S/N

Benefits

Description

Percentage

1

Employment

Tour guides, community security, head potters, bike riders, sales girls, book keepers, nursery workers.

34

2

Businesses

Souvenir shops, accommodation, Restaurants, mobile phone shops.

31

3

Infrastructure

Improved energy supply, waste management facilities, improved communication (every household has at least two members with a mobile phone), accessibility to and affordability of portable water, guest-houses, women’s empowerment centers.

11

4

Entertainment centers

Town halls, traditional dances against payments, clubs.

9

5

Financial institutions

Micro finances, cooperatives (honey, paper, handicraft, food), “Acawoh” daily and weekly contributions from small traders. These facilitate transactions.

7

6

others

-Capacity and skill building for youths in: documentation, monitoring and evaluation techniques /research, exchange visit, developing marketing network to eliminate middlemen exploitation, reduced travel cost for tourists.

-Regeneration of forest: disappearance of footpaths, habitat rehabilitation, forests become darker with much canopy; more animal and bird life; greater control of natural Resources by communities (influence on decision making). Increase in biomass which led to increased soil fertility and stability.

-Socio-cultural benefits: maintenance of cultural heritage, preservation of spiritual values, beliefs and customary rituals (habitat of totems), increase in animal life (indigenous conservation strategy), increased intake of traditional diets and recipes.

8