Marginalized ethnic groups and women will be targeted as beneficiaries in this program. They will receive jobs, training and alternative livelihoods. These groups will also participate in project planning, implementation and evaluation.

The Rumuruti Forest Association was officially registered in 2006 but it's members started as far back as 1994 preserving Rumuruti Forest. As such this is a community initiative owned by the members. To ensure community participation, the following strategies will be employed: · Formation of project implementation committee to coordinate all the activities including monitoring of work progress and holding of regular planning meetings to discuss on the way forward and allocation of duties to the members. · Members will be required to contribute towards unskilled labour and a certain percentage of cash for the purchase of kiln and hive materials. · During the sharing out of kins and hive materials, heads of households and user groups will be required to assure the management committee of their readiness to install the kilns and hives. · School heads and board of government will be involved to utilize green charcoal and provide necessary support. · User group members works in shifts at the tree nurseries particularly during seed preparation and watering of seedbed/seedlings which further enhances the group?s spirit and ensures ownership of the project, this cohesion will be embraced during kiln and hive installation; User groups will also be involved in eco-tourism activities. · Regular meetings will be convened to deliberate on the group?s activities and on how the performance of the project could be enhanced; · Project activities will be monitored by the management committee on monthly basis where activities, results and outputs of the preceding months will be used as benchmarks for current month. However the proposed project intends to put in place the following measures to ensure that community participation is sustained throughout the project period: · The project implementation committees who will coordinate the proposed project will be democratically elected by the general members in special general meetings that will precede the project activities. · The project by laws will be enforced if need be to ensure successful implementation of the proposed projects; · Every member will be required to contribute towards the purchasing of materials, skilled labour and to provide unskilled labour during the installation of energy saving stoves and construction of rocket stoves. · Government officials?; provincial administration, line Ministries (MoA) will be co-opted into the project implementation Committee to ensure that community interests are protected and respected. · Marginalized ethnic groups and women will be targeted as beneficiaries in this program. They will receive jobs, training and alternative livelihoods. These groups will also participate in project planning, implementation and evaluation.

The project will support the development of non-timber forest products and values within the local communities, which will provide livelihoods and encourage the sustainable management of the Rumuriti forest.