The initiative supports community-led sustainable development through participatory planning workshops, leveraging local knowledge, training in eco-friendly techniques, establishing village savings and loan associations, supporting women’s collectives, strengthening community forestry management, promoting local innovations, and advocating for increased investments in grassroots development.
- Organizing participatory planning workshops bringing together diverse stakeholders
- Leveraging local knowledge and priorities to guide project design and implementation
- Facilitating training in eco-friendly techniques like agroforestry, watershed management
- Establishing village savings and loan associations for self-managed local financing
- Supporting women’s collectives in producing and marketing indigenous foodstuffs
- Strengthening community forestry management groups for sustainable fuelwood supply
- Promoting local innovations and appropriate technologies enhancing sustainability
- Building evidence on effective community-driven models for replication and scaling
- Advocating for increased investments in grassroots community development”