*Erosion Control Success Stories and Challenges in the Context of Sustainable Landscape… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.96267*

size, erosion, climate, and acidity), structural, and institutional contexts. The success stories resulted from planned land use, served in solving land related issues. High value indigenous tree species have been re-introduced in the area for the purposes of rehabilitating the ecosystem of Gishwati and developed lands have been effectively redistributed to beneficiaries. To sustain the established land husbandry works required a process of building capacity of people for increasing ownership and commitment of land beneficiaries. It comes into practice through HIMO approach through community sensitization, exploring social relations, monitoring of implemented works, and protecting grazing lands in restricted high risk zones. HIMO approach also created employment to more beneficiaries.
