Mitigating human-elephant conflict often involves understanding and addressing the concerns of local communities who live alongside elephants. Here’s a strategy you could consider:

1. Listen to the People Principle

   Community Engagement: Involve local communities in decision-making processes. Understand their concerns, livelihood needs, and challenges related to elephants.

   Education and Awareness: Educate communities about elephant behavior, habitats, and the importance of conservation. Raise awareness about conflict mitigation strategies.

   Compensation and Support: Provide compensation for crop damage or loss caused by elephants. Support alternative livelihoods that are less susceptible to elephant impacts.

2. Key Strategies to Follow:

   Early Warning Systems: Develop and implement systems that alert communities about elephant movements. This can include using technology like mobile apps, SMS alerts, or traditional methods such as watchtowers.

   Physical Barriers: Construct and maintain physical barriers like fences or trenches to deter elephants from entering farmland or settlements.

   Land Use Planning: Encourage land-use planning that considers elephant corridors and habitats, minimizing conflict zones.

   Conservation Measures: Support conservation efforts that protect elephant habitats and ensure sustainable coexistence with human activities.

   Research and Monitoring: Conduct research to understand elephant behavior and movements, which can inform better mitigation strategies.

By focusing on listening to local communities and integrating their perspectives into conservation strategies, you can foster sustainable solutions that reduce human-elephant conflict while promoting coexistence

To add to what Agriphina said, I think community engagement is the top-tier key, and engaging them effectively means first understanding the community you are working with i.e. their problems, needs, livelihoods, and their foreseen solutions. You can also engage the community through meetings and workshops. Mfano: Unaweza kuwashirikisha kwenye utengenezaji wa zile local tools kama chill blocks, just to make them have the feeling of benefit and improve that myth of fighting "alone". 

You can also allow them to have their representatives, (leaders who will speak on their behalf), also, do your best to give back feedback and information to the community members, (do not only take information from them).

Side note: Working with communities may be different, one strategy may work for one community and the same strategy may not work for yours, it's important to understand your community and flow with what suits it while you engage them in what you think is helpful to them. 

To add to what Agriphina said, I think community engagement is the top-tier key, and engaging them effectively means first understanding the community you are working with i.e. their problems, needs, livelihoods, and their foreseen solutions. You can also engage the community through meetings and workshops. Mfano: Unaweza kuwashirikisha kwenye utengenezaji wa zile local tools kama chill blocks, just to make them have the feeling of benefit and improve that myth of fighting "alone". 

You can also allow them to have their representatives, (leaders who will speak on their behalf), also, do your best to give back feedback and information to the community members, (do not only take information from them).

Side note: Working with communities may be different, one strategy may work for one community and the same strategy may not work for yours, it's important to understand your community and flow with what suits it while you engage them in what you think is helpful to them.