These Guidelines are the result of work from early 2004 by over 30 partners in Uganda, Lesotho, South Africa and Kenya, working in the HIV and natural resource. It purpose is to assist practitioners and implementing partners to run CBW systems more effectively, maximizing impacts for clients of the service, empowering communities, empowering the CBWs themselves, and assisting governments to ensure that services are provided at scale to enhance livelihoods. The guidelines focus on how to run the CBW system rather than technicalities around HIV/AIDS or natural resources issues.