Project Implementation Strategy:

The project employs participatory approaches to mobilize and empower the stakeholder communities to rehabilitate designated areas on their own. The project especially empowers the poor and other marginalized groups in Hossein Abad and within the larger sub-watershed to manage their own resources, as well as to have the capacity and the confidence to influence policies and to access support from outside. The project implementation approach will also promote “gender equality” to ensure the interests, needs and the priorities of both women and men at all levels of programme implementation. It encompasses issues of decentralized decision-making and control and ownership of financial, natural and material assets. The project is also aimed at putting in place the institutional and social systems that provide an enabling framework for people to participate. Devolution of local planning responsibilities to grass-root levels underpins community-based rehabilitation and resource management. This will enable the target communities to have a greater formal say and responsibility over their livelihoods in line with better management of resources and sustained productivity. The project is based on collaborative rehabilitation and management of natural resources which promotes community-based and community-run initiatives