Start up grants will be provided to 200 beneficiaries in the project area.

The Intergenerational Dialogue tool ensures thorough community participation from project conception to phasing out. Key stakeholders including local authorities and community functionaries will be consulted to support the project. Baseline information will be captured through initial engagements with community members. The community facilitators effect the implementation through engagement of dialogue participants for five consecutive weeks-once per week: young male, young female, old female and old male generations and consolidation of inputs. During the dialogue sessions, pledges, commitments and requests for actions will be made by both the new and old generations. Memorandum of understanding will be agreed upon and actions plan developed for implementation. The dialogue tool promotes gradual phasing out by the IP as community facilitators gradually take lead roles in the implementation process. The implementation commences after the first public meeting and bye-laws effected. Monitoring is done by the community themselves and the local authorities settle cases of deviations from the agreement. The IP gathers information from the community facilitators and feeds it into the progress and monitoring report on a monthly basis. After six months, comparative learning is facilitated by bringing the various clusters together to highlight successes, success factors, challenges, best practices and poor practices. Consequently gaps will be pinpointed and refresher training customized to fill gaps. Also worthy to note is that all IEC materials will be designed based on pledges, commitments and agreed actions during the interactive sessions. An annual meeting will be held to assess project outcomes and changes.

The project will develop strategic communications reinforcing messages that convey a sense of urgency in dealing with environmental change by use of the media and Town Hall Meetings and will influence behavior patterns and encourage a stronger sense of responsibility and concern for the environment among targeted community members by formulating bye-laws on replanting of trees, supporting forest guards to protect reserved areas and community members do not construct shelters on dangerous areas, or areas that will contaminate water points and use local nets that will catch small-fish.

Throughout the life span of the project, participatory learning will be done and targeting of women and children can be viewed as strong sustainability approach plus income generating initiatives on which other up scaling activities will be built. It is hoped that continuity will be assured in the long term as women we transfer the knowledge to their siblings and children will similarly engage their peers and adults.

training services will be supported for project beneficiaries in various skill sets including environmental communications, land management, SMEs etc