A significant proportion of the land to be rehabilitated is rangeland and as such, herders will be involved throughout the paroject particulalarly in rangeland rehabilitation activities.

Due to the nature of the intervention?s long term goal, the need for community ownership and involvement, capacity building of existing groups, associations and whole communities to sustain the initiatives will feature greatly in the initial phase of the project. ?This will include training and supporting local villagers to establish and maintain small nurseries which will be the key suppliers of some of the project inputs. ?With support from local authorities, communities will identify susceptible and affected areas to be dealt with and protected. Identification of such has sites has been undertaken as part of pre implementation preparations. ?Design and implement small community driven initiatives aimed at protecting the environment while establishing individual and group initiatives that will improve their livelihoods. ?Though secondary to the project goal, the project aims to support local CSO initiatives that seek to improve member socio-economic status, by helping in organisational development.