Project Detail

To mitigate the environmental climate challenges of land degradation and sustainable farmland management of 200 vulnerable small holder farmers in Port Loko and Kambia districts of northern Sierra Leone

The project will target a total of 200 beneficiaries, 70% of these beneficiaries are women and youth and 30% will be men. 200 hectares of open farmlands will be planted with economic trees that will contribute to community forest in two chiefdoms in Port Loko and two chiefdoms in Kambia Districts. That is to restore the degraded areas with forest cover thus bringing back the lost vegetation. As a result of the vast deforestation activities carried out by farmers, charcoal producers in serach of their livelihood sources, the proposed action of planting 200 hectares of fast growing economic trees (reforestation) will be in line to the GEF/SGP country program strategy of Land degradation and sustainable forest management. The total budget approved by GEF/SGP country program for the successful implementation of the action is $13,600. This fund will be used partly to establish and to setup a village savings and loans scheme among the beneficiaries of the project and partly fund the agroforestry activities. The trees will be inter-cropped with annual food crops to keep the farms clean and as an immediate livelihood provision for the beneficiaries. The funds will also be used to build the capacity of the beneficiaries in sustainable income generation activities in the targeted areas of the action. Contributions from Tamemsu Women and Youth Development Organization and the targeted communities will be in the form of in-kind support which include local labor and provision of land.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Tamemsu Women and Youth Development Organization

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation
Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP6 - Y3 (Jul17 - Jun 18)

Grant Amount:

US$ 13,600.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 10,500.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/LD/16/11/2017/30

Start Date:

12/2017

End Date:

12/2018

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

All activities funded under this project will culminate into a report compiled by project managers which are verified and approved by the managing director that will be submitted to the Small Grant Coordinator. At the moment the organization do not have a website, but major project activities will be reported in various national radios programe and Newspapers. Moreover Tamemsu women and Youth Development Organization is an active member of the district sectorial meetings of the Ministry of Agriculture where updates of project implementation at district levels will be discussed

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

All discussion relating to the project implementation will be done in either the local language or interpreted to the local language of these communities. Where videos and reports are used to explain certain concepts, these materials will be translated into the language of the community where possible.

Gender Focus

Being the most vulnerable and marginalized in communities, preference will be given to women farmers as beneficiaries. Women will play a pivotal role in this project implementation as key beneficiaries. Even though their husbands, brothers or uncles will do the hard works such brushing and lay outing of farm sites, the very farms will be owned by women. The youths in the community are also a priority in the implementation. In communities where women do not have access to farm lands, memorandum of agreement will be developed and signed by landowners and other community stakeholders to make farmlands readily and legally available to women and youths. These MOUs will safe-guard these women to own farmlands in communities for longer periods

Capacity - Building Component

Having implemented agricultural projects over the years in the country, Tamemsu women and Youth Development Organization has a well-established organizational structure of management. The organization has both management and technical staff. The management team is normally responsible to develop work plans and budget. The technical team is mainly responsible to carry out the field implementation of project activities. The administration and finance department of Tamemsu is responsible to disburse project funds based on the outline budget lines. However they shall need mobility to facilitate our field activities and monitoring.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Local communities in these four chiefdoms are predominantly farmers that are engage in slash and burn agricultural practices with their main emphasis on annual crops. Introducing cash crop farming will serve as an alternative that help increase their income as well as improving the forest cover. Reforestation activities under this project will lead to carbon sequestration thereby contributing to climate change mitigation. Investment in tree crops and the return it brings to farmers will encourage farmers to see agriculture as way of life Moreover, the project will embark on VSL scheme which will fill the gap of financial service institution that exists in these communities.

Notable Community Participation

The consultation meetings held with the communities stakeholders involved youth and women who are mostly engage and active in farming activities. Active women and youth groups shall participate in identifying key beneficiaries. In the implementation process, the communities will fully participate as the beneficiaries will be involved in the layout of farm sites, planting, weeding and rehabilitation works and different forms of training activities that will be supported under this project. Their participation will be granted because they will provide in kind contribution to the project in the form of local tools, labor, and land. The beneficiaries will be fully involved in the implementation whilst the monitoring and evaluation of activities will be done by Tamemsu women and Youth Development Organization M&E officer in collaboration with the community stakeholders. The involvement of stakeholders is to ensure transparency and accountability of the implementation activities based on the design during the planning phase. Feed backs from these community people on the general impact of the implementation will highly considered during the monitoring and evaluation exercises

Policy Impact

The project will help promote the enforcement of existing by laws that support forest management. We will also advocate for women to own piece of land for their agricultural activities, especially for tree crops.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

When the implementation will be going on, progress of project activities will be collected and documented for reporting. The successes of the project will be outlined and beneficiaries will be interviewed to give their feedback about the project. These stories will be documented and reported to the donors as lesson learnt during the implementation. Challenges and other concern of the implementation will also be documented for reference and recommendations will be outlined on how improvements or adjustments should be made in the implementation of such project.

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Empowerment

Number of women participated / involved in SGP project 200

Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 200

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