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 |