People’s participation, empowerment of local people and women

People participation approach as a basic need approach as an alternative of top down approach. It is consider as the central issue in the development process. It means that people are closely involved in the economic, social and many others development process. It is one of the major strengthening mechanism to natural resources use, conserve and many other parts of its development. It is equally important to strengthening the mechanism to natural resources is the empowerment of the local people and the women. 

Empowerment refers to increasing the commercial, party-political, societal, informative, gender, strength of individual and communities. Empowerment of these groups one taking place in different sector and different form. It is merely concern to the natural resource conservation and development.