* The project will create a dynamic on the socio-economic aspect. It aims to contribute to the creation of Sustainable Income Generating Activities through the empowerment of young people and women. * Support the SMSA by providing them with technical assistance and local support and the products will then be marketed in Tunisia and Europe with the experience of experts in fair trade. * Improve vegetation cover and subsequently reduce grazing intensity in forest areas (form of fight against land degradation).

In order to involve, inform and sensitize all project partners on the main expected results for this initiative to be developed by AKAD with the technical and financial support of the GEF in Tunisia, contacts and meetings will be organized. throughout the project. Publications of CD flyers and other media will be produced. At the beginning of the project, these meetings will aim to inform the AKAD government partners as part of the project on its activities, approve the work plan and the implementation timeline and define the repair of activities according to the progress. of the project, For the duration of the project over xx months, meetings will be organized to plan the activities to be carried out and to make evaluations with the youth and the target group of the project to highlight the strengths and weaknesses and find corrective actions for each activity. Realization of flyers and posters on the valorization of natural resources in Zaghdoud. The prospectus and poster to be produced under the project will be considered as an information medium for stakeholders and beneficiaries of the project on the possibilities for the creation of the main income-generating activities by the valorization of local products and by-products. . They will be distributed in several copies to the general public. Presentation day of the awareness program and the project services techniques. ? Journée de sensibilisation et d?animation des élèves d?école Zaghdoud. ? Journée de sensibilisation et d?animation des femmes et des hommes. Lieux de réalisation : Bureau AKAD (Oueslatia), école primaire Zaghdoud ,Dachrat Zaghdoud. Groupes cibles : Représentants des services techniques (direction des forets, CTV, centre de formation agricole El Manzel, INRAT (Institut national de recherche agronomique de Tunisie), le maire du secteur Zaghdoud)

The first strategy is manifested in the AKAD's teamwork (facilitator, environmental engineer, agroeconomist engineer, computer technician ...) and the organization of events well distributed following a concerted local planning. The project team will be composed as follows: - project coordinator - agricultural manager (s) - manager (s) for administrative and financial management

The women will participate in the planting with the men which imposes a collaboration between them, later the sensitization concerning the important social role of the woman will support this collaboration. There will be aromatic and medicinal plants (eg rosemary) for the extraction of essential oils within the SMSA FEMALE EL AMANA and forest and natural pasture plants for grazing. The SMSA El AMANA will be the meeting place for the women beneficiaries, where they will apply the extraction of the oils and present their products which will be commercialized thereafter with the experience of the experts in fair trade which will generate local sources of income for rural women.

Young people will be involved in the animation programs by integrating training on the theme of the environment and the protection of the forest area using a specific program (women, girls, unemployed students)