Environment and social management framework and tribal development framework

The development objective of the Ecosystems Service Improvement Project for India is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the department of forestry and community organizations to enhance forest ecosystem services and improve the livelihoods of forest dependent communities in Central Indian highlands. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) risk of elite capture - exclusion of poor, marginal and landless stakeholders from resource use planning and management; (ii) risk of monoculture plantations leading to simplification in structure and composition of plant and animal communities; (iii) increased grazing pressure elsewhere by cattle displaced from afforestation activities in Common Property Resources (CPRs) and forest lands; (iv) conflicts around use of and access to forest resources, common lands, grazing lands and conflicts between forest department and forest dwellers; and (v) risks related to the selection of exotic specifies for biological restoration.