But it is imperative to institutionalise and embed waste management activities to overall District plans to ensure their implementation. The lack of data and very low reliability of the existing data are key problems when developing plans with local authorities."}, {"bbox": [148, 1087, 1131, 1167], "category": "List-item", "text": "* An earlier EU funded waste management project implemented by UNOPS demonstrated the necessity of mobilising all stakeholder groups from the start of planning, to monitoring, to the end, for effective implementation of a sustainable system."}, {"bbox": [148, 1168, 966, 1195], "category": "List-item", "text": "* UNDP demonstrated that technologies for biogas production are available and viable."}, {"bbox": [85, 1209, 397, 1240], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [96, 1255, 610, 1282], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is that:"}, {"bbox": [96, 1300, 1158, 1615], "category": "Text", "text": "**IF** the capacities of all relevant stakeholders (households, community, government, private sector with emphasis on women and people living in vulnerable situations) are increased especially in analysing, developing and creating biodiversity and waste management plans; and **IF** there are inclusive and gender-responsive business models and bankable proposals to achieve goals in management plans and protection of biodiversity; as well that **IF** the waste managers and communities are able to improve and reduce waste management including through innovative technologies and plastic free-zones, and finally **IF** the local communities and the private sector are meaningful engaged in the governance of natural resources including for nature-based tourism, waste management – **THEN** national institutions have better tools to comply with existing regulations, provide sufficient resources, and have knowledge and skills, all stakeholder groups are mobilised to effectively manage waste and have knowledge about the new technologies, and the improved governance is expected to achieve improved protection of biodiversity, especially through improved management of waste."}, {"bbox": [1026, 1681, 1141, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 20"}]