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Mitigating the impact of climate change and pollution of coastal estuaries and promoting ecotourism in the Western Area Peninsula.

The project aims to build the capacity of four coast line communities to be able to reduce the health risks of the population in coastal communities within the western area peninsular. This will be done through establishing an effective system of coastal zone estuaries management in the communities including the rehabilitation of the mangrove and development of a sustainable waste management to reduce the amount of waste that enters the water bodies. In addition, the project will build the capacity of the local communities on entrepreneurship to increase self-employment in the trade on ecosystem products such as fish, oysters etc. The community will benefit from awareness raising programmes on coastal resilience to sea level rise and its impact on habitat and livelihoods of coastal settlements and river estuaries in the Western Area Peninsula.
The project aims at networking and partnering with the local community based organizations /coalition, the local councils to develop coastal management plan and mitigate the effect of sea level rise due to climate change. The project is located at Number 2 Rivers where there are looming climate variability and hazards due to sand mining and large scale fishing which utilizes mangrove for its preservation.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Responsible Ecotourism Communities Organization

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

International Waters
International Waters

Operational Phase:

OP6 -Y4 (Jul 18 - Jun 19)

Grant Amount:

US$ 5,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 1,500.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 1,500.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y4/STAR/IW/29/08/2018/51

Start Date:

10/2018

End Date:

9/2019

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Notable Community Participation

Community Participation will be ensured through community forums and discussions, involving key stakeholders like local authorities and other operational institutions. This approach focuses on community by practice which embraces originality and commitment: activities like the collection of feed stock production and use of stove will be carried out by community beneficiaries especially women,; planning and implementation and the periodic evaluation of the project and feed-backing , are such activities that community members will contribute to the implementation of the project

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Making presentations to selected groups, such as community farmers, partners, land owners or potential funders is considered by project team as very significant. Conference presentation will be the easiest and clearest way that will be adopted to present project information to key stakeholders. Such presentation will use a variety of techniques such as making a short video presenting the results in visual displays, oral presentations, and informal conversations. Data on project performance will be collected and used to produce interim reports, monitoring and evaluation reports. The project team, in consultation with the donor, will share results with the media for replication through TV/radio discussion program, and/or conference. The project will produce flyers, signposts, and adverts to target people, private enterprises, public sectors such as school; line ministries like Ministry of Energy (MOE), Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS). This will build demand by demonstrating success and create opportunity to expand project. The project team will collect, assess and compile information for success stories by interviewing partners, focus group discussions and observation. The team will share the success stories with communities to verify and rank them for the Most Significant Change (MSC) story. The plus minus and river of life tools will be used to guide the sharing of experiences and documentation. At the close of the project, there will be a reflection and learning event to bring out and document summary of challenges, promising practices, success stories and recommendation for replication and scaling up.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The importance of knowledge management to the continuity is important to the organization and the success of this project is self-evident. Therefore the control and management of knowledge and process related to knowledge is prioritized. To enhance the knowledge environment, the project will proactively facilitate and reward knowledge creation, transfer and use. The project will capture knowledge in structured documents like memos, reports, presentations and articles, and store in a way that they may be easily retrieved. This will help to facilitate the processes of knowledge transfer between individuals and between RECTOUR and other organizations to improve access to knowledge. The integrated project management team will be responsible for compiling monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual project reports with consultation and advice from the UNDP-GEF Coordinator. These reports will be stored in both soft and hard copies (i.e. in paper or electronic format). IT system is employed as project knowledge management systems to store and retrieve knowledge, improve collaboration, locate knowledge sources, capture and use knowledge, or in some other way enhance the knowledge management process.

Capacity - Building Component

The organization has competent people with the pre-requisite experience and qualification as its strength. What is lacking though as serve as weakness is its ability to mobilize funds which makes most of its support staff are volunteers. This is the key demotivation for staff who are not sure about their future career development, job security, pensions and other conditions of service.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project provide employed for a period of 12 months to improve the livelihoods of 25 people who will be directly hire and deployed as waste collector, being supervised and monitored by 12 RECTOUR garbage collection workers for 12 months duration. The salaries will be an immediate source of income for the people.

Policy Impact

The project will contribute to the Abidjan Convention for Cooperation in the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the West and Central African Region 1981. Local bylaws will be developed and adopted on waste disposal and management of marine resources including best practices on beach sand mining and mangrove forest resources. The will be done in collaboration with the local council and Member of Parliament in the constituency.

Gender Focus

The project will promote greater equality among women and men .It will ensure greater participation of women in all aspects of the intervention such as disaster management, Women and youth are central in the planning, implementation and monitoring of activities. The project will focus on building women?s leadership to be active in decision making especially on issues that affect them because in time of disaster men and women suffer differently

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

There are no indigenous people in the project area. most people have migrated from the Western Area and settled along the coastal communities. However, women and people with disabilities will be part of the implementation team

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Indicators

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs formed or registered through the SGP project 4

Biophysical

Hectares of fishing grounds or marine protected areas sustainably managed by project 20000

Biophysical

Pollution discharge into International Water reduced Gram per liter (g/L) of solids reduced 15000

Biophysical

Number of national policies informed in international waters focal area 1

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 800

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