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Fight Deforestation to Mitigate Against Climate Change Through Food Production And Reforestation

This project will diversify and provide alternative livelihood sources for local community members currently engage in charcoal burning, a practice that has adversely damage the rain forest, exposed the natural habitat resulting to negative effects of climate change. PaCAD SL Was established with the aim of working to improve the socio-economic well being of small holder farmers in Kolifa and Tane chiefdoms through the increased production of food crops such as rice, Cassava, Fruit Potatoes and Vegetable. The proposed project will ameliorate environmental damage caused by the systematic destruction of the rain forest by supporting 200 small holders? farmers. This farmers will be provided with improve and viable seed rice, vegetable, basic farming tools and fertilizers. This project will target mainly small holder farmers comprising 30% of women drawn from local communities in kolifa Rowalla and Taneh chiefdoms in Tonkolili District. The total estimated project cost is $12,954 solicited from GEF-SGP and the community contribution will manly include land and labour to support project implementation in twelve months.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Partnership For Community Action In Development/ Sierra Leone

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation

Operational Phase:

OP5 (Extended Period)

Grant Amount:

US$ 12,954.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 1,759.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 1,759.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP5/Y5/CORE/CC/16/11/2017/27

Start Date:

12/2017

End Date:

11/2018

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Notable Community Participation

Community has a youthful population and will be active and fully participate throughout the implementation of the project through. they were involved in the project design and validation to determine the specific project intervention and approach using participatory rural appraisal (PRA) methodologies and techniques. They shall be involved in the conduct of general community sensitization meetings to further share and explain the details of the project content and clarifying specific expectations. Setting up of community structures such as community oversight committees (CoCs), work gangs, grievance redress mechanisms etc. They shall form monitoring team for project activity implementation, regular project reviews and reflection sessions to capture project learning and effect adjustments. The project steering committee shall be involved in procurement processes includng the identification of local suppliers

Capacity - Building Component

PaCAD has a total membership of 150 registered smallholder farmers in Kolifa Rowalla and Tane Chiefdoms, an Advisory Board comprised of 5 members and Programme manager, Administrative and Finance Officer, Project Officer and Office Assistant. It has an office two motorbikes and pick van; it also has a pool of over 100 volunteers with varying professional skills in programme management and implementation. Therefore the organization has the requisite capacity to implement the project. It is affiliated with various local NGOS? COBS and Tonkolili District Council.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

PaCAD will establish a database as repository of project data differentiated appropriately to enhance easy access, processing and storage. Project beneficiary data will be disaggregated by gender, age and geographic location and kept in the form of a register that will be regular updated. Weekly product information will backed-up in computer hard drives and stored in the safe. A physical and electronic filing system will be developed to safely keep essential documents for at least seven years. Project manuals will also be developed and updated from time to with information garnered during project implementation. These will serve as reference materials for similar projects in the near future. Project pictorial materials (hard and soft copies) will be maintained in picture albums and folders. Audio and video materials will similarly be regularly captured and kept as references. Regular radio programmers will be organized to communicate project outcomes to the wider public and also collect essential feedback for project learning purposes.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

PaCAD will produce monthly and annual narrative and financial project and share with GEF SEP and members of PaCAD Advisory Board. Community beneficiaries will be involved in annual participatory project reviews and r reflections session to document and share project achievements, challenges and propose project implementation adjustments. Project success stories and lessons learnt will be documented and shared through half-year magazines/bulletins. Feedback from the general public will be compiled and used for project reviews and adjustments. An electronic database of project documents will be developed and maintained at headquarters.

Gender Focus

The CBO is currently in the process of developing a gender policy/guideline to guide its operations. It will continue to promote women in its programme work. As an equal opportunities organization, men and woman numbers will also be monitored to ensure both sexes receive fair and equitable benefits and opportunities.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The Indigenous People do not exist in the project area. However, all natives of the communities shall be catered for to benefit from the project. Training, distribution of farm inputs and others will be all inclusive of women and people with disabilities

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project activities aim to mitigate socio-economic impacts deforestation and climate change by providing productive employment of local community youth (with many positive indirect effects on household welfare) building social protection systems that are more responsive, and supporting development of community management structures and assets Besides at least 25,000 forest tree (cashew) seeding shall be planted, when fully matured, the will generate income. The project will support food production at household level to reduced hungers, malnutrition and poverty

Policy Impact

There will be local community bylaws to sustain the gains made by the project. Assets will be protected and the results protected for sustainability.

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Indicators

Biophysical

Tonnes of CO2 decreased or avoided by energy efficient and renewable energy technologies or applying environmentally sustainable transport practices introduced by SGP Project 25

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 7

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 250

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