The National Conservation Strategy (NCS) is a comprehensive strategy for Pakistan approved in 1992 to provide guidelines on the conservation of natural resources and sustainable development. It was developed through extensive stakeholder consultation over three years. The NCS' objectives are the conservation of natural resources, sustainable development, and improved efficiency in resource use and management. It also aims to increase public participation in environmental management and integrate environment and economic considerations in decision making. The NCS identifies priority areas for action such as agriculture, forests, rangelands, water, fisheries, wildlife, energy, and pollution control. It provides policies and measures for each area to promote sustainable resource use and management.

2. National Conservation Strategy (NCS)
Raheela Shabbir

3. Contents
• Introduction/History
• Objectives
• Overarching Principles
• NCS Donors
• NCS Implementation Committee
• Review of NCS
• Recommendations
• Priority Areas

4. National Conservation Strategy
(NCS) early nineties
a multi stakeholders and
comprehensive consultative
process
prepared by a team of
experts over a three-
year period
approved by the Federal Cabinet of
Pakistan on 1 March 1992

5. Objectives
Conservation of
Natural Resources Sustainable
Development
Improved Efficiency in the use and
Management of Resources

6. • Achieving greater Public Partnership in
Development and Environmental
Management
• Merging Environment and Economics in
decision-making
• Focusing on Durable Improvements in the
quality of life in Pakistan

7. World
Bank
CIDA
EU

8. Chairman(Planning
Commission)
Ministry of Housing
and Works,
Environment & Urban
Affairs Division
Ministry of Food,
Agriculture and Co-
operatives
Ministry of Petroleum
and Natural
Resources
Secretary
Ministry of Water
and Power
Ministry of Industries
NCS Implementation Committee

9. In late 2000 by
Expert teams
(local & foreign)

10. • NCS needs refocusing and closer link to achievable
development outcomes; this should constitute the agenda
of the next phase of NCS, (NCS-2)
• Prepare NCS- 2 to serve as Pakistan’s sustainable
development strategy for 2002-2012, with a grater
emphasis on poverty reduction and economic
development in addition to environmental sustainability.
• Expand the range and scale of financial mechanisms for
meeting NCS objectives

11. • Agriculture
• Policies: Prevent overuse,
degradation, erosion and
improve fertility of soil
Measure: Develop soil and water
conservation plans, protect
high-risk erosion areas, use and
adopt water conservation
solutions & compatible cropping
systems

12. • Policies: Use forest resources
sustainable and Preserve and
manage on a representative basis
some old forests to maintain the
bank of biodiversity.
• Measure:· Strengthen the forest
departments and Promote the private
sector to take the lead role in
irrigated plantations and farm
forestry

13. RANGELAND REHABILITATION
• Polices: System should repair rangelands and to
ensure sustainable income to range land inhabitants
on interval basis
• Measures: Issue rangeland management licenses and
Improve services of department & multi sectors but
programmers should be cost effective.
• provide technical & relevant advices

15. Policies
• priorities to increase irrigation effectiveness.
• Promote biological approach & engineering
solutions to solve problems of salinity
sodality & water logging
Measures:
• For salinity & water logging solutions
research should be done with addition of
biological solutions
Water management

18. Policies
• Protect and restore fishing habitats, with harvesting
restricted to the level of annual sustainable yields.
Measures
• Harvest fisheries on a sustainable yield basis
FISHERIES

19. WILDLIFE AND HABITAT
Policies
•Increase the numbers of national
parks and game reserves.
Measures
•Introduce incentives to safeguard
conservation areas and divert
pressures from threatened wildlife
habitats and species

20. ENERGY
Policies
• Expand the use of coal to meet short-term, electricity
demand requirements, based on the least polluting
technology and current emission standards.
Measures
•Assign clear roles for the public and private sectors in
supplying energy

21. POLLUTION CONTROL
Policies
• Adopt domestic wastewater treatment
technologies that provide for
recovery and reuse of water,
nutrients, and organic matter
Measure
• Encourage source reduction, through
recovery by industrial units of heavy
metals before discharge