The USAID Ecosystems/ Protibesh Activity is a 5-year project that is funded by USAID. The objective of the activity is to promote the conservation of ecosystems in key biological areas. The activity aims to build the Government of Bangladesh’s (GOB) capacity to respond to a wide array of threats to biodiversity conservation in collaboration with civil society organizations and community stakeholders. This activity will target local communities in regions with key biodiversity areas, which include the Sundarbans Reserve Forest in southwestern Bangladesh, the ecologically critical forest and wetland zones of north-eastern Bangladesh. The major objectives of the assignment will be to identify human- ecosystem interaction and contributions to ecosystem degradation and biodiversity threats and identify feasible and community-accepted alternative economic activities that will reduce natural resource dependency and help to reduce threats to biodiversity and conservation. For this assignment, CPL will conduct around 170 KIIs and 20 FGDs with different stakeholders involved in the forest or wetland management and with natural resource-dependent commiunities in Sylhet and Khulna region.