Working with communities facing the triple challenge of poverty, limited and declining common pool resources and rising tensions between competing users, POP-BF project objectives are to:

1. Improve local stakeholder knowledge and understanding of environmental limits to community reservoir water supply under current and future use and management scenarios;

2. Encourage, facilitate, and test the effect of inclusive and informed decision-making on individual and societal interests in reservoir management and benefit distribution;

3. Co-develop community-driven innovations and solutions to resolve common pool resource management challenges and unequal benefit distribution among individuals, households and communities;

4. Establish a locally owned low-cost, reliable system for monitoring the impacts of innovations on ecosystems and human well-being.