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Lancement des activités agro-pastorales pour améliorer les revenus des populations d’Etoumbi et lutter contre le braconnage.

The Etoumbi District is the nearest urban center and the one from which the expeditions that undermine the integrity of the Lango Salt Works, the connecting point for the largest number of elephant migration corridors, take place in the center. of the Odzala-Kokoua National Park (PNOK). In addition, the district of Etoumbi have important biotopes of large mammals in Tséré and Abéla at the time interconnected and triangular to the large saline of La Lango mentioned above. The objective of the Project is 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 forest products. biotopes of predilection for 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 des Jeunes pour l'Emergence d'Etoumbi

Country:

Congo brazzaville

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP6 -Y4 (Jul 18 - Jun 19)

Grant Amount:

US$ 49,900.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 38,000.00

Project Number:

COG/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/BD/18/04

Start Date:

6/2018

End Date:

12/2019

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) The former poachers become ecomoniters are divided into sub-teams of community ecomonitor who will ensure every month rotatively, monitoring continues the block of clearings to secure the site against poachers and de facto, promote the maitien and / or the recolonisation mammal grands (elephants and 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 for honey and its derivatives , whose appropriation is distributed according to the patrilineal lineages of the village soil. iii) On the basis of the existing herd Groups of adult people (young, women, indigenous peoples), predisposed to maize crops and goat sheep grazing are selected according to the different lineages existing in the village, for the development of the aforementioned speculations. Inputs and coaching are provided up to the empowerment of these groups

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