Participatory Land Use Planning and Assessment is an inter disciplinary approach to the land use with combination of the modern tools and community knowledge to identify land degradations with its intensity and trends and through this approach design intervention directed toward land degradation prevention. This approach also compiles different tools including PRA and soil assessment and LADA techniques in a participatory manner. The approach address issues with all categories of land use including crop and pasture land, forest and even settlement with regards to natural disaster consideration for construction.
Community mobilization for soil and water conservation work in a watershed planning unit is an approach for collective action by organizing all active labor forces living in the kebele/peasant association into development group of 20-30 members and further divide into 1:5 work force to implement construction of soil and water conservation measures, and implementing improved crop production technologies.