2195 plant were planted in the tank bed Capacity building program was carried out for 72 officials in divisional secretariat division.

? Home based enterprises development with agro based products by preserving available fruits and vegetables in the project area. ? Increase the productivity of organic home gardens and develop small production units in the project area, with a view to promoting sale of organic vegetables and fruits to gain extra income for the project beneficiaries and promote healthy and nutrient rich food consumption among consumers.

Beneficiaries will be empowered through awareness and training programs on organic agriculture and agro-based enterprise development. School children and local government officials will be educated on the importance of biodiversity protection in total tank environment and its impact on sustainable livelihoods. Youth group in the village will be empowered to act as a focal group to sustain the project.

Most significantly dry zone home garden practice will be promoted through field based training programs. Preparation of a Biodiversity Register mostly for the students and researchers in general. Furthermore, awareness creation lectures were conducted in five schools in the Alisthana neighbourhood. Finally, when plant diseases and plant maintenance problems occur getting the specific consultants to address the issues and explain them to the farmer beneficiaries.

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Participatory project approach will be always maintained with available labour inputs of all family members in the village, particularly women will be encouraged to lead roles in home garden activities and marketing. Women and men together will take the leading role in tree planting activities and all related activities, and hence the gender unbalance will not affect the project in any way.

Throughout the community awareness process, the community will be enlightened on importance of biodiversity and global environment challenges through a series of awareness programmes, capacity building training, handouts, providing expert advice, field visits and on-the-job experience. Public awareness would be made available through web articles and in the Annual Report of the South Asia Partnership Sri Lanka for 2013-2014 and 2014- 2015 to draw the attention of the public on global environment challenges. School children and local government officers will be made aware of the importance of environment conservation and sustainable agriculture. Display materials will be widely used in the project area to get the attention of local communities on environment conservation. Also short video clips will be disseminated through social media regarding the project outcomes.

Yes. Farmer community will practice sustainable agricultural methods while providing a home garden model to other dry zone villages. It is recommended that the cascade based village development be replicated in other cascade based villages, as well.

Youth were involved in the project activities from project inception and contributed towards the baseline data collection, village mapping and for village resource identification. Moreover, youth have actively participated in the tree planting activities, such as, plant transporting, digging the plant holes and watering. They were actively engaged in home gardening (using organic fertilizer) along with their elders