By equipping women with financial and technical resources to restore degraded lands and develop small-scale enterprises, Integrated Development in Focus is steadily improving crop yields and local incomes. Women-led groups have planted three million trees and restored 350 hectares of land. Communal labor prepares and maintains individual plots of land on a rotating basis. Farmers are trained in organic farming techniques and supported to access new and more lucrative markets for their produce. Growth is ensured through a model whereby each woman who receives training is responsible for training ten other women as a condition of support. Small-scale businesses have been launched in livestock rearing, composting, and organic vegetable cultivation. Partnerships with local municipalities, chiefs, and elders support fire management and environmental watchdog communities
