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Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Madagascar
ADIDY MAITSOASSOCIATION
Empowered live
Resilient nation
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UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo
or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth
their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition
themselves guiding the narrative.
To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser
that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ
to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models
replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Years
the Equator Initiative, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.
Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.
EditorsEditor-in-Chie: Joseph Corcoran
Managing Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding
Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver Hughe
Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma,
Mary McGraw, Gabriele Orlandi, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu
DesignOliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la Pa
Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.
AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Adidy Maitso Association, and in particular the guidance and inputs o Andonia
Rambeloson. All photo credits courtesy o the Adidy Maitso Association and Conservation International. CI/Hajasoa Raoeliarivelo (co
photo; page 11, top-right); CI/Norotiana Mananjean (page 7, top); CI/John Martin (pages 4; 6; 7, bottom; 9; 10; 11, bottom-right);
Alain Andriamamonjisoa (page 11, bottom-let). Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia.
Suggested Citation
United Nations Development Programme. 2012. Adidy Maitso Association, Madagascar. Equator Initiative Case Study Series. New York,
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PROJECT SUMMARYAdidy Maitso Association was established in 2005 withthe aim o conserving the natural resources o Didy Forest a dense moist orest o medium altitude in the AlaotraMangoro region o eastern Madagascar. The orest lies withinthe Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor, which is renowned orits high species endemism and unique biodiversity. TheAssociation works through 16 local community associationsto manage and restore the orest corridor, educate localcommunities on the economic benets o biodiversityconservation, and provide training to local armers and
womens groups on agricultural and income diversication.The group is actively engaged in maintaining anindigenous tree nursery, patrolling and surveying localorests to regulate against unsustainable orest use, radioprogramming, training on improved agricultural practicesor greater crop yields, and running a demonstration andtraining centre or local armers.
KEY FACTS
EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2010
FOUNDED: 2005
LOCATION: Ambatondrazaka, Alaotra Mangoro region
BENEFICIARIES: 218 members in 16 villages
BIODIVERSITY: Ankeniheny-Zahamena forest corridor
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ADIDY MAITSO ASSOCIATIONMadagascar
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background and Context 4
Key Activities and Innovations 6
Biodiversity Impacts 8
Socioeconomic Impacts 8
Policy Impacts 9
Sustainability 10
Replication 10
Partners 11
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he Adidy Maitso Association is a or-prot association located
n the Ambatondrazaka district o the Alaotra Mangoro region
Madagascar. Founded in 2005 and ormalized in 2008, the
rganization brings together 16 Koloharena community associationsKoloharena is a Malagasy word which translates literally to looking
ter the wealth and reers to a village association that works to
mprove the living standards o communities while conserving
iodiversity.) Signicant pressures were being exerted on the natural
esources o the Didy Forest, a dense moist orest o medium altitude
600-1200 meters) within the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor,
which is renowned or its high biodiversity, species endemism and
ecognized or connecting an important network o protected
reas in the country. A shortage o arable land had driven the localopulation to rely too heavily on the resources o the orest, resulting
n environmental pressures such as the practice o slash and burn
arming, illegal logging, the (over)collection o non-timber orest
roducts, and some illegal mining operations.
Drawing up o community management plans
Ater numerous lobbying eorts on the part o partners and
upporting organizations, including the French Global Environment
und (FFEM) and Conservation International, the management o
atural resources in Didy was transerred to the community level in
000 . Community management units or VOI (VondronOlona Iotony)
were constituted to bring together volunteers who share commonoals, such as the sustainable management and protection o
enewable natural resources and improving the communitys living
onditions. Each management transer site was urnished with a
management plan which was developed in a participatory manner
with stakeholders rom the Ministry o Environment, communities,
nd local partners. The plans included, among other things, the
oning o a management site, where community member are
llowed to access and use natural resources (within the parameters
certain restrictions); a conservation site, where community
members are orbidden rom taking or using resources; and a
controlled occupancy site, where communities are allowed to
homes and use land or arming. The zoning was based on
ancestral boundaries and local knowledge regarding natural lim
Each community management unit also drated a tai
management plan. One common eature to all management p
were monthly monitoring o the core conservation zone thro
community patrols. These patrols, however, were done o
voluntary basis without remuneration and, while some commu
members were motivated by a prevailing conservation ethic, t
were no economic incentives in place and the local standa
living remained predominantly and comparatively low. Comm
members quickly realized that conservation could not take pover the long-term without consideration or alternative inc
generation activities and adequate economic incentives to ad
with newly introduced restrictions on resource access and use. It
in response to this challenge that the Adidy Maitso Association
ormed.
