An institutional support is required for the beneficiaries to promote the products they make through this solution, in local, regional and national markets. Since a single farmer cannot meet the quantity demand of the market and the distributors look for bulk quantity, a functioning co-operative has to be formed at the local level. This cooperation serves the purpose of collecting the products, negotiating the price with the distributor, supervising the manufacturing and distributing the profits. 

Various alliances had to be build to ensure the success of the programme. Collaboration was necessarry between the following stakeholders: 

• Local and provincial government and administrative authorities
• Social groups like youth clubs, women groups, agriculture committees
• Forest and land protection committes 
• Local, regional and national private sector businesses 
• Various experts, researchers and scholars in this sector

The communities living in thes project landscapes are directly involved in all phases of this project: household selection, area(s) selection, plantation and supervision of all activities. The project promotes active participation and involvement in decision-making processes.

Community forestry in Nepal has brought a number of benefits including an increase in income. It has helped to fight against illegal logging by putting clear rules in place on timber access and a strong system of forest monitoring. Community livelihoods have also improved with easier access to firewood and fodder and better health care and energy access, for example through money from ecotourism and subsidies for renewable energy.

Conservation oriented community forestry is essentially a participatory process that requires strong technical assistance on both policy and implementation. Expanding the property rights of local communities over resources and empowering them with knowledge, information, resources, technologies, and required skills for forest management and institution building are basic building blocks for the community forestry. Gender and equity concerns are addressed from the program design so that the poor, women, and marginalized receive fair benefits from the program.

The collective savings made by the Batwa were used to buy 3 ha of property. The community itself negotiated the cost of this property. It was the community that organized itself to share the land equally. It was the community itself that committed to making bricks for their homes. The partners came to the aid of their commitment by granting them sheet metal and cement. In this way, their situation is closely linked to the effective protection of the Bururi Forest Nature Reserve.

In 2017, 28 Batwa households (indigenous peoples of Burundi) were involved in activities to maintain 33 km of boundary and 15 km of internal tracks, open 2 km of tourist trails, fight bush fires and poaching.

Only govermentally approved people are allowed to conduct these activities, however we do involved non-approved divers and non divers to assist in Coral restoration to help with maintenance work that does not involve collection or transplantation of any coral fragments (like cleaning coral tags etc)

Coral fragments are collected around the reef edge. These "corals of opportunity" are broken fragments that will enventually die if we do not collect them. Once collected, they are transplanted to artificial structures to help increase the coral diversity and population.

Some corals are adopted as part of our Adopt A Coral Program.The adopted coral is transplanted and named, then monitored, photographed and measured every 3 months. The data is published online and is freely available for research into coral growth. This program also helps provide data into coral growth and health states.

 

Some of our programs involve coral transplantation. In Thailand it is illegal to touch or damage coral, so we had to seek approval for some of our programs.

To receive approval from the government involves first submitted a proposal for a coral reef restoration zone. Including with this proposal are the techniques for transplantation, the people involved and their experience and qualifications, and a long term plan for monitoring and maintenance.

The DMCR has fully approved our restoration related activities and we conduct transplant research and provide them with that data.

Through our community events and actions, locals and tourists can be better educated about how to reduce their impact on their local environment.

Using social media and outreach efforts, we have improved the stakeholders understanding of the need to look after their environment in the long term, as their economy lies so heavily on it.