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Capacitate and promote the conservation of the Warawara Forest - the Natural Capital Base and Water Tower of the Warawara Limba country side in the Koinadugu District, thereby protecting the High Conservation Value (the biological diversity, RTE Species, Threatened landscape, Culture, Ecosystem services and Community needs) of the area and helping in the sequestration of carbon and reduce forest fire incidence that destroy the forest and emit thousands of tons of carbon-dioxide every year into

The proposed project is intended to promote the conservation of natural capital of the Warawara Mountain through best practiced agriculture like conservation agriculture, community led fire management strategies, providing alternative livelihood sources by developing sustainable bee farming, production and marketing and reduced logging and over grazing. It is hoped that this will help improve agricultural yield by the end of the farming season in 2018, save community farm products mostly owned by women from forest fires that claims 100s of tons of farm produce like pigeon pea every year and contributing to hundreds of tons of carbon into the atmosphere as well as degrading tens of hectares of forest and farming land.
The proposed project will also help forest user groups in designing sustainable harnessing of non-wood forest products and value addition mechanisms to access better market and improve annual cash income by households with very little footprints left on the forest. The maintenance of the forest this way, will help in the provision of other ecosystem services including fresh water supplies and quality air. Also medicinal plants that solely depend on the genetic richness of the forest will potentially improve in type and quantity.
The project will work with farmers and herders to create community wood lots mainly of Gmelina plants to provide construction poles, serve as fodder for the cattle and reduce forest burning which is one of the greatest threats to the forest in the area. Such wood lots will also serve as source for construction timber for communities when sustainably harvested. This will help to reduce conflict between herders and farmers
Research has shown that lack of inclusive management especially of the forest communities is a key reason for the destruction of most forest ecosystems in the country, therefore the project is intended to create an inclusive dialogue platform for all stakeholders and use the forest management structures created to address forest management issues and benefit sharing mechanisms.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Coalition for Sustainable Natural Resource Management

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP5 (Extended Period)

Grant Amount:

US$ 12,954.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 2,449.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 4,082.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP5/Y5/CORE/BD/16/11/2017/25

Start Date:

12/2017

End Date:

11/2018

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

A total of at least 15 VFMA cluster each trained in sustainable bee farming, sustainable harnessing of non-wood forest products, value addition and marketing techniques. Train 100 VFMA members in Best Environmental practices Agricultural (Integrated Pest Management System , Compost manure application, reduced post harvest loss, etc).

Policy Impact

Bylaws will be developed for training 200 VFMA youths and women (8 from each of the 25 communities) in prevention and fighting fire. And demonstration sites for conservation agriculture (CA)

Capacity - Building Component

The CBO has a good number of staff who have not only worked for the past decade in the natural resource sector in Sierra Leone but also led all of the technical works in the communities under the PAGE Programme, the organization is better placed to continue with the community led joint forest management approach as an integral strategy of implementation. As an umbrella organization of the forest management associations around the Warawara forest, the CBO will support these associate bodies through organizational development, mobilization of necessary resources, implementation of projects, best practice and other relevant technologies transfer and capacity building through learning by doing.

Gender Focus

The CBO has it entrenched in their bylaws to have not less than 40% of their executives comprising of women. Also the entire membership of the Village Forest Management Associations (VFMAs) is dominated by women since they were found to be more forest users than the men. The Board of the organization also attaches much importance to gender issues and has it strongly monitored in reaching crucial management and policy decisions on behalf of the organization

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The VFMA members include some Indigenous People whose capacity will be improved through training that will be conducted in their local language and awareness of communities raised in key environmental management and climate change issues

Notable Community Participation

The beneficiary communities are part and parcel of the process from the onset and are informed on any steps taken by the organization through their Village Forest Management Associations (VFMA) meetings. To this end, while the CBO is charged with the overall management of the project and serves as the focal point for the receipt and dissemination of information to ensure consistency in progress achieved, the practical implementation of the project is undertaken by affiliate members in the communities. By this the project is practically owned by the beneficiary communities and ensures sustainability. While monitoring is continuous throughout the project life, it is also implemented at every level of the implementing organs. The VFMAs are the actual generators of implementation data and very key in the monitoring process. This will help in building trust and reduce doubt around transparency and accountability issues. A well generated and trusted data will help in the production of quality information for partners.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The main source and channel of communication of results shall be through the data generated at the implementation sites and communities which are usually stored in the data base of the project. The reports, data sheets, completed M&E forms and pictures will serve as storage channels from which information and smart and green technologies shall be disseminated. Results achieved and challenges faced during the implementation of the project shall be used to replicate technologies that are green, lean and smart in other areas and ways by which challenges will be overcome

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The primary objective of this project is to improve on the capacity of the beneficiary communities on best management practices of their forest resources in the face of climate change. To this end it is a core value of COSNARM to improve the knowledge base of communities that will help in militating against the increasing environmental problems faced by the people of the Warawara communities and help reduce the threat of climate change and poverty as a result. Information generation and sharing will not be a one way flow but in line with the core principle of shared learning at all levels of the project. This will allow information to flow from the project communities to the partners and vice versa. It is our belief that an informed society is a better managed and peaceful one. Records, reports and training modules will be appropriate supportive tools to experiential learning by the communities. This is to ensure best practices by the beneficiary communities, way beyond the project life span. This will ensure the transfer of knowledge to other communities and partners without necessarily over depending on the CBO after the project has ended.

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Indicators

Biophysical

Hectares of globally significant biodiversity area protected or sustainably managed by project 25

Empowerment

Number of indigenous people participated/involved in SGP project 1250

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 1250

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