Human resources, infrastructure and finance are the foundation in ensuring effective and efficient implementation of strategies and action plans in a sustainable manner. Strengthening human resources, by investing in institutional capacities, and by creating a culture of competencies-based training and capacity development in the country, is the priority in this direction.

To make this transformational process successful, the National HWC Mitigation Strategy and Action Plan focuses on interventions including mapping the competencies of professionals and expert institutions/ organisations, developing competencies-based nationally standardized locally-customised curricula and participatory training methods, to be eventually integrated into the regular curriculum of all national and state-level training institutions of forest, veterinary, administrative, rural development and Panchayati Raj institutions, police, disaster management, media and other relevant sectors.

Focus will be to strengthen individual competencies in forest and other key relevant sectors, including frontline staff, mahouts and daily wage workers.