2nd DPL to Support Inclusive Green Growth and Sust Devlp in HP

<span style='font-family:times new roman,serif; font-size:10.5pt'>The objective of this Programmatic DPL series is to support a sub-set of GoHP&rsquo;s plan to improve the State&rsquo;s management of its natural resources across growth engines of the economy and to promote inclusive green growth and sustainable development.</span> <strong>This two-part programmatic DPL series is designed to support a subset of Government of Himachal Pradesh (GOHP&rsquo;s) plan that involves enabling policies, institutional actions and piloting of innovative practices that are deemed catalytic and will provide the long-term foundational changes that are needed to achieve this objective</strong>: Adoption of environmentally sustainable and socially responsible hydropower development in the ongoing hydro development program;</li> Promotion of sustainable development through climate change-related adaptation and &nbsp;mitigation actions; &nbsp;</li> Empowering local communities to promote watershed management;</li> Promotion of an environmentally sustainable industrial development;</li> Implementation of an environmentally sustainable tourism program; and</li> Instituting mechanisms for integration of spatial GIS based information in informed decision making.&nbsp;</li> </ul> &nbsp; The CTF-funded Second Inclusive Green Growth and Sustainable Development DPL will be supporting GoHP in transformative policy actions in the sectors that are key engines of growth (i.e. energy, industry and tourism). These transformativeactions include policy reforms and institutional reforms based on the piloting of innovative practices.