Population, Health and Environment (PHE) Ethiopia Consortium, together with its implementing partners, supported the establishment of three new community based participatory natural resources/rangeland management groups (NRMGs) in Haydagi kebele of Amibara woreda (Afar), and Dudube kebele of Awash woreda and Fayo kebele of Meiso woreda (Oromia).

The natural resources groups have managed to set their bylaws, finalize legal issues, prepare the necessary documentation and develop their small business plan. A series of discussions took place on the nature of their formalization in connection with legal issues such as institutional format and their core purpose of establishment. 

Most of the members of the group are part of the platform at the kebele level and participated in awareness raising of environmental protection, natural resource management through a human rights approach, social accountability, harmful traditional practice and reproductive health.