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Engaging Rural Women for Conservation of the Gola Rainforest: Linking Conservation to Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in Gaura chiefdom

The project will address problems of land degradation from the practice of shifting cultivation in project communities. Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot. The project will support sustainable natural resource management to enable local people to become environmental stewards of their natural resource base that underpins their livelihoods. This will be achieved through education, capacity building, land use planning and activities that enhance the socio-economic benefits derived from the sustainable use of the project zone's forests and agricultural land? Sustainable natural resource management Goal: To enable local people to become environmental stewards of the natural resource base that underpins their livelihoods through education, capacity building, land use planning and activities that enhance the socio-economic benefits derived from the sustainable use of the project zone's forests and agricultural land

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

GAURA WOMEN AND YOUTHS IN DEVELOPMENT

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)

Grant Amount:

US$ 32,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 5,446.75

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/BD/23/02/2017/16

Start Date:

4/2017

End Date:

3/2018

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Notable Community Participation

A Project Management Community was formed in every section comprising of the chiefdom stakeholders, youths and women representatives. This group was involved in every planning process and implementation of the project. The women farmers groups will be represented in the decision making bodies. The women beneficiaries groups will appoint a representative to be involved in the identification and allocation of project inputs and monitoring at the group level.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Gaura Women and Youths in Development will share information with partners and stakeholders including promising practices and lessons learned. The group will reach out to partners in conservation including the Gola Rainforest National Park (GRNP), the government District Forestry Division (DFO), and national and local actors. Gaura Women and Youths in Development will also share periodic reports with GEF/SGP and the relevant line ministries

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Guara Women and Youth Organization will sensitize community through town hall meetings. The people residing within the communities with skills in sign language will be asked to explain what the speakers say for the benefit of people with hearing disability (deaf and Dumb). Sign posts will be used to communicate the messages to these category of people. Radio talk show will be conducted in Mende for the general listenership. Members will participate in radio talk shows to explain benefits derived from the implementation of the project. Disability cannot be predicted and persons with disabilities will be catered for to actively participate in the project.

Gender Focus

Guara Women and Youths will mainstream a gender perspective in all types of its activities. These will include ensuring that gender perspectives and attention are central to all activities policy development, research, advocacy/ dialogue legislation, resource allocation, and planning, implementation and monitoring of the project. There will be an equality between women and men (gender equality), their rights to access and use the project resources and equal responsibilities. Opportunities will be equally distributed between both women and men

Capacity - Building Component

The organization has a track record of community education on the environment and of promoting sustainable agricultural practices. The organization already owns a seventeen acre land that may be used for a demonstration plot for agroforestry and other sustainable land management demonstrations. Gaura Women and Youths in Development is well known to conservation practitioners like Gola Rainforest National Park, Conservation Society of Sierra Leone, District Forestry Office, Youth Commission and Gaura Chiefdom as a grassroots organization taking the lead in environmental protection.

Policy Impact

The project anticipate the formulation of Bye laws that will help guide the project.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The project will be widely reported in various media. Reports will be made available in meetings with the line ministries and other partners. Reports will be recorded in print in English and by audio in the local languages. Also, videos will be taken on activities in the field and as a report for the donors

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project will provide incentives in the form of inputs such as seeds for tree and. vegetable production. Seedlings for economic fruit trees and cash crops production. The vegetable seeds and cuttings/vines will be supplied to women for crop production that will generate short term income whiles the fruit trees and cash crops mature. In the implementation process, the layout of farm sites, planting, weeding and rehabilitation works will be done by the women who shall be paid for each man-day as a motivation and to provide income for their dependents. In summary, the project will embark on economic tree planting inter-cropped with vegetables that will provide short term income for farm families whilst the trees reach maturity.

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Indicators

Biophysical

Hectares of globally significant biodiversity area protected or sustainably managed by project 300

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 10

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 600

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