PRAJ's Biodiversity and Grassroots Advocacy Program focuses primarily on providing support to local communities to help them organize and advocate. The project focuses on five main areas: Biodiversity and Community Conservation; Coordinated Advocacy; Guided Planning, Network Building and Technical Support; Community Media; and Youth Initiatives. As part of its recent efforts, the Biodiversity and Grassroots Advocacy Program has:

• Facilitated regional meetings to support network-building and coordinated advocacy in key target areas, with special focus on illegal land concessions and ill-conceived dams and mines;
• Conducted community conservation workshops to plan and follow-up on biodiversity monitoring and related protection and advocacy activities;
• Worked to establish community forest watch activities;
• Helped to expand community media activities in the provinces;
• Initiated youth volunteer groups in four provinces; and
• Facilitated community dialogues that have led to community agreements to stop the unhealthy exploitation of certain natural resources. This included some villages committing to stop using explosives in fishing, and to end local participation in monkey-trapping and illegal logging.