Livelihood source | Gender involved in the production | Challenges faced | Means of enhancing livelihood |
Basketry | Women, Old Men and Old Women | · Difficulty in obtaining raw material, poor market and exploitation by middlemen · Inaccessibility of villages by buyers and poor road network | · Establish a trial plot for growing trees that produce basket making raw materials · Source for a reliable market |
Beekeeping | Men and Women | · Theft of hives and honey, · Inadequate skills on beekeeping and use of traditional methods · Transport cost to the market and poor prices · Long drought spell hindering flowering of plants · Lack of modern beekeeping equipment and adequate protective harvesting gear | · Provide farmers with harvesting equipment, training on modern beekeeping technologies, especially women and provide more beehives · Provision of water · Construction of an apiary · Prevent forest fires · Promote afforestation programmes |
Bodaboda (Motorbike transport business) | Boys and Men | · Activity is halted during the rainy season · Too many motorbikes leading to a few customers and low income · Operators lack licenses · Lack of a fuelling Centre and spare parts in the village · Poor road network · The high cost of fuel | · Improve road network · Train riders, issue them with licenses, organize them into riders cooperative societies · Riders to be · Create more income-generating activities · Government to regulate fuel prices |
BGOKers (middlemen) | Girls, Boys, Men, Women and Old Men. | · School drop out · Drug abuse · Early marriage · Laziness and ignorance | · Provide skills · Create awareness |
Business | Girls, Boys, Men and Women | · School drop out · Drug abuse · Early marriage · Laziness and ignorance · Low business · Less money in the village · Poor and expensive transport means · Wild animals prevent easy access to forest products | · Impact modern business skills, especially to youth to engage in business and gainful employment · Provide capital and skills |
Cash transfers | Children, Old men and Old Women | · Irregular and delayed remittance · Few beneficiaries · Expensive to access due to long distances to the market centre | · Take children to school to get a good paying job · Create local employment opportunities · Monitor to ensure government cash transfers reach recipients · Have more beneficiaries |
Casual labour | Girls, Boys, Men, Women and Old Men | · Lack of skills, low wages and poor working conditions · Less farm work due to drought · Lack of employment opportunities · Poor working conditions and lack of insurance covers · Child labour and defilement · Overworking · Unwanted pregnancies | · Increase wages · Establish small industries to create more employment · Build a polytechnic to improve skills · value addition I · Provide capital |
Charcoal burning | Boys, Men and Women | · Inadequate skills in charcoal burning, poor technology, poor markets and prices · Government regulations and police harassment · Unavailability of medical facilities in case of injury · Deforestation and destruction of animal habitat · Risk of burns and health complications | · Community sensitization on environment conservation · Training on appropriate charcoal production technologies and produce charcoal sustainably · Organize community into Charcoal Producer Associations (CPAs) · Advocate for improved prices and designate market points · Undertake re-afforestation |