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Demonstrating sustainable multi-stakeholder and landscape ecology based approach to conservation beyond protected areas - Conservation of harriers around the Velavadar Black Buck National Park.

The project aims at evolving and demonstrating a multi-stakeholder landscape ecology approach based conservation and sustainable development beyond VBBNP. The project will target about 4000ha farmland of about 700 households in five villages namely Velavadar, Motidharai and Rajgadh & Mithapar of Bhavnagar Taluka. Under this project sustainable farming tending towards organic farming and nature conservation will be promoted through education, awareness program, technical guidance, capacity building and demonstration providing input kits and marketing support.
The project will target harrier conservation through research, education and awareness, habitat development and supporting core roosting sites of harriers i.e. Velavadar National Park.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Vikram Sarabhai Centre for Development Interaction

Country:

India

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP5 (Extended Period)

Grant Amount:

US$ 44,439.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 18,396.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 122,262.00

Project Number:

IND/SGP/OP5/Y5/FSP/STAR/BD/2016/98/GUJ06

Start Date:

12/2016

End Date:

12/2017

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

Capacity building of farmers will be done for sustainable farming. Awareness will be created about importance of harriers and other birds in agriculture ecology and promoting sustainable agriculture gradually progressing towards organic farming. Orientation, training and capacity building for organic farming using different methods- IEC school and exposure visits.

Gender Focus

In the farmland both men and women of the family/ household will work together. Female members of the family/ household will participate in a family level discussion for decision making. Women at community level will be organized into sakhi mandals, mahila mandals etc. Communities consisting farmers will be organized in to village level organizations namely FIGs. They will be actively involved in farmland activities with dual objectives a) sustainable farming for enhancing their livelihood and b) biodiversity conservation through ecological/organic farming. Farmers Interest Groups (FIGs) will be formed, minimum 2 female members will be involved in the group. Female farmers will be encouraged to participate in all the activities of capacity building. Every effort will be made to involve women, build their skills in sustainable farming practices and ensure their skilled participation in sustainable livelihood discussions.

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Policy Influence

Replication of project activities

Notable Community Participation

Nil.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

People's organization will be created for institutional sustainability of the project as well as for lateral learning, value addition and marketing linkages. Project orientation will be done at village level, small group meetings will be conducted and farmers will be identified. Broad study on ecology of harrier will be done. Baseline documentation will be done on biodiversity including agro-biodiversity, existing farm practices, knowledge and skills of farmers and livelihood options. Stakeholders and farmers will be made aware regarding importance of biodiversity conservation, sustainable farming and long term livelihood benefits of organic farming. study tours will be organized for FIG- selected farmers from 5 villages (2 within state and 1 out of state).

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The beneficiaries are not indigenous community.

Policy Impact

The project aims and envisages establishing long term organizational purpose through continuous interactions, organizational capacity through organizational capacity building activities and financial management capacity through viable business model and establishing linkages and convergence with other government schemes/ programs and programs of development funding agencies.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project aims at evolving and demonstrating a multi stakeholder landscape ecology approach based conservation and sustainable development beyond the VBBNP. The project will support local culture believing in nature conservation and to create awareness among the community about ecological importance of various wildlife including birds of the project landscape. A model of integrated sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation will be developed for a) Ecological Sustainability b) Institutional sustainability c) Cultural and geo-political sustainability and d) economic and financial sustainability. Participation of the women will be increased for improving livelihoods. The project aims at and envisages a shift in livelihood improvement based on organic/ ecological farming, will produce high value organic farm products (indigenous cotton).

Project sustainability

The project is only for 1 year duration. Just the community were aware about the project?s activity and under some of the activity- their active involvement seen. Once farmer can get better prices, more number of farmers will adopt the sustainable farming which ultimately lead the sustainability of the project.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The results will be communicated to a wider audience apart from the stakeholders via print and electronic media. Process document, case studies and articles will be written and disseminated. 1000 copies of brochures (in Gujarati language) will be printed and disseminated.

Project Results

* 13 FIG with 185 farmers and 8 FIG with 78 farmers formed for desi cotton and desi Jowar respectively.
* Demonstration kits including improved desi seed, liquid biofertilizers, humix, and biocompost were distributed to each farmer.
Deshi Cotton : Total Farmers- 102 and Total Acre- 255
Deshi Jowar : Total Farmers- 20 and Total Acre-20
* The Revenue Maps of the project villages ? Velavadar,Rajgadh, Mithapar, Mevasa and Motidharai were collected from the Land and Record Department, Bhavnagar & Ecological & GIS mapping of the project villages carried out.
* Training were conducted at Village level as well as Out station- At Krishi Vigyan Kendra-Lokbharati Sanosara and Khedbrahma, Agri.Research Station- Dhandhuka and Main cotton Research Station- Surat. Scientific cultivation practices on Deshi Cotton were conducted at Agri.Research Station-Dhandhuka. Anand Deshi Cotton-2 is the newly released variety and its productivity is 1300-1500kg/Ha and most suitable for the VBBNP project area.

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Biophysical

Hectares of globally significant biodiversity area protected or sustainably managed by project 200

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 20

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