A socioeconomic baseline survey of the target communities with a large emphasis on the commercialisation of wildlife products and other NTFPs;

The analysis of constraints in the sustainable management of each target product;

Analysis of the value change after identifying opportunities for increasing the revenues and added value in order to increase the income of the actors on the level of communities;

The identification and development of self-financing systems of community management of wildlife and other natural resources and the equitable distribution of costs and benefits of natural resource management;

The development of business plans for entrepreneurs and training in the field.

Support for the first technical workshop. (i) Preparation of the workshop; (ii) Facilitation of technical sessions; (iii) An implementation strategy for support missions in 2014.

Support and advisory missions in between the two workshops. (i) Preparation of the missions with the four NTAs; (ii) Implementation of missions to the field for each pilot site; (iii) Building of local capacity based on requests by the four NTAs

c. Support for and to the second workshop of synthesis organised by the Project: (i) Critical analysis of reports, documents and other sources of information produced by the Project concerning the methodologies, tools and lessons learned regarding the development of value chains; (ii) Presentation of achieved results, and discussion and validation during the workshop; (iii) Support for scheduling the actions to take for the next phase of the Project; (iv) Drafting of a final synthesis report with a critical analysis of the methodologies and achieved results.