Alliance of Knowledge and Action for Sustainable Livelihoods Management (AKAM) is a non-government, non-political and not-for-profit organisation. It envisions to seeing people with full dignity living in a state of peace and harmony with themselves and their nature. AKAM's main focus is the establishment of a knowledge and action-learning alliance with and among different actors to bring about sustainable livelihood changes at the individual, groups, community and regional levels... AKAM's operations are guided by the following values: participation, accountability for results, action-learning, integrated approaches, genuine need and justice, improving the environment, meaningful partnership, and transparency... The project resulted in the institutional strengthening of 50 self-help groups (SHGs) composed of 984 members (50% women). AKAM has developed their capacity to mobilise resources for saving and credit schemes, group business activities and implementation of community-..