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Integrated community forestry management project

The Jakoi Sibrick village?s forest is classified under the community forestry policy control and managed by the Village particularly the VDC of the Village. The 1 502 villagers in Jakoi Sibrick were the target beneficiaries of this project. This target population are poor communities, consisting mostly of small scale subsistence farmers. By conserving their forest, the communities will be in a better position t implement income generating activities such as bee keeping as well as increase the availability of forest produce and products for their domestic uses.

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Grantee:

Jakoi Sibrick Village Development Committee

Country:

Gambia

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP5-Y3 (Jul 13 - Jun 14)

Grant Amount:

US$ 20,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 6,000.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 15,500.00

Project Number:

GMB/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/SFM/13/04

Start Date:

8/2013

End Date:

7/2014

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Project Characteristics and Results

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The bee keeping component is designed to be source of income for the community. part of the income generated will be deposited in a savings account to be used for further investments in forest conservation. A central nursery with different tree species has also been established and the sales of the seedlings would be another steady source of income for the community.

Capacity - Building Component

The beneficiary community is faced with inadequate skills and lack of finance and produce market outlets. Thus the beekeeping training component is geared to mitigating these factors .

Project sustainability

This is a very motivated community that has already started to benefit from the community forest. The elements of this project will generate more benefits to the community. Thus, this can only reinforce the commitment of the community for the long term sustainability.

Notable Community Participation

This project is initiated by the beneficiary community. This is a highly motivated and committed community. The community is seeking to protect and secure the existing 500m by 2 KM community forest and to introduce bee keeping to help preserve the forest cover. The project is using the family farming development concept in which every member of the family will be involved at some stage of the project. This concept has worked for this particular community since the establishment of the community forest and everyone has taken ownership of the forest and benefited from it. This project will therefore easily build on this high level of community involvement for successful implementation.

Gender Focus

With the family farming concept, both genders are equitably involved in this project. Additionally, the women do hold some key positions in the VDC including; Treasurer, Vice Chairperson, Women mobilizer and Women councilor. This arrangement will ensure equitable gender participation and benefit. To ensure women's participation in beekeeping, some families selected women to represent them and participate in the beekeeping training component of the project.

Project Results

- The community forest amounting to 10 hectares in size, was fenced to curb illegal activities by intruders with materials provided through SGP support. This will help improve the status of the forest which had been degrading due to illegal exploitation.

- Working in partnership with The Forestry department, the Village Development Committee has drawn up a management plan for the forest and negotiations are in high gear for the complete ownership transfer of the forest to the village.

- A tree nursery is being established within the confines the forest once the area is secured to raise seedlings for planting within the forest and the community.

- Through the SGP support, the Village Development Committee has been invigorated with renewed interest in protecting the community forest and have contributed a significant amount of funds - more than D100, 000 (US $2, 500) as c0-funding during project implementation.

- 60 bee hives constructed and distributed among households in the village to enhance their incomes. Most of the hives will be located in the community forest thus giving a greater impetus to its protection by the villagers.

-An exchange visit was organized for some of the community members to learn best practices on forest management and environment conservation to the neighboring country of Senegal. This has resulted in the establishment of a link between the community and ASAPID with the potential for funding opportunity in the future from Concern Universal.

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