"This Facilitators Guide describes Namati?s approach to community land protection in detail. Each chapter suggests various strategies and practices that facilitators can use as they support communities to protect their land claims. it is accompanied by short animated videos that demonstrate the community land protection process visually, available at http://namati.org/ourwork/communityland. this Guide is intended for the directors and staff of local, community-based organizations, national civil society organizations, faith-based organizations, government actors, and other community land protection advocates and activists. the Guide refers to these groups as ?facilitating organizations,” and their field staff as ?facilitators.” We recommend reading the entire Guide at least once before beginning community land protection efforts. Facilitators can then review specific sections of the Guide as they support communities to move through the process. However, because all the activities within each ?step” are inter-related, it is best to be familiar with all the land protection activities before beginning facilitation. to support the adaptation and re-ordering of community land protection activities, this Guide has been designed to be printed as a binder so that facilitators can easily move chapters around, or replace chapters with more updated versions that reflect emerging learnings and strategies. to access the most recent versions of the Guide and connect with Namati, visit namati.org/communityland.