Influence of Participatory Project Initiation on Sustainable Forest Management in Saboti, Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya

Table 2

Sustainable forest management.

	Mean	Std. dev
Access to forest resources is fair	3.78	1.17
Local people feel secure	3.91	1.12
Mechanisms for sharing benefits	3.80	1.28
People receive employment	3.80	1.31
Wages conform to national standards	3.96	1.13
Balance people with forest resources	4.00	1.13
Children are educated on natural resource	4.01	1.05
Destruction of forest is rare	4.11	1.02
People uphold spiritual links with the forest	4.15	0.93
Ecologically sensitive areas are protected	4.35	0.72
Sites of ecological importance are protected	4.25	0.86
Erosion and other forms of soil degradation are minimized	4.30	0.91
There is quality supply of water	3.89	1.34
Mean	4.02	0.79