Project Detail

Degradated land (resulted by manganese mining) restoration in Chiatura Municipality

project aims land re cultivation in order to stop degradation caused by manganese mining. Strengthening community participation and awareness raising for environmental problem solving. Creation of map for land and abandoned quarry in the region. Introduction and demonstration of sustainable re cultivation model for suspending land degradation and deforestation processes. Production of tree seedlings important for land re cultivation. Cooperating with the local government to forecast land re cultivation expanses and foresee it in annual budget in order to carry out respective activities.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Association of Chiaturians Union

Country:

Georgia

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP5-Y3 (Jul 13 - Jun 14)

Grant Amount:

US$ 49,449.50

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 25,792.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 69,754.00

Project Number:

GEO/SGP/OP5/Y3/CORE/LD/13/08

Start Date:

12/2013

End Date:

9/2013

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Photo Gallery

View photo gallery

Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

During the project implementation local were actively participated as a volunteer in the process of planting and soil recultivation activities as well as in advocacy campaign - signs the petition, for asking the Sakrebulo to allocate funds annually for restoring the remaining degraded soils; thus participants capacities in these regards has been increased strongly

Notable Community Participation

In total, there were plenty of meetings organised with the population in the villages: Perevi, Shukruti, Itkhvisi, Rgani, Zeda Rgani, Mgvimevi, Bunikauri, Tabagrebi and 10 meetings with the local government. The environmental awareness and involvement of the public in the project activities were discussed at the meetings. The project coordinator was responsible for organizing and conducting the meetings. project strongly contributed the strengthening the institute of volunteerism in addressing eco-problems: the youth and schoolchildren were actively participated in trees planting activities in demonstration plots. They were also involved in dissemination of printed materials and other project activities.

Policy Impact

Pursuant to the request of signatories to the petition (1,000 signatures), to initiate a normative act at the Sakrebulo of the Municipality ?for annual allocation of at least 30,000 GEL from the municipal budget for environmental activities?.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Recultivated territories will provide conditions for the population to use these territories in the long run for grazing and for feeding the bees. It will support the development of cattle breeding and bee keeping, which thus will boost revenue generation for the public.

Gender Focus

The project?s gender strategy implies strong engagement of women and their participation in environment protection issues. This increases the women?s role in public life and in making community decisions. Besides, as far as the women are more engaged in economic activities, which usually generate profit (rearing the cattle and bees), soil recultivation will increase their productivity and hence, their role in the family.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

following activities were implemented for public awareness about sustainable land management and environmental issues in general: By the end of the project, the accumulated experience, knowledge, success stories and challenges/lessons learnt ? was generalized. A presentation was arranged with the respective video and photos, and this presentation was shown to NGOs, government and other stakeholders, who are working for the environmental issues; The broadcasting company Imervision hosted two TV-talk shows, with participation of the Association Chiatura Citizen Union, representatives of the government and the public (twice, before planting the young trees). There was also a scrolling line for 20 days, 10 times a day, for promoting the projects and for attracting the volunteers. A booklet was published with the circulation of 3,000 copies, and a newspaper was published as well, with the circulation of 500 copies reflecting the problems addressed by the project, what has been done, what result has been achieved and etc. The project presentation was made, including the report, for the environmental NGOs.

Planning non gef grant

local municipality will ensure nursery maintenance as well as to continue re-cultivation activities with bigger scale

Project sustainability

project established nursery , which will supply Chiatura municipality with 3000 trees annually ; besides, sustainable land managed practice will contribute to locals agricultural production and bee keeping activities municipality will continue maintenance of nursery and will continue re-cultivated activities in wider scale

Project Results

over 3 ha of land degraded by manganese mining was re-cultivated and sustainabely managed by the project
over 2000 threes were planted for sustainable land management
nursery, producing over 3000 trees was set and functional
over 100 young students were actively involved in project activities and their environmental acknowledgment was raised
planted trees will contribute to bee keeping on surroundings of Chiatura municipality
organization established strong cooperation practice with local municipality , thus ownership was ensured for nursery and re-cultivated land maintenance

+ View more

Indicators

Empowerment

Number of women participated / involved in SGP project 300

Biophysical

Hectares of land sustainably managed by project 3

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 300

Back to search results

Countries

Regions

Project Snapshot

Photo Gallery

SGP Country office contact

Address