In most rural households, women are the providers of energy and potable water. The improvement of livelihoods will lessen the burden on women as they will learn about doing backyard gardens to sell for extra income, but also family consumption. Most community developments projects has most of the participants as women and men are absent or employed elsewhere. Because of the high participation of women in previous engagements and projects in the same areas, we expect that women will be taking a leading role in the project. However, men provide construction material, livestock rearing and upkeep for the benefit of the home.

No.

The organization has been established recently and will benefit from training on good governance, proposal writing, log frame development, budgeting, impact assessments and evaluating the business model from an income generation and sustainability accounting, project management, and monitoring and evaluation.

The project would include data capture and recording of all processes involved. This will include a short video of change/ lessons which can help in replication in other communities in future and lessons learned.

Youth will be engaged in the implementation of the ecotourism component of the project.