Data capture and processing will start from preliminary meetings of project implementation and will be packaged into reports specific to the project components and groups involved. The project management unit will compile them into project progress reports (monthly and quarterly). Ecological baselines with fixed pictures will be made to ensure monitored changes over time. The project will also facilitate the capture of lessons through a video and pictures of all project sites, activities and impacts. The Coordination Unit will also generate a paper to be presented in technical symposia for information sharing and peer review. The good practices learnt at the project implementation will be shared at such a forum.

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The management of natural resources resonates well with the youth and women especially in rural areas as they are involved in such activities as livestock rearing and sourcing of firewood and construction materials for the household.

The project seeks to diversify livelihood options in that while the majority of the communities in the Lowveld have engaged in sugar cane production, the development of nurseries for trees and vegetation and related activities will create a different option available to the community and shall actively involve youths and women from the two project areas. Grantee also expects spinoffs from the tree planting project in the long run in that it will create other livelihood options such as honey harvesting in the buffer zone around the sugar cane fields and the rangelands.

The youth will be included in the trainings and will be empowered to understand the environmental issues better, and therefore be key in ensuring sustainable management of the rangelands.