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Lutte contre le braconnage et la réduction de la pauvreté par la création des AGR

The district of Mbomo constitutes the southern sector of the Odzala-Kokoua National Park (PNOK) and its southern periphery. It houses the PNOK headquarters. Many efforts have been made by the local population and indigenous peoples to reduce the pressure of poaching. But it still subsists several refractories, recidivists, who because of the best knowledge of the Park, are permanent dangers. To this end, this project aims to raise awareness and get them into activities generating income from accounting for the conservation of biodiversity. It is in fact about fifty young men and women from the local population and indigenous people, should convert through the development of income-generating activities in the fields of apiculture and goat sheep matayge, as well as in the cultivation of corn and pepper.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Union des jeunes de Mbomo pour le développement

Country:

Congo brazzaville

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP6 -Y4 (Jul 18 - Jun 19)

Grant Amount:

US$ 39,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 30,000.00

Project Number:

COG/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/BD/18/07

Start Date:

6/2018

End Date:

5/2019

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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