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Strengthening Community Capacities to Mitigate and Respond to Natural Disasters

The first phase of the project will identify and train 250 youths and women (125 females and 125 males) in 12 disaster prone communities in the Western Rural namely, Levuma, Funkia 1, Funkia 2, Fonima, Baoma, Kailahun Court Barray, Dodo, Milton Margai, Adonkia, Bango Farm, Angola Town 1 and Angola Town 2, to identify risk factors of natural disaster and generate response or the appropriate actions. This phase will focus on building the capacity of community structures to be able to obtain first-hand community level information using structured and systemic collection system, analyzing the information, and communicating the results of the analysis to policy makers/critical stakeholders in a form that will be easily recognized and understood to inform appropriate interventions on issues of natural disaster. The project will also strengthen and consolidate cooperation between and among government authorities, policy makers, humanitarian organisations, civil society groups and communities exposed to various levels of natural disasters to prepare and respond to emergency situations.

The second phase of the project will involve all trained participants to monitor and report on threats to the proximate local structure responsible for natural disaster at the community level to ensure/facilitate early response to the identified risk factors including issuing alerts for timely response, as well as provide humanitarian expert advice/guide to manage the impacts of natural disaster affected communities in the project target area. Key among the activities in this phase will include engaging people to identify disaster risk factors and issuing alerts, providing feedback on referrals and coping mechanisms when disaster occurs, organizing open community dialogue platforms to discuss issues relating to disaster prevention, management and humanitarian assistance coordination, etc.

The project is linked to the GEF/SGP strategy 3.3 (Grant-maker+ strategies-Policy influence) and the thematic area on capacity development to developing a two-way communication between and among affected communities, GoSL, CBOs and Humanitarian Agencies

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

FEED THE CHILDREN PLUS SL

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

CapDev
Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP6 -Y4 (Jul 18 - Jun 19)

Grant Amount:

US$ 30,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 1,307.70

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 525.30

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y4/STAR/CC/29/08/2018/33

Start Date:

10/2018

End Date:

9/2019

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Project Characteristics and Results

Policy Impact

Community by-laws will be developed, upheld and implemented or enforced,

Gender Focus

Feed the children Plus SL Project team will make conscious efforts to ensure equal gender representation and participation in the project activities. During the outreach/radio programs issues on disaster prevention and access advice on coping mechanisms for women, girls and the physically challenged persons will form parts of the discussion points and the issues raised will be carefully documented and feedback provided to the appropriate authorities where necessary. Therefore, it is envisaged that 50% female and 50% male representation will be considered. Including the physically challenged persons

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Non-discriminatory, gender parity and social inclusion aspects have been well taken into account. All sensitization meetings and roadshows will be conducted in Krio a language that everyone understands which is the dominant tribe in the Western Area. Members will participate in radio talk shows to explain benefits derived from the implementation of the project.

Notable Community Participation

The idea to hold a more advanced and inclusive training workshops on disaster response came from women, children and the youth in communities already identified by the Office of National Security as disaster prone areas. Having this in mind, other community-based organizations including women, children and youths were consulted to elicit information as to which activities and strategies will be preferred to increase knowledge base and understanding of disaster response systems and utilize the strategies to prevent and respond to disaster threats.

Capacity - Building Component

The key capacity needs of the organization are its human resource, equipment and furniture. The strength of the organization includes a functional office, trained and qualified staff and weaknesses are funding gaps, lack of institutional support.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project communities are characterized by a wide range of socio-economic conditions including agricultural. The project will targeting small scale landholder farmers with established community groups and in each of these communities people are predominantly dependent on small scale subsistence agriculture and businesses with returns not able to afford them the basic daily needs of their families. This project has therefore included cost in its budget to support targeted farmers with vegetable seeds and tools as a way of enabling them undertake vegetables production. This will boost earning while at the same time add value to the land

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The project knowledge management strategy/plan objective is to develop an enlightened community on disaster response options that will encourage greater participation of residents in identified disaster prone communities, especially in the Western Rural. In addition, the approach will create the space for open dialogue and understanding on critical disaster and security issues. Given that, this initiative will also build synergies and contribute to strengthen the existing disaster response programs and structures on the ground as well as follow up on constructive community engagement in disaster preparedness with focus on providing technical support to improve service delivery, improve public confidence in response efforts through community radio and outreach feedback programmes as well as instituting a community-based disaster early warning and response systems in the target project areas

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The project results will reach the target audience through effective bottom-up communication and consultations with the community stakeholders, guided capacity building trainings, more inclusive community dialogue and accountability processes, disaster monitoring and response generation, and more importantly, inclusive community engagement with security and disaster management service providers. The Citizens - Authorities? social accountability dialogue forum and feedback sessions will also improve communication and remove the glass ceiling between the security and disaster management service providers and the communities. The project team will undertake follow up visits to determine the absorptive capacity of the benefactors and their immediate communities in terms of integrating new learning into practice. Interviews and focus group discussions; pre and post project evaluation and learning questionnaires and Project reports will also support the knowledge and communication of project results. The report of the pre and post project evaluation will be shared with stakeholders of the project and discussion platform organized on radio.

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Indicators

Biophysical

Number of local policies informed in climate change focal area 2

Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 300

Livehood

Number of households who have benefited* from SGP project 250

Livehood

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

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