Cooperation among Children’s Book Council of Iran and MENARID International Project was began in 2014 to establish “Local Development Center” including library, toy house and local museum in Aliakbar city, Hamoon Region, Sistan and Baluchistan. The prime objective of MENARID project to do this activity was to promote capacity, knowledge and awareness of children, teenagers, youth and their mothers in field of natural resources, environment, and impacts of land degradation, drought, wind and soil erosion, as well as their effects to local people lives. Also, the project seeks to create a center for dialogue, brainstorming and increase social trust and synergy the potential among local people in order to achieve participatory activities. 

Representatives of Wetlands project accompanied MENARID team in Zabol and Zahedan to meet Sistan’s authorities on Hamoon Wetlands integrated management.