MDA will take care to ensure its activities, including technological are fully gender mainstreamed. In a practical sense this means that MDA has the commitment and implements a strategy to ensure that women?s concerns and experiences are integral to the ongoing design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of our activities in food security and income generation, and environmental conservation. In this way we aim to benefit women. A key modality of the gender mainstreaming strategy will be the capacity building of innovative Self Reliance Groups (SRG) within the SGP project, to help poor families achieve a more balanced economic contribution of women to their household incomes.

To encourage people's participation project activities will be scheduled in accordance with people?s availability and the requirement of a project committee. Benefit sharing among members of a users' group will be guaranteed. Activities, which solve the farmers' most pressing problems such as on-farm conservation, water management systems, and income generation activities will be promoted. GEF/MDA funding will be a package plan which contains a sequence of measures geared to address the priority problems identified by women, Mid-level technicians in the field will he oriented in project goals from time to time, trained regularly, and he involved in the field-level decision making process. Mechanisms for receiving their feedback regularly will have been developed during project design. Experts will make regular and frequent field visits to observe and to discuss community organization and community development. It is equally important for field-based staff to visit farmers' houses regularly.