To ensure sustainability and make sure that benefits are available to all members of the communities they serve, Tandana often helps villages create project management committees.  These committees report to the general assembly of the village and meet independently to make decisions about the project.  Each member of the committee fulfills specific roles and functions important to the project's success.  Tandana provides training in how to execute these roles and also on the responsibilities of the committee for overseeing work and reporting back to the village as a whole.  We encourage all villagers to keep up on progress and ask committee members for status reports to ensure accountability.  Committees decide on specific rules and practices for making sure the projects are sustained well.  The grain bank committee, for example, includes a president, secretary, treasurer, salespeople, and an elder overseer.  On the cotton bank committee, in addition to the usual offices there is a secretary for conflict resolution, and all members are women except for one man who is charged with explaining the committee's needs to the men of the village.  The tool committee cares for communal tools and rents them out for individual use. With committees taking responsibility for them and the village as a whole overseeing committee work, the projects grow over time, improve, and continue to provide benefits into the future.  Committee members also learn useful skills that will help them take on new initiatives in the future and gain the self-confidence they need to handle new kinds of village affairs on their own.