The project is working on providing alternative livelihoods for former Borana pastoralist, who have settled down to try agro-pastoralist production as a means to food security. In a first step, households joined hands to harvest rain water by creating a small pan near their homesteads and use this for a small home garden. Although creating a pan takes a bit of time, when people joined hands, they were able to work on a single pan for relatively shorter time. In the gardens vegetables like kale, onions, pepper, cassava, tomatoes, spinach, watermelon are grown. Some farmers are also piloting a small agroforestry in one corner of their garden. The food produced is used for home consumption and surplus is sold to the neighbouring villages.These pans and gardens are done for one household at a time but the long term goal is to reach every household in the community. Thus, this marks a departure from overreliance on pure pastoralism, which is negatively affected by climate change.