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Effectively support the promotions of sustainable management of the community natural capital to reduce the green house gas emission and improve on crop yield by the end of the cropping season 2017/18

The proposed project is to promoting the sustainable management of the community natural capital to reduce the green house gas emission and improve on crop yield by the end of the cropping season 2017/18 through the implementation of initiative such as maintain or improve flow of agro-ecosystem and forest ecosystem services to sustain livelihoods of local communities and reduce pressures at community level for competing land uses. Introduction of Climate Smart Agricultural practices towards sustainable land and forest resource management that includes agro forestry, Inland valley swamp cultivation of rice farming, vegetable gardening and the establishment of tree nursery especially for oil palm production and other tree plant that can support the trapping of the green house gases into the atmosphere.

The project will also promoting soil fertility by planting leguminous plants (for nitrogen fixing) and fast growing economic trees to prevent loss of land cover and soil erosion. This will go a long way in address poor yield as a result of over cultivation of land which normally results to a greater exposure of different gases and less soil fertility for productivity. Accelerate agro-ecology programmes that includes conservation of genetic resources especially appropriate varieties of species that will ; promotes climate smart agriculture, agro ecological innovative farming and avoid slash and burn thus reducing emission of GHG.

The project will strengthen the capacity of communities and the farmer based groups around the operational area to ensure that stakeholders are fully engaged (local and central governments) in constructive dialogue on environmental planning and policy development for the development of bye laws that will discourage the continuous felling of trees and possible forms of alternative livelihoods practices that can be practiced at the community level using resources mobilized by the Tamuya Development Organization. It will effectively promote capacity development of women groups/organization to advocate for prioritization and environmental friendly utilization of natural resources, to women that what to implement local innovative practices in sustainable agriculture, low carbon technologies especially in the areas of acquiring land for production purposes.

The project will build capacity through developing and implementing exchange programmes for communication of operation and even non community members to ensure greater visibility of the SGP in the localities and nearby districts.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Tamuyu Women Farmers/Traders Association

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation
Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)

Grant Amount:

US$ 30,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 7,971.30

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/LD/23/02/2017/22

Start Date:

5/2017

End Date:

4/2018

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Sierra Leone do nat have Indigenous People however there are people with disabilities and older people who are mostly marginalized. The project will target vulnerable these groups within the communities of operation to ensure that the holistic lives of the rural communities are improved over a given period. The proposed design of the project is to ensure that capacity building concept is fully enshrine so that even after implementing the project the best practices can be adopted and implemented through voluntary facilitation by the membership to those groups whose knowledge base of the technology are still low

Capacity - Building Component

The Tamuyu Women Farmers/Traders Association is playing key advocacy role and project support drive to certain number of women groups within the Yoni Chiefdom Tonkolili District. It was established in 2013 as an umbrella development organization that can support it affiliate entities through resources mobilization, project implementation support, capacity building and transfer of new technology initiatives to it members through a concept of practical demonstration and illustration of ideas and exchange visits. The group predominately comprises of women and youths whose capacities have built as groups with lot of skills that will improve their livelihoods and enhance their farming practices. However, they need modern technology for advancement and and environmental protection.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The Urban Women Development Organization will use its best effort to generate and share knowledge. Lessons learned and experienced gained in the project will be gathered and shared with all stakeholders, funding and strategic partners. The organization have a long history in terms of replicating initiative funded through project grant mobilization of it members. Therefore it closely works with all its affiliated entities to encourage field visit and forum for exchange of ideas and best practices. The lot of successes the organization has gain was built on the principle of providing capacity support for its membership which is mostly driven by technology transfer initiatives which farmers organization can evaluate to come up with clear measurement of the level of benefits gain if it is to be replicated. The tools and methodology will be learning by doing and experience sharing with other communities to enhance increase impact of the initiatives introduced over a given period of time.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The development organization will introduce community peer review of implementation of the project deliverables to help track progress by the different affiliated entities implementing the project on behalf of the umbrella group that provides more of supervision role in the implementation. The result will be review in the presence of other key players from government, private sector and non-governmental organizations to be able to create synergies and build on previous successes

Notable Community Participation

The organization comprises of different farmer based groups whose members consider themselves as part of the parent body through the payment of registration fee meet regular to discuss plan and necessary steps to support the group going forward. Therefore before developing this proposal an emergency meeting was called to discuss the call for proposal and how to develop the concept which focal areas to focus on within the various communities especially in relation to their current challenge. Also the implementation arrangement was thoroughly discussed which is not really a new concept because that has been the approach of the organization in implementing programmes and projects. With the understanding that the executive body of the umbrella group manages the project while the actual or physical implementation done by the affiliated entities. Monitoring is done at different levels from the community stakeholders to the affiliated group members and to the executing body of the umbrella group to ensure due diligence is observed in the way and manner how the project activity are implemented to get the final results. Furthermore, the issue of accountability and transparency in the disbursement of funds are fully handled by all concern entities. Mostly this will be part of the monitoring plan to be developed by the umbrella group for easy measurement of set deliverable as against the identified indicators for success.

Policy Impact

The project will promote changes in government policy on community forest management and this will trickle down to the local communities who will in turn develop bye laws.

Gender Focus

The umbrella body and its affiliated entity mostly comprises of women because it was established with the purpose to support and advocate on behalf of women because study have shown that women and youths are the most vulnerable to environmental and climate relayed disaster. Therefore, gender is fully taken into consideration from inception of the development organization to help support community women farmer based organizations which have been deprive over the years to be given equal opportunity as men in the issues of land ownership and other related leadership and controls.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Training on book keeping for affiliate member organizations will generate income for households. Development of Fish pond and establishment of vegetable garden. Development of IVS for feeding and selling the surplus.

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Indicators

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 5

Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 100

Biophysical

Hectares of land sustainably managed by project 650

Livehood

Total monetary value (US dollars) of ecosystem goods sustainably produced and providing benefit to project participants and/or community as a whole (in the biodiversity, international waters, and land degradation focal areas as appropriate) 50000

Livehood

Number of households who have benefited* from SGP project 120

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 120

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