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The Sustainable Organic Farming and Solar-Powered Drip Irrigation Project (

The Sustainable Organic Farming and Solar-Powered Drip Irrigation Project (SOF&SPDIP) is a bold attempt to save the small farming community in Lalehun Kovoma and to promote economic, nutritional, environmental and agricultural practices. The climate is right to launch a comprehensive environmental and health paradigm in disproportionately impacted small farming communities. A growing awareness of environmental injustices and health sacrificing exploitation in the country has spawned an embryonic environmental justice movement in Lalehun community.
The Sustainable Organic Farming Project (OFP) is intended to promote the economic viability of organic farming and solar powered irrigation as an appropriate method and technology for increasing participation by small farmers, particularly women and youth in the farming sector.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Movement for Community Advancement

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation
Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)

Grant Amount:

US$ 5,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 1,175.50

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 2,194.60

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/LD/17/08/2016/06

Start Date:

10/2016

End Date:

1/2017

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Community participation is key in ensuring that the project succeeds and the lesseons learnet are excalated. The Project Management Unit (PMU) will maintain very close contact with the rural end-users in the Lalehun Kovoma community. The project will organise regular meetings and workshops with donors, community stakeholders and end-users to secure their inputs and support to every activities proposed in the project cycle. Lessons learnt will be replicated and broadcast through radio and televesion shows. The methodology will be explained to listeners and brochures produced for dissemination.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Knowledge management will be firmly rooted at every stage of the project cycle. The team leader and monitoring and evaluations officers will ensure that knowledge and information generated from project activities are well documented in the form of reports, project briefs, project archive, etc. that would inform better for strategic decisions making. Every member of the project team will be encouraged to allocate some of their time to contribute to knowledge management activities including organizing regular community meetings to provide updates on progress.

Policy Impact

No, not at this stage but in future, the massive awareness will create the sens of ownership by the authorities and they will be encouraged to implement community bylaws for the conservation of community forests.

Capacity - Building Component

So far the assessment show that the grantee needs capacity on landscape conservation technologies.

Notable Community Participation

The Project organised regular town hall meetings and workshops with community stakeholders and end-users who are mostly youths to secure their concurrence and support to every activities proposed in the project document. During the implementation, over 60% of the beneficiaries will be youths . The projects ideas has been explained to them and the benefits that they would derive from such activities. In addition, a project management board has been formed to oversee the project implementation with representative from the youth group. Youths and community members will be encouraged to invest into agriculture in order to benefit from both components of the project (irrigation and electrification).

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The production of vegetable will guarantee income generation and promote household earning. The farmers? will use natural fertilizer (organic material in the form of compost, bio char and fertilizer trees) for soil rehabilitation and sustainable land management. This will increase yield and improve living standard as many farm families have reliable income from vegetable sales.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The use of demonstration plots closer to the town where everyone has easy access to has encourage the active participation of indigenous people and other marginalized groups. During the training, sign language interpreters will be hired to ensure that the deaf and dumb also comprehend the information.

Gender Focus

There is no distinctive role between men and women except that the male carry out an extensive agricultural activities while female headed households cultivate less plots of land.

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Indicators

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 2

Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 22

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 100

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