In order to keep the project sustainable, its implementation will be developed around technical criteria to ensure their compatibility with the local environment and needs of the area. The criteria will also ensure that loans for the small projects will be allocated fairly and transparently. An officer will be employed and trained to manage the credit system on a permanent basis and officially employed by the Society following the conclusion of the project. A technical supervisor will also be employed on a permanent basis for the project, to ensure recording the experience and lessons learnt. A considerable component of the project will invest in an awareness programme targeting the locals, so that the project idea is well understood and accepted, and that environmental and developmental issues in the district are understood

Several activities to be supported by the project will include income-generating activities, assisting local community improve their livelihood.

Small projects supported by the project will be managed on a revolving loaning mechanism, providing the opportunity for sustainability of project activities and broadening of beneficiary base over a long period of time.

The CBO is a local community committee that was formed as a result of extensive community meetings facilitated by the technical assistant (Plan:Net). The local community is directly represented in the committee and the project idea was reached through PRA process.

The project can be summarized as one that employs an integrated programme to enhance the management of water resources available in the Mujib District, for the sake of meeting the basic needs of the local community and relating this to the local environmental state.This will be implemented through the process of collecting rainwater from rooftops in ground-level rainwater collection wells. It will thereafter be utilized to meet the needs of the household and the development of the surrounding gardens by various local productive trees and plants that would bring financial returns to the household. In order to implement and enhance the water use efficiency in the Mujib District, while ensuring an improvement in the quality and production of soil and the local environment. The following objectives of the project are: - Raising the effectiveness of water use and conserve its use at the level of the household; - Improving the soil and the local environment and linking this to support household finances and food; - Advancing the level of awareness in water and local environment and promote their sustainable use; - Strengthening the capacity of Al-Amer Villages Social Development Society to better serve the community.

Women and men are targeted by all activities of the project.