COMMUNITY-BASED INTEGRATED WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT AND LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES FOR SIX VULNERABLE AND HIGH FIRE PRONE COMMUNITIES IN THE AFRAM PLAINS
COMMUNITY-BASED INTEGRATED WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT AND LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES FOR SIX VULNERABLE AND HIGH FIRE PRONE COMMUNITIES IN THE AFRAM PLAINS
The wildfires pose challenges for the sustainable management of the resource, as there has been a tremendous increase in the number and severity of wildfires in the district recently. The use of fire for land clearing for farming and uncontrolled late annual wildfires encourage tufts of grass for cattle grazing and control of weeds prior to food crop establishment. Other causes of wildfires attributed to human activities include the reckless use of fire by farmers, hunters, smokers, fishermen, honey and palm wine tappers and local gin ?Akpeteshie? brewers.

Uncontrolled wild fire is listed to be a major ause of the degradation and loss of the vegetation in the area, contributing to chronic poverty with which the district is associated. Some of the adverse effects wildfires have caused are that the fertility of the soils is greatly affected causing poor crop yields that do not sustain families through the long dry season. Trees, medicines, and energy support systems are terminated, while the habitat that the savannah resource has always provided for other life forms such as animals and plants is also destroyed. Also, the loss of forest cover has serious effect on the local hydrology

The project, aimed to improve the livelihood and well-being of the communities through the reversal of environmental degradation, will place heavy emphasis on education and the promotion of a community-led wildfire management approach based on the formation of small informal groups in the communities. The involvement of local people, including the chief and women, in fire protection is very important and in fact a pre-requisite for success. They will carry out the actual implementation of project activities.
 
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Project Snapshot

Grantee:
ATIDEV INITIATIVES
Country:
Ghana
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation
Grant Amount:
US$ 22,650.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 42,830.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 12,000.00
Project Number:
GHA/OP3/Y2/06/105
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed

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Project Characteristics and Results
Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment
A general awareness will be created among the people on the consequences of wildfire on the environment and people?s properties. But even more importantly, a sustained environmental education programme will be mounted all year round to cover the schools in the areas as well.
Inovative Financial Mechanisms
Appropriate incentive packages of the people?s choice such as protective gears, basic elementary tools, awards for effective fire prevention, field trips, etc. will be explored and supported. To make this exercise sustainable, the District Assembly will be fully involved and would be prevailed upon to create a Wildfire Management Fund from its budgetary allocations to support such incentives and for the provision of adequate and appropriate logistics.
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Indicators
Biophysical
Number of globally significant species protected by project 5
Biophysical
Hectares of globally significant biodiversity area protected or sustainably managed by project 200
Biophysical
Number of innovations or new technologies developed/applied 3
Biophysical
Number of local policies informed in biodiversity focal area 1
Biophysical
Tonnes of CO2 decreased or avoided by energy efficient and renewable energy technologies or applying environmentally sustainable transport practices introduced by SGP Project 2500
Biophysical
Number of innovations or new technologies developed / applied 2
Biophysical
Number of local policies informed in climate change focal area 2
Biophysical
Number of national policies informed in climate change focal area 1
Empowerment
Number of indigenous people participated/involved in SGP project 100
Biophysical
Hectares of degraded land rest 2000
Biophysical
Hectares of land sustainably managed by project 250
Livehood
Total monetary value (US dollars) of ecosystem goods sustainably produced and providing benefit to project participants and/or community as a whole (in the biodiversity, international waters, and land degradation focal areas as appropriate) 15000

SGP Country office contact

Dr. George Buabin Ortsin
Phone:
233-242-977980
Email:
Ms. Lois Sarpong
Phone:
+233 505740909
Email:

Address

UNDP, Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme P.O. Box 1423
Accra, Greater Accra, 233-302