*3.2.1.5 Community-based factor*

One of the key partners in the success of the project was the great involvement of the local community in the entire process. Participatory landscape approach considered the active participation of rural communities in order to invigorate people-centered solutions in the community livelihoods. Tantoh et al. [21] stated that promotion of rural resources can only be successful if rural communities are integrated and engaged in the land husbandry interventions. It helped increasing ownership of beneficiaries, even after. Leaders of farmers received training for participatory community land use plan and map that was translated from English to Kinyarwanda local language.

The restoration of Gishwati area used this participatory approach through Labour Intensive Public Works namely as HIMO (*Haute Intensité de Main d'œuvre or High Intensive Labor)*. The latter consists of using people in respective to their social classes towards enforcement of local beneficiaries for job creation purpose and availing income-generating activities. Local leaders, opinion leaders, farmer promoters and other farmers' organizations located in the area as well as national institutions were actively involved in the whole process of planning, relocation of population from land degradation risk zones up to the implementation of sustainable landscape-related solutions (**Figure 5**).

#### **3.3 Result as success stories in sustainable landscape management**

The above discussed factors for determining optimal and appropriate landscape management approaches were combined. To this effect, the guidance relied on soil depth, soil types and slope gradient as well as climatic information. Besides, proper *Erosion Control Success Stories and Challenges in the Context of Sustainable Landscape… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.96267*

**Figure 5.**

*Community involvement in planning and implementation of land and water management. Source: GWLM project.*

community mobilization, and sensitization in the whole process of landscape restoration were critically important to the sustainable establish land husbandry interventions.
