Sustainable Livelihoods
Conservation should create stronger local capability and economic opportunity. MDF links approved community projects with productive assets, capacity building, benefit sharing and accountable reporting.
CBO and VICOBA pathways
Strengthen governance, financial readiness, enterprise management and progressive access to appropriate project funding.
Income compatible with stewardship
Potential pathways include beekeeping and honey, seaweed, eco-tourism, edu-tourism, agroforestry, community nurseries, aquaculture and other approved local enterprises.
From production to income
Community products and services can be prepared for appropriate market channels while MDF programme funding and MGIH commercial activity remain institutionally distinct.
Make value visible
Approved benefit-sharing plans can connect project funding, productive assets, production, revenue and community validation.
Funding should strengthen local ownership, not replace it.
MDF’s intended model connects community-defined needs, approved project design, responsible local participation, controlled funding, measurable KPIs, evidence, reporting and appropriate verification. Donors and impact-focused partners support the pathway; communities remain central to the outcome.
Local impact grows through long-term relationships.
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