Goal, Purpose and Outputs of the Programme
 The
overall goal of the programme 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 programme components are.
- Leasehold plots are managed so as to meet household subsistence
and income needs and protect the environment;
- Llivestock have contributed to meeting household food income needs;
- The leasehold groups and the village finance association have become
sustainable rural financial institutiops;
- Government has developed the capacity to implement leasehold forestry
as a poverty reduction programme in a gender sensitive way.
The expected programme
outputs are
- 3300 leaseholder groups functioning effectively in 31000 ha of degraded
forest and the leasehold plots devcloped 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 programme
activities in a gender sensitive way.
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