During 1990s, there was an emerging trend of local initiatives in the field of environmental protection and natural resource management, which were initiated by different players ranging from grass-root level to national scale. These new change factors include researchers, non-governmental organisations, and grass-root groups, who often have less access to governmental budget or outside funding. However, there was not any funding mechanism that directly supports small local initiatives to protect the environment and manage natural resources at community level.
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