Community Empowerment

This component is designed to support empowerment of communities to sustainably manage natural resources. It aims at engaging communities to build their capacity to develop plans aimed at improving NRM while also improving their livelihoods, food security and nutrition. The component therefore supports capacity building at community level through mobilization and awareness raising, establishing and strengthening key community structures and institutions, and development and implementation of community action plans. The outputs of this component include:

• Communities with increased awareness of sustainable NRM
• Key community organizations with increased capacity to manage natural resources sustainably, and
• Community Action Plans for livelihood improvement and sustainable NRM