**3.1 Socio-economic characteristics of the communities**

Socio-economic characteristics are presented in **Table 1** below. Results indicate that, on average, males were 83.7% of the respondents. This could have happened by chance. In terms of age, 54.3% were adults aged between 40 and 55 years old and 19.6% were youths aged between 24 and 39 years. Others (26.1%) were elders aged more than 55 years old. The age groups mean that the majority were economically active. In terms of education, more than 76.2% had primary education, implying that the illiteracy level was still high. Regarding household size, 51.2% had more than 4 people, 42.3% comprised of 3–4 people and 6.5% had 1–2 people. Findings further indicate that area is dominated by Gogo ethnic group and the majority (74%) practice both agriculture and livestock production. Only 26% depend solely on agriculture for a living.
