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Special Features

Social Participation

The project will promote community organization for natural resource management. Using a process approach, trained provincial staff of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries; Department of Environment; and contracted nongovernment organizations will select communities willing to participate in project activities. The communities will be trained in group activities. The poorer sections of the communities and women, particularly those who head households, will be encouraged to take part.

Beneficiaries

The project will provide full opportunities for women, especially those who head households, to participate in community organization, representation, training, training of trainers, and decision-making.

The target is to allocate 40% of seats in community organizations to women depending on specific local situations and needs. Subgroups of women will be organized at village level for training and capacity building for participation and leadership.

Livelihood Attributes

Community information collected in the process of prioritizing targets will serve for project monitoring and evaluation. This information will define the communities in terms of natural resource base, social stratification, poverty, livelihood systems, conflict, agricultural production, food insecurity, indebtness, organization, gender issues and access to economic resources. Participatory techniques will be used throughout and in evaluation by an external research institute after 2 years.