Purpose

• To offer opportunities as well as support for individuals and groups to remove themselves from their immediate environment and reflect upon and communicate their experience and ideas.
• To enhance and enrich understanding of innovative approaches to sustainable resource management and broaden options for local communities.
• To support efforts to increase understanding, development and implementation of appropriate methods for conflict management and mediation, with a focus on conflict over access to and management of natural resources.
• To facilitate individual, inter-group and community learning and skills sharing.
• To provide small grants for community members, groups, their partners and support organizations to implement key activities related to these purposes.