Roles o Adidy Maitso and its member communities
A division o responsibilities made possible a harmonious wo
relationship between the Adidy Maitso Association and comm
management units. The communities retained responsibility
the conservation o biodiversity and the sustainable managem
o renewable natural resources, while Adidy Maitso assuresponsibility or creating livelihood alternative options. A
Maitso also committed to improving the institutional (governa
ramework o each management unit, and to introducing adeq
incentive structures. The association has since ensured that
community management unit has accountable leadership with
and transparent decision-making mechanisms. It has also suppo
each community in the preparation o regular reports to both
mayor and the local orest service. This has closed a communica
gap between the mayor, traditional chies and an esse
stakeholder in the enorcement o community zoning. By prov
Background and Context
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he local orest service with inormation on how it can best support
ommunity regulation o zoning restrictions, Adidy Maitso has
ectively acilitated a harmonization o enorcement eorts. So too,
ommunity members that participate in patrol activities now receive
n indemnity and stipend which, while not objectively substantial,
rovide enough o an incentive to ensure ongoing participation.
Adidy Maitsos overarching goal is to improve local livelihoods
nd the overall living conditions in its constituent communitiesand to reduce local dependence on the unsustainable extraction
orest resources. The association also works to promote social
ohesion with a view to catalyzing and sustaining community
ction in service o protecting the regions biodiversity. Among
ther objectives, Adidy Maitso works to: promote alternatives to
avy (slash-and-burn) agriculture, identiy and develop livelihood
lternatives, conduct capacity building and peer-to-peer knowledge
xchange in agriculture and livestock management, secure unds to
un a micro-nancing program or Koloharena communities, ensure
he protection and ongoing provision o ecosystem services, and
conserve local biodiversity. While the vision o the organization
not changed substantially since it began, the association now p
greater emphasis on communication (environmental educa
campaigns) and capacity building. Although local people
been heavily dependent on unsustainable methods o reso
extraction or an extended period o time, changes in behavior
largely taken place through awareness raising and environme
education.
Organizational structure
The association is governed by a general assembly and a b
o directors, which consists o a steering committee, an audit
coordinator, and supervisory committees. Adidy Maitso is comp
o 218 members across 16 villages. The general assembly h
statute and meets three times a year. The organization is headed
president and vice president with the support o two secretaries
a treasurer. Presidents o the various Koloharenas serve as advis
Improving the living standards of forest dependent communities allows us to save biodiversi
and fight poverty.
Andoniaina Rambeloson, Adidy Maitso Association
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Key Activities and Innovations
Adidy Maitso Association activities ocus on three broad program
reas: i) strengthening local action in natural resource protection and
egraded orest restoration, ii) improving agricultural productivity,
nd iii) promoting alternative livelihoods.
Mobilizing community action in orest conservation
n regards to strengthening local action in natural resource
protection and degraded orest restoration, Adidy Maitso has
ocused on capacity building, awareness-raising, and oversight o
ommunity patrols to saeguard local orests and orest resources.
Outreach and communication activities are primarily conducted
ia workshops, estivals and through extensions services to
ndividual communities. Awareness-raising has concentrated onhe importance o biodiversity and healthy ecosystems to human
wellbeing, the economic benets o sustainable natural resource
management, and the respective roles and objectives o theKoloharena. The association has been equally active in reorestation,
ocusing on eucalyptus trees outside conservation sites as a means
o osetting or supplementing community uel wood and timber
eeds.
ndigenous plants are also used or the enrichment o natural
orests. Community members participating in tree planting and
onservation activities are oten remunerated (i only modestly) or
heir eorts.
mprovements in agricultural productivity
As concerns the Adidy Maitso commitment to improving agricultural
productivity, the association uses agricultural extension ocers to
isseminate new technologies, training in animal husbandry, and
normation on more ecient production methods to local armers.
pecic interventions have included rice cultivation, crop protection
hedging), seed distribution and diversication, and organic ertilizer
se. Crop protection methods to ght parasitic plant diseases use
atural materials rather than chemical inputs. The association has
disseminated locally-evolved insect and pest management meth
tested by various Koloharena. One method involves the use o
artisanal soaps (savony gasy) and white citron, where another (
Ranomena) uses a liquid made rom zebu bone and sisal lea ext
Seed diversity is encouraged, as is the use o organic ertilize
act, Adidy Maitso promotes the combined use o compost, na
ertilizer, and clay to make seeds more resilient.
Livelihoods diversifcation
To promote alternative livelihoods and diversiy local source
income, Adidy Maitso is involved in identiying and linking
emerging markets and distribution channels or new products
association has also ocused on a number o key sectors to explocal income-generation opportunities, including small-
potato and bean processing businesses, chicken rearing, apicu
(beekeeping), sh arming, and pig and zebu rearing. An impo
and complementary aspect o this activity area is the promotio
diversied and o-season crops such as onions, bananas, soybe
cassava, corn, and white beans. This not only supplements
production, but also improves local ood security.
Awareness-raising and extension services
Adidy Maitso dedicates a good amount o resources and energ
outreach, both to disseminate inormation and to garner comm
participation. One early barrier to outreach encountered byassociation was the high rates o illiteracy amongst local arm
This challenge has been overcome through radio program
which broadcasts news and inormation on environme
conservation activities, sustainable livelihood opportun
resource management rules and regulations, and improved ar
techniques. A complementary communications tactic emplo
by the association has been the use o on-the-ground agricul
extension and outreach ocers; engineers who travel to local
to conduct trainings, workshops and on-site demonstration
environmentally responsible arming techniques.
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A training center (called Maison Koloharena) has been establishe
carry out capacity building activities and serves as a communicat
outpost or participating engineers. Engineers all into one o t
categories: arming acilitators, arming extension agents, and m
armers. The arming acilitators are responsible or outreach, m
courtesy calls at the request o community members, raise aware
on conservation issues and priorities, and disseminate impro
agriculture and animal husbandry techniques. Farming exten
agents also make courtesy calls, but their main responsibiliconducting demonstrations or arming communities throug
the corridor. The model armers have applied the new techniq
in their own elds, which are then used as demonstration site
best practice or the entire community. Model armers also mob
people rom the wider community to attend demonstrations, w
they then share their expertise, tried and tested methodolo
and achievements. To ensure a process o ongoing and respon
learning, each arming acilitator, extension agent, and model a
is responsible or producing one radio show each week.
In addition to the above activities, Adidy Maitso also help
members to identiy and secure micro-nance. As one exam
the association works with a network o rural micro-credit agen
known as Ombon-Tahiry Iampisamborana Vola to connect mem
amilies with nancing or o-season crop cultivation.
Innovative uses o communication technology
The Adidy Maitso Association takes pride in its innov
communication methods. The local radio and arming engi
programs have been crucial to the projects success. Initially
radio program consisted o a do-it-yoursel microphone that
a range o only 20 meters in one o the Koloharena. The pote
o this tool to disseminate inormation more widely was qu
appreciated and recognized. The association was able to work partners to obtain solar panels, a more powerul transmitter, o
urniture, and computers. Radio programming now reaches ar
across the entire corridor. The radio program oce now ha
inormation and communications centre which houses a librar
room, and the radio station equipment.
The arming engineer program was ultimately the outcome
trial and error process. Unsatised with the sustainability o
o training courses, the association worked with partners to
and position technicians in the roles o arming acilitators, arm
extension agents and model armers. This train-the-trainers appr
has thrived, and represents a model or high-impact and eec
environmental education and knowledge transer. The engineernancially compensated by the Adidy Maitso Association, and m
are oten provided by those communities receiving the training
Through the use o both radio programs and on-the-ground arm
engineers, the Adidy Maitso Association has eectively institut
spoke-and-wheel approach training and inorming local arme
environmental challenges and improved agricultural technique
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Impacts
BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS
ike all o the dense orests o eastern Madagascar, Didy is rich in
biodiversity. The area is home to several species o lemur, including
he iconic Prolemur simus, and is an important nesting site or the
Madagascar Ibis (Lophotibis cristata) and other endangered bird
pecies. Notable plant species include the Red Stinkwood (Pygeum
aricanum), the Dalbergia genus, and several species o orchid.
Adidy Maitso helps protect the ragile ecosystems o the Ankeniheny-
Zahamena Protected Area by supporting community management
units to responsibility and sustainably manage their natural
esources. Since the initiative began, rates o deorestation havebeen reduced, as have rates o poaching and hunting o threatened
pecies. (Previously, an estimated 10-20 tons per week o the
endangered rosewood tree were illegally being elled and removed
rom the orest.) The association has undertaken comprehensive
wareness-raising campaigns to educate the local population on
he importance o biodiversity and ecosystems services to human
wellbeing. These same campaigns have also sensitized the local
armers to the irreparable damage caused by unsustainable arming
echniques such as slash-and-burn agriculture. The latter was a
eading cause o orest res which would decimate sensitive habitats
nd result in the loss o rare and endangered fora and auna.
Community patrols report a reduction o orest res by 65 percent.
The association has also undertaken a concerted reorestation eortt a rate o 15 hectares o new orest per year. Ostensibly, the outcome
has been the realization o a green belt; a chain o communities
working to protect and reorest the Ankeniheny Zahamena Corridor.
The long-term objective o the association is to expand the corridor
by six times its current size.
The association has not only equipped local armers with
normation on existing environmental challenges and persistent
ocio-economic problems, but, through capacity building and
outreach, urnished them with the tools and knowledge needed to
respond. New and more ecient practices have been taught to
are increasingly adopted by) local armers who have subseque
improved their agricultural yields. Greater agricultural produc
and crop diversication have provided an incentive or local ar
to replace destructive practices with more sustainable meth
Adidy Maitsos conservation activities have had a positive, discer
impact on species numbers and ecosystem health, as obse
by the local community, local government (mayor and tradit
leaders), and local orest services. The association is currently in
process o developing an improved system o data collection b
on a combination o surveillance patrols and inormation rece
via instant message.
SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
The social objectives o the Adidy Maitso Association ar
improve the living conditions and overall well-being o the mem
communities and to promote social cohesion, which it aim
achieve through promoting the exchange o knowledge
expertise among member associations. Adidy Maitso uses a varie
tools to promote knowledge sharing, including site demonstrat
workshops, radio programs, and the arming engineer program
Improved livelihood options
Agricultural diversication and the adoption o impragricultural techniques have allowed the majority o amilie
improve their diets and livelihoods. The practice o intensive
growing has allowed households to double or even triple thei
yields (rom 0.8 1 tons per hectare to 5-6 tons per hectare). M
garden cultivation, generally practiced by the women, has brou
diversication o oodstus at the amily level and an increase in
nancial stability o each household as the surplus legumes g
are currently being sold in the local marketplace. Similarly with
cultivation o beans or the Toamasina market, the main provi
bazaar, market operators have signed a deal with an associa
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member community to purchase their entire crop production.
Heads o households are no longer attracted by jobs with orestry
businesses which merely pocket the lions share o benets or the
companies, and pay only a menial salary or the labor o employees.
Farmers practicing slash-and-burn agriculture are now abandoning
he method in avor o an improved rice-growing system which is
more easible and compatible with environmental concerns.
Empowerment o women
Didy is a municipality belonging to the district o Ambatondrazaka in
he e o the Sihanaka ethnic group. The Sihanaka cultural tradition
nvolves major decisions being taken by men while the women
occupy themselves with household tasks and the raising o children.
At the time the association was ormed, all members were men and
women were let out o debates and exchanges. This trend has since
been turned around, and association members are now o both
exes. At the level o oce management, women take on the roles o
ecretary, treasurer and counselor. In regards to the division o labor,
ice-growing and the production o compost to ertilize the soil are
all given to men while the gardening-related tasks all to the women.
This division o tasks makes an equal burden o responsibility oramily development. A patrol committee is constituted by men and
women and the sanctions given or inractions are applied without
distinction o sex, social class or status within the community.
Job creation and income generation
The association has observed a 25 percent increase in income among
ts target population, about hal o whom have beneted rom new
ncome-generating activities. Through the employment o arming
engineers and radio technicians, 48 new jobs have been created or
ocal people. Temporary allowances and benets have been shared
with over 80 community associations.
POLICY IMPACTS
As a cooperative ederation o associations, Adidy Maitso has been
able to leverage its size and infuence to impact various political
processes. Since Didy is included in the new protected area o
Ankeniheny-Zahamena, the association has participated in the local
consultations to drat a development plan. The association holds an
advisory role in the management o this new corridor. Adidy Maitso
was similarly consulted prior to implementation o the Development
Plan o the Aloaotra Mangoro Region.
The association also holds signicant sway at the municipal
where it is oten consulted or guidance regarding developm
and conservation planning. One example was a successul lobb
eort by the association in which they petitioned the mayor to
a decree conronting illegal mining and logging in the town
decree was adopted ollowing meetings with municipal autho
the technical service, the presidents o member communities,
the presidents o the Adidy Maitso Association.
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When forming strategic priorities, policy-makers should take environmental protection in
consideration, and acknowledge grassroots communities as the primary guardians and manage
of forest resources.
Andoniaina Rambeloson, Adidy Maitso Association
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Sustainability and Replication
SUSTAINABILITYhe Adidy Maitso Association contributes to environmental
ustainability through its role in integrating communities into the
management structure o the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Protected
Area. The association plans to develop the 12,000 hectares o plain
ands in Didy so communities have more arable land on which to
xpand agricultural production instead o encroaching on the natural
orest. This proposed venture will require a number o drainage and
rrigation projects. The association is currently building a canal or
his purpose, and is using unds exclusively gathered rom member
ontributions. This capacity to sel-nance community development
rojects at once refects a high degree o local ownership as well as austainability model to meet local demands and overcome identied
hallenges.
n act, the Adidy Maitso Association operates primarily on the
nnual contributions o its membersamounting to USD 2.50 per
month and USD 10 per yearas well as shares o the prots rom
he community enterprises and productive activities. The UNDP/
GEF-Small Grants Programm has also been an important source
nancial sustainability or specic development, reorestation,
nd income-generation projects. Additionally, members o the
ssociation regularly volunteer their time by holding undraisers.
While volunteer undraising has been successul to date, the
ssociation is drating a business plan to move beyond volunteerism.
he association has plans to expand its current training center; the
nticipated return on investment is high as the venue grows and
volves to become an essential conduit o community inormation
nd knowledge exchange. Fundamentally, the program component
hat ensures the long-term sustainability and ongoing relevance o
he association is the arming engineer program. On-the-ground
arming acilitators, extension agents, and model armers are selected
ased on comparative expertise and outreach capacity. All are locally
ecruited, as the method o bringing in outside trainers proved less
successul and ultimately unsustainable. Farming engineers req
compensation and on-going training, but the knowledge that
transer to neighbors has been invaluable and greatly strength
capacities in the region.
Through environmental education and awareness-ra
campaigns, the association has eectively instilled a conserva
ethic amongst the local population, which is essential or l
term sustainability. So too, community members are provided
up-to-date inormation on the laws that govern natural resou
Awareness and education have empowered community mem
to tackle emerging problems, encouraged reciprocal investmen
time and resources by community members, and, by turn, bolstthe associations social sustainability.
REPLICATION
Adidy Maitso Association is one o the rst cooperative associa
established in the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor. It
unequivocally played a leadership role in sharing and dissemina
environment, arming and development best practice with o
communities. Two cooperative associations modeled ater A
Maitso have been ormed in the Alaotra region. Throug
community management units, the association has prom
the sharing o knowledge and experiences. Exchange visits
communications campaigns have been the preerred mediumbest practice transer. Central also in this regard has been r
programming, which has allowed the association to reach
and more remote audiences o local armers. At the same
demonstration sites have been an important vehicle o replica
particularly in attracting new members to become involve
conservation and sustainable arming activities.
While Adidy Maitso believes knowledge sharing to be an esse
component o their various projects, they have encounter
number o obstacles along the way. For example, the association
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mes conronted with conficting interpretations and dierent levels
understanding among members when attempting to implement
new project. When aced with this problem, the initiative tries to
radually convince members to adopt a unied vision.
PARTNERS
onservation International has provided organizational, technical
nd nancial support. As one example o their contributions,onservation International lobbied or the establishment o the
nkeniheny-Zahamena Protected Area and helped to set up local
management units. They oer continued support not only in terms
biodiversity conservation but also in improving local livelihoods
y promoting income-generating activities through a small grants
rogram. The radio station was established in part by material
ssistance rom Conservation International.
RI (a program unded by USAID) were ounding partners to the
ssociation and pivotal in helping to establish the technician
rogram, the radio station, the training center, and the supply center.
he UNDP/GEF-Small Grants Programme (SGP) has provided unding
support which was directed towards communications, reoresta
and livelihood diversication activities. So too, SGP has linked
association with prospective carbon market schemes, suc
REDD+ which could provide long-term nancial sustainability.
The Ministry o the Environment and Forests provides monito
and evaluation, supervision, training, awareness-raising
communication support and have been an important so
o knowledge and training on orest laws and protected management.
The association also maintains close working relationships with
government authorities who oten provide support with monito
and evaluation, awareness-raising, communications, and acilita
The local government has been indispensible in terms o ra
awareness o environmental challenges and in providing s
stipends to radio station sta. In terms o launching the initia
local government authorities helped pave the way or associa
activities by adopting the decree which gave legal rights o
ownership to the communities. A number o non-governme
organizations provide support with technical training and in lin
the association with potential donors.
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