The overall goal of the program is a sustained reduction in the poverty of the 44,300 poor households who are allocated leasehold forestry plots through increased production of forest products and livestock products. The purpose of the program components are.
- Leasehold plots are managed so as to meet household subsistence and income needs and protect the environment;
- Livestock have contributed to meeting household food income needs;
- The leasehold groups and the village finance association have become sustainable rural financial institutions;
- Government has developed the capacity to implement leasehold forestry as a poverty reduction program in a gender sensitive way.
The expected program outputs are
- 3300 leaseholder groups functioning effectively in 31000 ha of degraded forest and the leasehold plots developed according to their operational plans
- 44300 leaseholders have used improved livestock husbandry systems to manage the livestock distributed with support from the village livestock assistants.
- 330 village financial association established to provide saving and credit services to leaseholders.
- The Leasehold Forestry Division has managed and coordinated program activities in a gender sensitive way.
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