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News Letter; MENARID Int’l Project Summer 2015 - No. 10 License Holder: MENARID International Project Managing- Director: Parviz Garshasbi Editor-in- Chief: Houshng Jazi Executive editor: Nazli Honarbakhsh Editorial Board: Asyeh Rezaei, Ahmad Yazdani , Seyed Ali Vesali, Kamyar Shokouhi Razi, Mehrdad Zoghi, Morteza Behzadfar, Ali Hasanzadeh Lay out & Graphics: Mohammad Ghasem Bagherzadeh Publishing Supervisor: Ahmad Darmanlou Publisher: Balagh Danesh News Letter; MENARID Int’l Project Foreword Houshang Jazi National Project Management MENARID& SMLWR Empowerment and Education; A Proper Ground for Sustainable Development Goals Empowerment is a process of comprehensive change to cre- people and target groups. The following trainings are pre- ate the new capacities and promote the abilities of the socie- sented to management levels and technical experts of the ties in different aspects. To realize the process, it is required organizations: to promote the social and human capitals, because the pre- Danesh Novin Pardakht for environmental services, plan- requisite of each event and continuation of any development ning based on results-based management model, develop- and change is conscious and systematic contribution of the ment of strategy for integrated management of watershed society that is known as the pillar and core in development basin. process. Some trainings presented to local communities in pilot re- One of the characteristics of sustainable development is to gions of these projects are : the method of range collabora- internalize its concept of development across the genera- tive management , gardening, bee keeping, change of plant- tions and different levels of the society; therefore, training, ing method suitable for regional climate, carpet weaving, informing and potential synergy of the society will result in knitting, sewing, shoemaker weaving, planting the medici- mental flexibility and will expand the development indica- nal herbs and extracts…… tors in all quantitative and qualitative aspects. On the other The children and adolescents are the most important repre- hand, training & informing make the individuals have the sentatives of the next generations in educational planning. necessary flexibility to change & amend. Then, Menarid & Establishment of rural development centers including li- Hableh Roud projects are planned and acted on training and brary, toys home, museum of anthropology, along with train- promotion of all beneficiaries’ knowledge. The trainings ing to meet Iran and native regions environment are the edu- in these projects were presented considering the addressed cational activities of these projects for present generation. Summer 2015 - No. 10 76 News Letter; MENARID Int’l Project National News Cooperation between MENARID & Hablehrud Projects and Departments of Presidential Office Nazli Honarbakhsh | Communication Assistant MENARID & Hablehrud projects, shall be provided for INRM. provincial, county and village levels. in their final phase, based on their The importance of such measures Hence, their applicability and feasi- strategic documents are obligated originates from the fact that the bility are tested to be successful. to transfer their strategies, achieve- achievements of the two projects In light of this, various departments ments and patterns in Integrated are realized as per the request of the of the Presidential Office informed Natural Resources Management local communities in coordination of the achievements and successes (INRM) from local to national level. with experts and direct supervision of MENARID and Hablehrud pro- Accordingly, a national framework of managers and decision makers at jects in rural development, women’s Summer 2015 - No. 10 75 News Letter; MENARID Int’l Project empowerment and also effective opportunities in villages based on lo- Eventually, in light of aligned objec- management of water resources ex- cal knowledge, customs and culture tives of the Department of Rural De- pressed their interest in further co- with Department of Women’s Affairs velopment with some objectives of operation with said projects. Depart- of the Presidential Office. MENAIRD and Hablehrud Projects, ment of Women and Family Affairs, Water Group in the Department of an effective cooperation has been Department of Rural Development Science and Technology selected established to provide the possibil- and Department of Science and Hablehrud as the best national mac- ity of replication of achievements Technology of the Presidential Of- ro project in National Water, Land and measures of these two projects fice have held consultative and par- and Environmental Technology in other rural areas in the country. In ticipatory meetings with managers Festival and requested exchange of light of this, National Project Man- and experts of the projects. knowledge in effective management ager of MENARID and Hablehrud, As per the agreements obtained, it of water and land resources with Houshang Jazi and the capacity was decided to share experiences MENARID and Hablehrud projects. building expert of MENARID, Mah- and knowledge obtained by these Hence, in order to the planning of dieh Pourshad were selected and projects in the fields of women and this Department to be informed of fixed members of the Think Tank youth empowerment in preserving the experiences of MENARID and Chamber of Investment and Liveli- the environment and natural resourc- Hablehrud projects, it was decided hood Cluster from Department of es, women’s participation in effective to provide a framework of coop- Rural Development to provide the and sustainable management of natu- eration and joint programs to be de- opportunity of share and transfer of ral resources and women’s livelihood signed and executed. experiences of these projects. MENARID presented the new financial software to representatives of International Projects on Environment and Natural Resources Management Nazli Honarbakhsh | Communication Assistant One of the joint measures of international projects in of the financial process of the activities. In order to re- management of natural resources and environment solve this issue and achieve consistency in financial and within the framework of joint secretariat of these pro- monitoring processes of all projects, design and pro- jects has been design and provision of joint financial vision of this software was included in the agenda of and monitoring software for all developmental projects. the secretariat. In light of this, MENARID project in Following joint meetings of the projects, a dilemma that collaboration with the Conservation of the Iranian Wet- all projects were exposed to was lack of access to Atlas lands project, followed and implemented this project. software (UN financial software) and lack of awareness Training workshop to apply “International Projects’ Fi- Summer 2015 - No. 10 74 News Letter; MENARID Int’l Project nancial and Monitoring Software” was held on August 25, 2015 with the aim of introducing the objectives of this soft- ware and its necessity and importance for international pro- jects and also to offer a general framework for the software to the participants. Participants in this one day workshop included representatives of joint projects of UNDP-GEF and Iran Government on natural resources and environment management, UNDP financial experts and managers from UNDP Environment and Sustainable Development Cluster and MENARID managers and experts. In this workshop, Ali Nazari Doust, in charge of these projects in Tehran UNDP Office, expressed support and agreement of his respective office for the application of this software in the projects. Houshang Jazi, MENARID and Hablehrud manager, stated that provision of this software makes it possible to monitor realization of indicators as considered in the project docu- ment and also produces rigorous information on progress of annual and seasonal action plans. Niloufar Dehghan, ME- NARID financial expert who is in charge of design and pro- vision of this software, addressed that the model used in this software is result-based management model. Every project shall be able to enter its project document and proceed with various financial segments. This software supports individ- ual or server based computers in a project with the option to rank access to information. She stated that the innovation in this software is the possibility of entering qualitative and quantitative indicators and stressed that this portion creates higher discipline in financial measures within projects and reduces human errors and it is possible to include project document, annual and seasonal work plans, RDPs and other documents relevant to project activities which provides an opportunity of constant monitoring for managers. It was recommended for all international projects active in the field of natural resources and environment to apply this software in their financial processes. Summer 2015 - No. 10 73 News Letter; MENARID Int’l Project The 7th Meeting of the Joint Secreteriat of International Projects Hosted by Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah Project Asieh Rezayi | Expert in joint secretariat of International Projects The Seventh joint meeting of the Joint Secreteriat of In- Review of recommendations made by projects as the ternational Projects was held on August 3, 2015 hosted agenda for next meeting. by Conservation Asiatic Cheetah Project in Khojir Na- tional Park. Representatives of UNDP and managers of The managers decided to follow some activities as be- international projects