Community involvement, participation and development is a cross-cutting element for any sustainable development process.

Establishing a local leadership to guide, monitor and adjust the tangible and intangible costs and benefits of the development is critical to ensure the long-term sustainability of the local diversity; both cultural & environmental. This has a crucial influence on the success of any initiative.

We are specialized in facilitating between local communities,government, public organisations and stakeholders to produce a unified vision.We see that only partnerships can lead to a successful development.

On the local culture scale, we help to identify and assess local culture social, environmental and economic impacts on their lifestyle and resources. We propose an implementation plan to encourage capacity building through empowerment for local community, developing educational and environmental awareness campaigns and training programmes, to yield both direct and indirect benefits.

On the nationallevel of achievement; Via Nova for Sustainable Development contributes inpreparing:

• National PAsBest Practices

• National PolicyStatement

• National PAManagement System

• Gap Analysisand PAs Prioritization

• PA ManagementPlans

While on the on-site PA development and managementlevels, Via Nova for Sustainable Development has the capabilities to design,prepare PA’s management indicators according to the Threat Reduction Index(TRA) process, prepare adaptive management plans and implement these plansaccording to co-management participatory approach.

Via Nova can plan and implement full scale baselinesurveys that would create a clear picture on the biodiversity and conservationstatus of the PA, to orient the planning and management decisions. Besides conductingthe base-line surveys of flora & fauna, Via Nova undertakes socio-economicand land use schemes; assisting the PAs staff in preparing the zoning plansaccording to the outcomes of the baseline surveys; and undertaking programmesto develop and strengthen human capacities towards more effective management;

Through its home-based expertise andinternational network of associates and consultants, Via Nova has theexperience to conduct assess the wildlife population (numbers, species, andhealth), propose a wildlife sustainable management programme for both nativeand non native species,  assess thegenetic viability, assess wildlife recreation activities, prepare and developanimals record keeping system, translocation of animals into other areas andthe establishment of Game Reserves (hunting reserves) as part of a widerconservation oriented scheme.

Via Nova works within a broad framework of integrated planning approach to achieve sustainable tourism development based on:

• Destination planning

• Tourism activities’ planning and zoning

• Local community involvement

• Carrying capacity assessment

• Responsible visitor management

• Impact-reduction planning

• Market assessment and specialized marketing strategies

• Infrastructure research

• Sustainable business planning

Via Nova combines experiencing/learning about nature and local community with their ensemble of tangible and intangible components, while ensuring that the economic benefit is diverted to the conservation efforts of both the natural and cultural resources, while at the same time ensuring to meet and satisfy the tourists expectations and motivation related to their leisure time.

The tourism product development has never been easy.It is an innovative interlacing of process, product, marketing and management. The Tourism product development must continually self-renew itself each of these areas if it is to sustain itself and be prosperous.

Building on natural and cultural characteristics of the targeted area, VNSD works on setting the standards of quality tourism product activities and services through identifying the uniqueness of the product’s elements and branding that product to create its attractiveness image.

The Architects at Via Nova believe that design is acyclical process which incorporates elements of site, heritage, culture,natural conditions, and use them into a coherent whole to produce a physicaloutcome.

Through the comprehensive analysis of the site,climate, and light; we conceptualize the two-dimensional layout, factoring inthe existing topography, the surrounding area and neighborhood, light, views,wind patterns and the intrinsic energy of the area.

Our product is consistent with architectural designstandards and codes, appropriate to the scale, form, colour and texture of thetargeted area landscape and development visions, suggesting a zoning plan forfuture developments, constructions activities and buffers.

Our Code of Conduct developed along with ourexperience, presents tools and methodologies to minimize impact on environmentthrough appropriate footprint design and techniques, during construction andoperation.

We aspire to create spaces oftranquility…spatial sanctuaries, relaxed and inspiring, elegant in their simplicity,and lofty yet environmentally-grounded spaces.