The objective of this enterprise is to develop and nurture a community centred approach to biodiversity conservation through the development of sustainable livelihoods and empowerment of women and youth.
Core Principles of the Kaigal Trust
The key principles of the Kaigal Trust are:
- Organizing a community based enterprise for rural development and conservation
- Focusing on sustained conservation efforts with community participation
- Identifying and providing opportunities for locally relevant skill building for the members
- Selecting local bio-resources for value addition, based on their sustainability status – both in the wild and on private lands
- Procuring bio-resoures from the local communities at a fair price
- Developing simple, ecologically sound, affordable, replicable technologies for value addition
- Anchoring and facilitating similar conservation, skill building and community empowerment efforts