In this project, roles and responsibilities will be shared between project staff and the partners throughout the project phases. Staff will play guidance and facilitator?s role, while the community partners will have their capacities built for monitoring and implementation roles alongside staff. As in the development of this proposed project, ENVE held series of community conversation meetings with local authorities, farmers, teachers, pupils, women group representatives, youth groups and land owners where indigenes expressed concerns over the rapid deterioration of the environment citing short fallow periods, mined-out pits as death traps as examples . This induced the mobilization and participation of the people as well as influence in the change of the people?s awareness. Local leadership capacity will be strengthened in environmental protection to enable informed participation and involvement of the local partners, children, parents, and the community in the implementation of the programme activities. All project beneficiaries will be from the respective communities and consulted at every stage of the implementation. Being consulted and participating in decision-making helps women and children to gain a better understanding of their own wishes and needs, and how these can be expressed to men. Participation provides opportunities to acquire and practice the skills of debate, communication, negotiation, individual and group decision-making. Through participation women and children are encouraged to be active creators rather than passive consumers. In the process of implementing people learn by doing and to analyse the world issue beyond their personal situations. Participation is thus about growing up to become productive and responsible citizen. ENVE and partners in the district will be intentional to facilitate meaningful participation of children while their contribution will be taken seriously. Children?s Nature clubs will be given significant input in shaping this project. Project monitoring and evaluation will be joint and participatory with all stakeholders on board to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in delivery.

Sustainability of the project objectives will be achieved through involvement of all stakeholders; parents, children, women, business community, politicians, community leaders, school administrations and funders in project activity planning, implementation and monitoring. At the community level the project will be jointly managed by the community care givers and households who will communicate results for awareness creation on environmental protection and natural resources management. Community youth groups will be instrumental in the mobilization, communication, replication and scaling-up of the project activities. The local council who is our biggest partner will provide technical advice and manpower to monitor quality of project interventions for replication. Community capacity to effectively engage or communicate to service providers in project management area will be built through shared planning, implementation and monitoring and trainings for Parish development committees. Coordination meetings and learning forums involving community representatives and collaboration partners will be periodically conducted at community level. Hosting of the forums will be rotated among the sections to enhance communication and dissemination of project successes, challenges, required changes and lessons learnt to all stakeholders. The plus minus and river of life tools will be used to guide the sharing of experiences and documentation.

The ownership of the project during the life of the project will be transferred to recipients based on monitoring reports. Therefore, ENVE will mobilize and mentor the local partners through joint planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation monitoring of project activities. The purpose of mentoring the partners is to help them understand the principles of sustainability and their application. ENVE has included various livelihood components -like eco-stoves production, inland valley swamps, microcredit etc- to support communities through specific long-term livelihood needs and for environmental sustainability.