The project entitled ” Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Developing Sustainable Supply Chain and Enhancing Rural Livelihood in the Eastern Himalayas is implemented with focusing on conserving NTFP resources, reducing poverty and improving livelihood of mountain communities through sustainable development and utilization of high values – low volume medicinal and aromatic plants and their products and their markets and enterprise development. The project develops strategies to harmonize standards and protocols to improve quality and control of the products. This ensures increased marketing skills and bargaining power of locally owned MAP-based micro-enterprises, producers’ associations and individuals and ultimately it provides viable and sustainable income generation options to local communities. The target species of the project are Valeriana jatamansi – Sugandhwal, Sapindus mukorosii – Rittha, Swertia chirayita – Chiraita, and Zanthoxylum armatum – Timur.