1) Stakeholder participation in the planning and implementation of projects is time consuming but is important in ensure project sustainability 2) Projects involving cultivation of indigenous trees require long period of implementation for full results to be realized. 3) Biodiversity conservation projects need to have a production component which provides immediate benefits to participating communities so that communities are motivated to continue participating in such programs. 4) Some plants studied have potential global benefits since they wee found to have potential for treating AIDS related opportunistic infections. But more time and resources are required to support further studies to establish their full potential and effectiveness. 5) Constant project monitoring, provision of technical backstopping and community mobilization by extension workers are required to ensure successful implementation of projects. This is particularly so in biodiversity conservation projects whose benefits in most cases are in the distant future. 6) Marketing of medicinal plants products are difficult in rural areas. Communities seem to prefer sourcing of medicinal plants products from their family practitioners and getting them direct from the forests 7) An appropriate political and economic environment is necessary for the for the successful implementation of the projects. Implementing partners in the NGO sector failed to implement their planned activities as they were note allowed to visit rural communities for political reasons. On the economic front purchases of materials required for project implementation could not be effected due to the high inflation which resulted in daily price changes making quotations sourced meaningless. During the final year of the project all payments had to be suspended during the fourth quarter as the UNDP payment system failed to accommodate the zeros resulting from the depreciation of the Zimbabwean dollar