Given the newly appeared challenges that faced the MECO-ECOTRA networks. A strategy for improving the approach of MECO-ECOTRA in response to these challenges and the needs that have been raised from the farmers themselves has been identified. The five networks of MECO-ECOTRA for the period from 2006-2009 were adapted and transformed into the following three themes:
 
1) Community Institution in Watershed Resources Management; This is an overarching theme, appropriate community management of the forest can nurture traditional society as a whole and reaffirm its core values and provide necessities for daily life and practice of customary law.
 
2) Eco-farming; this theme represents a synthesis of the herbal, organic farming and handicraft networks. The skills and knowledge in each of these networks interrelates and members of each network can benefit greatly through interacting with each other under the umbrella of one theme.
 
3) Community based Eco-Enterprise; Ecological trading was an original over arching theme of all networks. The new structure makes the theme clear with greater potentials for explicit Institutional development regarding it.
 
There is a strong interconnection between each theme. The choice of these three themes is based on the understanding that each can holistically support the other based on natural relationships that exist in traditional society. This structure really builds upon traditional forms of organization that are inherent in these communities and allows for the interconnected management of issues within each theme. Through this method of using themes to create community institution we can really support the development of civil society and democratic practices. The three themes are a foundation to guide SPERI’s changing organizational structure to adapt to the farmers’ self-development context. All themes will be used for teaching and training indigenous youth at the FFSs.