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Sustainable Use of Bamboo

The project is expected to improve livelihood of highland farmers in the propose location through promoting bamboo handicraft through market oriented products development while protecting and using bamboo in sustainable maner as well as protect the waterhead forest for the down stream villages. I have called to project proponent, the agency is working out in identifying appropriate proponent and revision of project objectives, expected results and activities.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Ta Ouy Lao Font for National Construction

Country:

Lao

Area Of Work:

Multifocal Area

Operational Phase:

OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)

Grant Amount:

US$ 35,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 3,750.00

Project Number:

LAO/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2010/20

Start Date:

12/2010

End Date:

12/2012

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

Laotheung ethnic in Lao PDR have basic skill for bamboo weaving, the raining is very important to encourage their labor skill what contribute market where pushing their activity sustainable. The training for gender equality encourage ethnic people mainly men to participate the activities to develop their living in family.

Gender Focus

Local women participate the project nearly 50 % village women unions share members to be trainers for continue training to villagers. This project encourage gender equality by support men active to care family by through the handicraft activity what can earn income for family .

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The bamboo forest of the protective area 18.133 will be known the outsider by the project meeting and the information about the project would spread through by the marketing of bamboo handicraft activity

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The bamboo handicraft is native skill especially Laothueng minority ethnic in , in the past they wove material to apply for their living by bamboo particularly , material using in home, fishery material , handicraft equipment and agriculture tools.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The expenditure of the project was provided to the conservation the bamboo forest and support labor skill for through bamboo handicraft.

Notable Community Participation

The project support local community participates to project by encourage them to meeting , training , selection to project committee, and trainer. This project, even local people is minority ethnic but people lively to share the project in the process of activities.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

This project encourage local people has applied bamboo from the forest is utilize for applying natural resource and encourage income generation as well as establishment skill labor. Bamboo handicraft activity can be combining to poverty reduction.

Project Results

This get area of the project is Laothueng ethnic in the remote area of the south in the country, due to the communication of the project between local people and project team trouble some time need interpreter, even target area is minority ethnic group but they are interesting participate to the project. Bamboo handicraft make people knowledge applying bamboo for their economic utilize.
Activity completed: training business plan village level, trained volunteer village level, survey forest in the target villages, trained gender, drafted regulation with villagers, planed to use the land, bamboo forest.In 10 villages could product rice boxes over 30,643 boxes. Difficulty to carry out the project is road, the villages are distant, no enough the vehicles. Project could survey forest area 18.133 hectares, trained volunteer in 10 villages, trained gender 7 villages, drafted regulation group 10 villages.

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Number of globally significant species protected by project 80

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