5. “How has the initiative improved the socio-economic conditions (livelihoods, incomes, etc) and wellbeing (health, food security, education, etc) of the community? Describe how these wellbeing and livelihoods improvements are linked to environmental conservation, sustainable natural resource management and to local self-sufficiency. “
You are required to provide in detailed about the benefits received by the community from your work. Specifically, you intervention should have contributed to the betterment of the community in terms of their livelihood, health, education etc and how these improvements can be linked to environmental conservation, sustainable natural resource management and to local self-sufficiency.
It is important that you provide a measurement of your success in terms of the number or percentage of benefits attained by the community from your initiative. If your initiative has been providing support to farmers in growing crops, then you need to find out how many farmers (or at least their percentage) whose incomes have increased over time.
For example, COMACO from Zambia working on linking rural households to markets explains the benefits attained by its community members as:
After explain about the improvements taking place in the community, it is important to link to a further outcome towards environmental conservation, sustainable natural resource management and to local self-sufficiency. We can take the example of TCPC’s nomination form. TCPC works to conserve traditional crop diversity and improve the livelihoods of small farmers. Its intervention among other things has contributed to local self-sufficiency as explained below:
