This building block concerns bring tangible benefits of the project to direct beneficiaries. The household basic needs like energy saving stoves, rain water harvesting gadgets and protected springs were meant to reduce access and amount of pressure to the wetland and its resources. The alternative income generating items like fish cages and fish ponds, bee-hives were meant to support individuals, households, groups or associations to enhance their economic livelihoods, so as to shift from wetland resource extraction for commercial purposes to extraction for domestic use only.

This involved a process of identifying/selecting direct beneficiaries, in the form of individuals, households, groups or associations which was done with the help of local council leaders, and attendance lists of members attending several sensitization and education workshops. Local council leaders were helpful mostly in identifying the vulnerable or marginalized households like the handicapped, elderly, poor youth and women.