The project is promoting an integrative community led conservation process for sustainable development, poverty eradication and environmental conservation. Yale Ikom Can Atur Farmers Association (YICAFA), a local CBO implements the project. ?YICAFA is a local dialect word (in Langi) for struggle against "poverty?.

The project area has a rich biodiversity e.g.forests, wetland ecosystems, savanna woodlands and water bodies (e.g. Lake Kyoga. However , this fragile ecosystem is faced with shifting cultivation causing land degradation, civil conflicts, biodiversity decline, de-forestation and increasing poverty levels. The area is a predominantly peasant agricultural community. Poverty, deforestation, fishing, population growth, increased human activities threaten the forests/wetlands (natural resource base) ecosystem.

The GEF focal areas addressed is Mitigation of climate change, Biodiversity Conservation and International Waters as it along the shores of Lake Kyoga and Victoria Nile.

Main Interventions include: Promotion of renewable energy technologies, agro-forestry, tree planting and, bee keeping and honey processing and other livelihoods initiatives to diversify and increase avenues of household income especially for rural women.

YICAFA has leveraged funding (USD$9,210) from the Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) Telefood Uganda Project for the Bee keeping component to complement SGP seed funding.