Project preparation will be initiated by recruiting an international consultant to oversee and coordinate the process and finally consolidate information generated into a standard UNDP/GEF project proposal document. Thematic working groups (TWGs) will be constituted to undertake preparatory activities in 4 broad categories to include 1) range management and sustainable land management 2) marketing of livestock products 3) Legislation, policy and institutions 4) baselines. Terms of reference shall be developed for each TWG and shared with the responsible institutions such as environment, range and forestry, North-West/Okavango/Ngamiland district management, respectively for each theme. These TWGs shall participate in project development workshops, do most of the data collection and information gaps analysis regarding the existing legal/policy environment around the livestock grazing lands and marketing as well as increase awareness through the consultations with other project partners to ensure ownership of project results. Among other things, outputs of the thematic teams will lay foundation for the Ngamiland livestock marketing strategy, bush control program and the project strategy as well as for the recommendations for the amendment of the tribal grazing land policy. The PPG participants will also form the core of the national platform for facilitating debate on rangeland management, markets and bush control issues (which is an output of the project