BILATERAL MATCHING INSTITUTION: ISSUES IN PARTICIPATORY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND WELL - BEING OF THE COMMUNITY

Abstract

The humans use biological resources for their survival andwell - being. While human need biological resources for survival their actions are guided and regulated by both social and government institutions.Though there is no dearth of knowledge, policies, acts, rules, financial support for conservation of biodiversity but the results are not encouraging. Social institutionsare established sets of norms and sanctioned procedures. It can be designed to facilitate biodiversity conservation in view of societal need. Same way the government institutions are also established to meet the need and overall development of the society. The government institutions if work with social institution to conserve biodiversity will have desired result in the form of Bilateral Matching Institutions (BMI). The Government functionaries and the community can be sensitized for the common goal of conservation. The paper states how the challenges of biodiversity conservation can be addressed by designing effective community based social institutions and integrate them with the government institution through BMI that can lead to biodiversity conservation and contribute towards human well - being.