Project Detail

Preventing Climate Change for Sustainable Rural Livelihood and Development in the Moyamba and Western Rural Districts of Sierra Leone

The project seeks to work in an integrated way to strengthening communities knowledge on environmental protection in view of climate change, empowerment of women through livelihood development, strengthening and creating space for dialogue to enhance participation in environmental governance.
The project will introduce women and communities to Biochar energy with the use of ELSA Stove therein bringing out the energy, health, environmental and socio-economic benefits. Common feed stock like ground nut shell, palm kernel shell, wood pellet, elephant grass, rice straw, coconut shell and other agricultural residues will be used thereby preventing the cutting of trees for charcoal production.
The project will also endeavour to reinforce messages on disaster early warning signs in communities and employ participatory learning techniques for communities to adopt positive behaviour change towards sustainable land management.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Counterparts in Rehabilitation and Development in Sierra Leone

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

CapDev
CapDev

Operational Phase:

OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)

Grant Amount:

US$ 27,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 3,000.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/CB/17/08/2016/03

Start Date:

9/2016

End Date:

8/2017

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Gender Focus

16 women and 4 men will be identified by communities to be trained in the production of ELSA stove, this will balance the equation of economic dependency of women on their husbands. These people will also be trained in entrepreneurship development

Notable Community Participation

The empowerment of women through livelihood development will include youths and young adults as the beneficiaries. Youth groups will be engaged in focus group discussions and trainings to strengthen and create space for dialogue to enhance participation in environmental governance.

Capacity - Building Component

The organization has no capacity need to carry out the activities outlined in the proposal. As a matter of fact, they have started the implementation of Biochar training for small communities and village saving groups in their areas of operation in the country. The grant is going to strengthen their initial gains in ELSA stove production and training across the country.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The organization will build experience and community net-working to enhance training facilitation and coordination. All training manuals and brochures produced will be properly archived at the regional offices which are well equipped with community workers that serve as spot workers in sharing knowledge with community beneficiaries and giving feedback. In the process the community workers will train community mobilizers/beneficiaries on the use of the intervention packages. These will permanently reside within the communities through out the project period.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The organization will embark on periodic information sharing through community meetings, dialogue sessions, the media and written reports. Dissemination of information will also accompany all training. This communication strategy will be subjected to change based on prevailing circumstances. GEF_SGP will jointly organize experience sharing and learning trips to promote and replicate of best practices that will benefit local Councils, Government Line ministries, and Agencies. School nature clubs and social mobilization committees at the Community level will also serve as agents of communication for the ELSA stove initiative.

Policy Impact

The project will not produce policy at this stage but it will endeavour to contribute to strengthening existing policies on the conservation of protected areas in the Western Area Rural and Moyamba districts.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The target beneficiaries of the project arepeople livingin Bumpeh and Kongbora chiefdoms in Moyamba district and communities in Western Rural district with about a population of 221,425 comprising women and youth. The indigenous people in these communities will be prioritized to participate in all training and sensitization sessions. Hence sign language interpreters will be engaged for the deaf and dumb during the training and materials will be produced in braille for the blind. Where possible, training will be recorded

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The women and communities will be introduced to Biochar energy with the use of ELSA Stove. If they are properly trained, some of them will engage in the production and selling of ELSA stove as an income generation activity, whiles others will be involved in agricultural productivity and providing local available non-timber biomass fuel - e.g. crop residues, manure, straw, stems etc as feed stocks for the ELSA stove with a small cash return.

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Biophysical

Number of innovations or new technologies developed / applied 1

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 60

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