Centre for Integrated Community Development (CICOD) has launched the ‘People and Nature’ project in Malawi.

Development Diaries gathered that the goat-pass-on project is targeting over 2,750 households in four traditional authorities around Kasungu National Park.

Programme Manager at the organisation, Edward Thole, said that the main aim of the EU-funded project was to make the communities self-reliant.

‘This project is going to help the people living around the park with resources which will promote their livelihood so that they must stop encroaching and poaching in the protected area’, he said.

‘The People and Nature project is also packaging a number of development projects which will be carried out apart from the goat-pass-on programme’.

Thole added that every group village head involved in the project would be equipped with solar-powered water pumps to address the challenge of water scarcity in the area.

Parks and wildlife officer responsible for environmental education, Matias Elisa, said that he was confident that the project would economically empower the communities.

‘We are very happy with the project and the goat-pass-on project because we are sure that the communities will cause less harm to the park as they will have been economically empowered’.

Source: Malawi News Agency 

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