ESIP has three technical components apart from one project management component

1. Component 1: Strengthening capacity of government institutions in forestry and land management programs in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh

To enhance the capacity and skills of the State Forest Departments, the Forest Development Agencies, and local communities for improving management of forest and land resources and ensuring the delivery of sustainable benefits to local communities that depend on these resources

This component has following activities:

• Staff & JFMC Capacity-Building
• Forest Carbon Stock Measuring and Monitoring - Capacity-building
• NTFP Capacity-Building

2. Component 2: Investments for improving forest quality in selected landscapes

This component has following activities:

• Enhancing and restoring carbon stocks in forestlands
• Developing community-based models for sustainable utilization of NTFP

3. Component 3: Scaling up sustainable land and ecosystem management in selected landscapes 

 This component has following activities:

• Scaling-up of SLEM Best Practices
• Building National Capacity for Land Degradation and Desertification Monitoring
• Development and Implementation of a National Knowledge Network

The main objectives of this component are to prevent land degradation and desertification and to increase above-ground forest carbon stock through a combination of activities to implement and scale-up tried-and-tested SLEM best practices, to increase national capacity for monitoring land degradation, and to track associated indicators and generate knowledge exchange on SLEM approaches

The goal is to benefit small and marginal farmers and other rural poor. It will help to build national capacity for land degradation and desertification monitoring and also support development and implementation of a national knowledge network

Note: ICFRE is one of the implementing agency for sub components 1.2 of component 1 andcomponent 3 besides project management