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Connaissance, valorisation, utilisation durable et protection du Péké et du Payot ; soumis par l?Association pour la gestion de l?aire communautaire de chasse de Liouesso (AGACL)

The project area is constituted by the village soil of Liouesso and its hamlets. This area is located on the north-eastern outskirts of the Odzala-Kokoua National Park (PNOK) and is located in a radius of about 70km from the city of Ouesso, in the landscape of Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM ), in the Congo Basin. This is one of the great hotspots of elephant poaching for ivory and bushmeat trafficking. The local populations and indigenous peoples of the Project area are relatively poor and live mainly from the practices of big poaching. The project aims to reduce poverty and pressure on biodiversity, through the development of income-generating activities (IGAs) focused on the development of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), including ongoing community monitoring of preferred biotopes. large mammals (elephants and gorillas). The project will lead local communities to ensure the continued monitoring of the biotopes of predilection of large mammals adjacent or contained in their village soil, with a view to securing them and developing de facto ecotourism products (Gorillas and elephants), including induced effects on ecotourism exploitation, will bring an added value to the socio-economic development of the country and the department. To achieve this objective, the project provides immediate support for the development of the aforementioned IGAs to ensure not only the lean season between the cessation of financing by large poaching and the recording of the benefits of ecotourism, but also a significant parallel source in the socio-economic development, which from the soil of Liouesso, will snowball in the department. Thus the project will contribute to the maintenance and / or restoration of migration corridors of large mammals.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Association pour la Gestion de l?Aire Communautaire de Chasse de Liouesso

Country:

Congo brazzaville

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP6 -Y4 (Jul 18 - Jun 19)

Grant Amount:

US$ 49,150.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 50,000.00

Project Number:

COG/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/BD/18/01

Start Date:

6/2018

End Date:

3/2020

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

Being still in the pilot phase, evaluations will be carried out during the first year of the project and guidance will eventually be taken on a case-by-case basis.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Groups of a dozen people are formed according to the facilities, go camping for a maximum of three (3) days per week to harvest in the beaches of Maranthacée located in the perimeter of forests communaitaire. Each of the groups are small packets of sheets that are delivered to previously organized brokers and holders of the cargo trucks, depending on the volumes ordered. Deliveries are paid in cash and the activity is viable all seasons of the year. Similarly, during the fruiting season of the Irvengia Gabonensis, several groups of a dozen people, will camp for several weeks deep in the community forest, to extract fines from fruits, to constitute bags that will be transported to the village for drying and transformation into food paw bars allowed for local consumption and marketing in urban centers, through previously organized brokers. .

Policy Impact

Standardization of production and marketing methods for non-timber forest products (NTFPs) with a view to obtaining a high added value for the benefit of actors in these value chains. Strengthening evidence in the ongoing process to secure a special binding status for the conservation of clearing blocks and migration corridors of large mammals in national land-use plans

Notable Community Participation

The active population of the area is mainly young, whose main occupation is the poaching of large mammals for ivory and bushmeat trafficking. With the support of the Project, these young people will be enrolled in the association for the social conversion of poachers of the TRIDOM (ARBRAT), to serve as a workforce in activities compatible with the conservation of biodiversity that will be developed through the project.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The nine (9) projects include several simulated themes / activities. By networking them, one could compare the contexts, the results from the good practices and the lessons learned from the central database transformed into knowledge to share and potentially transferable.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

This strategy will focus on the label of products that will bear the mark of village production lands.

Gender Focus

To break this very obvious cultural imbalance. The project will be organized so that the leaders of the various links of the value chains are distributed equitably and that the generated revenues reach each manager directly.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

i) Sub-teams of community ecomonitors will provide monthly monitoring, continuous monitoring of the block of clearings to secure the site against poachers and de facto, promote the maitien and / or the recolonization of mammal gransds (elephants and or gorillas), in order to reach the probability of observation dedicated to the opening of the site to community ecotourism. ii) The establishment of a honey-producing hive and its derivatives, whose appropriation is distributed according to the patrilineal lineages of the village soil, iii) Groups of adults (young, women, indigenous peoples) selected for the organization of sustainable harvesting of maranthacée leaves for the urban markets for packing cassava bread and smoked fish; the sustainable collection of fines from irvengia gabonensis for the processing into popular urban food bars as an essential constituent of the chocolate sauce; iv) A feasibility study on the labeling of bushmeat. Special attention will be given to product quality assurance issues.

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