The project plans to carry out the rehabilitation of the local environment through integrated sustainable land management activities that enhance its service giving capacity thereby community?s livelihood potential is improved and biodiversity resources are conserved by building the capacity of the community to adapt climate change and its effects through training, awareness creation and experience sharing; enabling the rehabilitation of degraded hill sides, farmlands, grazing lands, and gullies and avail alternative source of food and feed; improving the service and production giving capacity of the environment through integrated sustainable land management practices; alleviating pressure on land through creating alternative livelihood and income generating sources; increasing the productivity of agricultural land through applying sustainable land management practices; contributing to the avoidance of deforestation and climate change through the utilization of energy saving stoves and alternative sources of energy; rehabilitating the currently endangered adjacent Hawasa Lake ecosystem caused by huge sedimentation through conserve both the terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity.