RARE, an international NGO, has more than 15 years experience in running conservation campaigns in more than 30 countries, is now assisting ESP in its efforts to improve watershed management by encouraging the active involvement of all stakeholders (ranging from housewives to local government officials and religious leaders) and promoting positive public attitudes towards environmental and biodiversity conservation.

Among the methods employed to ensure such involvement are the holding of stakeholder meetings and workshops, and the instituting of participatory planning processes so as to identify the roots of conservation problems and the efforts needed to change natural resources management and use patterns