This project title sustainable management of community forest through appropriate climate smart agricultural practices, capacity development and climate change adaption measures will build synergies on previously implemented programmes. It will help to strengthen the way and manner the communities are currently deforesting their forest all in the name of seeking livelihood to support their families, damages cause due to crude agricultural practices such as slash and burning will be well handle through capacity building and the introduction of new and appropriate farming techniques using the climate smart agriculture initiative. The activities of this project will also strengthen community information flow in terms of best practices amongst members of the different groups and it will facilitate field trips to the different sites of the members of the crops.

The rationale for implementing such an initiative is to provide practical solution at the community level to be able to tackle climate change through the demonstration of practices on climate smart agriculture that can be replicable into a bigger scale, initiative of afforestation will continue to improve the community forest cover, swamp development to increase productivity and discourage the idea of upland farming which has the tendency to increase the level of erosion as a result of heavy down pour of rain and also reduce the forest cover. The project if implemented will come out with both intended and unintended benefits to the direct beneficiaries through livelihood support and increase revenue generation and to the community through sustainable environment protection and management as a result of the introduction of climate smart agricultural practices and sustainable forest management. The project will build on synergy and because it is community owned there will be greater community commitment in terms of local contributions and the use of other previous funding resources to strengthen its implementation.
The specific objectives are as follows:

? To facilitate the sustainable management of community forest through afforestation programme
? To implement climate smart agricultural practices through the establishment of community forest to enable the transfer of new technologies and skills.
? To enable capacity development in the aspect of record keeping and farm management skills.
? To support the establishment of swamp development initiatives that will discourage upland farming which have great effect on the environment and climate change.