Handing Over and Business Plan Development Guideline for Project Financed Nurseries

Abstract

The main purpose of this guideline is to handover central nurseries strategically to the community through carefully planned business model to sustain the role of nurseries by serving as an alternative livelihood source while contributing to landscape restoration and greening initiatives of government and development partners by supplying appropriate quantity and quality of seedlings. Specifically to;  Sustain the role of central nurseries with their full capacity and production potentials  Scale up (handover) project level seedlings production experiences to community  Develop a lesson that nurseries also support livelihood diversification with appropriate business planning model under project related budget constraints for sustainability  Handover nurseries for broad impact after existing project and budget sources ended