Communiy Involvement in Sustainable Agro-Ecosystem Management and Utilization of Natural Resources in the Lake Victoria Basin in Kagera Region (TAN/NBI-NTEAP/05/09)

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Project Details & Results

The project main objective is to impart adoptability of the appropriate land management practices on environmental conservation initiatives along wetlands and other water sources. The project will cover ten villages in Mubela and Bukoba districts where wetlands and the Ngono river will be targeted. The project will introduce and promote upland rice farming to check poverty and food security. It will also restore and rehabilitate degraded wetlands, introduce afforestation programs, conserve water sources and improve aquantic life. Currently, the project main focus area is threatened by a number of factors including, intensive overexploitation of forest resources, land degradation, inappropriate farming methods, farming along the river banks and the uncontrolled bush fires.

Notable Community Participation
1. The community will be involved throughout the project cycle from planning, implementation , monitoring and evaluation.

Capacity - Building Component
1.The project will build the capacities of the beneficiaries through training of trainers (TOT) ,facilitated internal farmers to farmers studt visits and training to famers on land use management.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
1. The project focuses on sustainable livelihood as improved agricultural practices are likely to increase harvests of both food and cash crops. These will contribute to the increased income upon selling the surpluses.

Gender Focus
1. Women workload will be reduced through construction of rainwater harvesting tanks.
2. Construction and use of energy saving woodstoves will also reduce women workload of searching for wood fuel, they will further contribute to reduction of indoor pollution they usually encounter upon using local stoves.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples
1. All community members will participate in the project.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment
1. The project will raise public awareness on sustainable land management, improved agriculture, land degradation prevention. It will also deal with wetlands conservation. These are of global significance.

Policy Impact
N/A

Inovative Financial Mechanisms
Improving food security of the community is an innovative investment because the produced rive will be used as food as well as cash crop for income generation.

Project Results
(1) Increased community awareness towards environmental conservation
(2) Increased land productivity
(3) Improved food security through production of up-land rice
(4) Reduced non-point source pollution from agro-chemicals
(5) Increased wetlands conservation initiatives
(6) Reduced workload for women
(7) Improed integrated Pests Management approaches in agriculture.