Every project before implemented the project stress on community and local government officers participation all project have agreement from them before started program.
Project organized meeting two times to make plan implementing following project strategy The project attempt help people to reduce shifting cultivation and saving the natural resource
Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment
Protective forest area of 166.4 ha are spread to outsider through several meeting and was awareness by all local
Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
The activities of raising is main activity to get income it can improve local people livelihood
Community development fund villagers is also important to component and link to other activities to help running activity to be utilize and sustainable particularly livestock raising
Capacity - Building Component
The project organized training on technique of livestock raising at the Houyxone-Houyxoua technical of agriculture service center, Training is base important for start activities to reduce the risk of pigs and duck dead.
Project has trained on administration development management fund and accounting to villagers to get strengthening and sustainable.
Inovative Financial Mechanisms
The spending of the project will be informed to the recipients. The project management fund is participated between project support and recipients. The activities plan will be participated making process
Gender Focus
Village women union was support to participate to the project, they attended on the project meeting 58 time persons.
Education is significant for local women, majority of local women can?t read it is a factor for them to make decision participation development project fund.
Project Results
There were 576 local people participated in three meetings of which 175 are composed of women for project planning phase. The project completed survey activity in the protected area e.g. putting boundary marker covering 166.4 ha and drafting regulation on protected area management for communities. This protected area has been very important to local livelihood and also environment as a whole. The community development fund encourages people to increase family income from livestock raising by purchasing pigs and ducks in four target villages amounting to about 15,533,000 kip (1,941 US Dollars). The submission of third report suggest that majority of the project activities are well underway. The governor in the targeted district issued the certificate of land to four villages enable the community to utilized the land. The completed policy to protect the protected area was given to four villages who are also had the duty to protect the land for any unsustainable use. Tree planting activities comprised of 250 seedlings from Vientiane Capital to Ban Hong Tha Village had been delivered. The district governor advised the four villages to prepare seedlings and bamboo species. Five seedlings will be given to each family and will be planted in the area as part of community forest management. Cash crop is also being promoted in the project an approximately 74 seedlings of mangoes are being planted in the area, an idea from the deputy district governor. In terms of training in administration and finance of the project members, training was attended by 250 people of which 87 women are participants all of which learned the overview of project management and administration. The difficulties undergone by the project in the course of implementation phase included lack of awareness of villagers on the importance of environment especially in protecting watershed areas and some villagers have less respect in the rules that was set up by the project. The cattle bank was also finished but there is also lack of veterinary skill in the community. The difficulties above have been addressed by the association through training and workshop. In the course of the activities, new ideas and techniques are shared to the project members. Some laudable result of the project is completed survey of watershed areas, the placement of markers, a map indicate coverage of protected area (329.41 ha.) and district level policy to protect the watershed. It is vital that there is a dynamic cooperation between project proponent, district officials, members and other relevant actors to fully and successfully implement the project.
