It is a result of partnership between Bhutan, United Nations Development Programme and Global Environment Facility that strives to address the concerns of adverse impacts of climate change on rural livelihood security (SDG 13) and poverty (SDG 1), and the effects of sector-led development practices on the ecological integrity of biodiversity-rich forested landscapes (SDG 15). The long-term solution envisaged by the project is to ensure the effective climate resilient management of forest areas including biological corridors and adjoining protected areas, securing ecosystem services that underpin livelihoods, local and national development and climate change adaptation (CCA).