The project is managed by Soroti Rural Development Association, a local CBO in Soroti district. It is involved in the promotion of sustainable community conservation activities to help alleviate the environmental problems in the area. The GEF focal areas addressed are land degradation, biodiversity conservation and climatic change mitigation. Activities include biodiversity conservation through sustainable natural resource utilisation and management, diversification of livelihood options such as beekeeping, animal rearing and restocking, poultry breeding, conservation education, tree planting and fruit orchards among others. The area experiences problems of land degradation and rural poverty. The activities being promoted therefore aim at mitigating some of these problems and to strengthen the capacity of local communities in conservation issues.