The project is designed such that community participation is indispensable at every level of implementation. Firstly, the activities for livelihood have been identified in consultation with the communities in question. In 2011, the district development plan included needs that are reflected the the livelihood activities of the project. Makpele Chiefdom is not part the Kenema District and was therefore not included in the plan. However, in 2012 GreenAfrica and the GRNP collaborated to consult with forest edge communities in the seven Gola chiefdoms. The livelihood projects proposed here were the most prominent on the communities list of priorities. The project design and implementation plan requires that community members drive the innovative livelihood activities themselves. Management of refrigeration and household lighting/charging units will all be by community members who would be taught the basic operating skills from installation stage and as they go on. This approach ensures that they can go on afterwards knowingly and confident. The project?s provision of financial and material support will be discontinued once initial turnover cycle is complete. Communities from that point on have to fund activities using the income generated from the activity. The project will utilize the empowerment monitoring and evaluation approach. This will involve joint monitoring and evaluation in collaboration with beneficiary community members. Some capacity for this will be required on the part of the beneficiaries and the project will provide some technical support for such capacity. At the very outset the community members and implementing organization will settle on how to measure the indicators and how appropriate they are for reflecting achievement of objectives. There will be monthly meetings (in addition to other activity specific meetings) held between the community members and implementing organization. The process will inform the quarterly reports that ASAE makes on the implementation.

The project will record and share periodic reports reflecting all the lessons that are learnt over the implementation process. ASAE?s annual report that will be widely distributed will also bear a section that highlights the major activities, outcomes and impacts of the project. The annual report will be widely distributed in the country to partners, CSOs, CBO and other communities groups and members. The project will utilize other previously learnt lessons but will continually revise approaches and strategies reflecting lessons learnt in the course of implementation. However, discussion programs via the electronic media will be a part of the project. This will make for facilitating education to a wider body of local people as well as making for sharing lessons and information.