Despite the fact that the project does not deal at the policy level, but it does have an influence on the participation of the community. It leverages the participation not only of all women in the Nui Island Community on Funafuti but it also attracts the participation of old men as well as the young men of the island community. The leverage also include the attraction of another island community, such as the Nanumaga Island Community's youth organisation known called the TALAFAI.
In spite of the fact that the project was never replicated in the duration of the OP6 here in Tuvalu, but the project no doubt can be replicated elsewhere later on even 10 to 100 years after the completion of the project.
Planning gef grant
No there is no plan to scale up this project to a medium-sized GEF grant as the Nui island Community in both islands - Funafuti and Nui - are all behind the project. Therefore, the project is already complete at its current stage with the available funding from GEF-SGP of the maximum AUD40,000 and the rest from the Nui Island Community.
Policy Impact
Not at the moment.
Linkages gef projects
Not yet have any linkages to any large GEF projects.
Capacity - Building Component
The Lean-To-Local-Food (L2LF) facility will be implemented through local food preparation activities. These include; procurement, processing, preservation, storage and cooking of the produce. It will also involve awareness trainings and workshops on traditional skills and knowledge on preservation methodologies. The trainings will be conducted with women and youth groups, educating them with these food preservation methodologies and techniques.
The project will allow the Nui community to work together in fulfilling the objectives and outcomes of the L2LF set out in sections 1.4 and 1.5 above. Successful implementation of the L2LF requires a better ?Whole of community? collaboration and commitment across the Nui women, men, and youth to progress together. The FNFA will construct a ?community wide-plan? that serves to reflect and effectively communicate strategic direction of the L2LF. The plan will classify processes through which collaboration, planning and decision making and monitoring can happen.
Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
The encouragement and strengthening of home grown gardens.
Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples
The people of Nui are Tuvaluans and are the indigenous people though they are the only other island to speak another language they are still Tuvaluans.
Inovative Financial Mechanisms
The project will consolidate and complete targeted activities (Section A 1.4 & 1.5) where it stipulates the engagement of women, men and youth in training workshops. With regular meetings and workshops with community partners will contribute onto the sharing of experiences and mutual transfer of knowledges and skills attained during the course of project implementation. Furthermore, there will also be representatives from Nui Island and other community?s exchange visits taking place to share practical experiences at the grassroots level. In addition, TANGO and the Nui Falekaupule & Kaupule will be the main counterparts who will help to align the L2LF project with other line government ministries with similar development goals and processes. The use of online tools, such as Facebook and other such popular platforms, will also be considered in the efforts to share the lessons learnt from the project and spread the positive outcomes it may yield.
Project sustainability
The sustainability of the project will be on the funding and maintenance of the island community of Nui both on Funafuti and on the main island of Nui.
Notable Community Participation
The youth are included in the awareness and implementation phases and there is importance that trainings must also be carried out amongst the youth.
Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment
Through awareness training. Inviting partners laid out in the table 1.5.1 refer to the proposal.
Monthly ABNNF community meetings. ?
Radio programs ? work with Tuvalu media to voice out the relevancy of this project. ?
Create a Facebook Nui Community Page and to update activities carried out, either partially, ?completed or still underway. Perhaps a Weekly Facebook update with what has been accomplished. ?
Gender Focus
Women and men are not the same when it comes to adaptation needs, depending on where they live and how they sustain their livelihoods. Climate change tends to exacerbate existing gender inequalities with women tend to face larger negative impacts than men. Women will continue to have a limited access and ownership of natural resources. Within this strategy, the full project will be implemented by women and the project will be owned by the FNFA.
The benefit of this project will be merged through different skills that could produce insightful outcomes on adaptive capacities. Women and youth needs will be supported by local food products made and preserved in the L2LF facility. On the other hand, it will also limit the number of women with NCD?s in the community.
Planning non gef grant
Yes, at this point in time, after the completion of the GEF-SGP funding opportunity, the project is co-financed by the beneficiaries' island community (i.e. the Nui Island Community on Funafuti). Hence, the island community is already being thinking of scaling up the project from the very beginning of the project. That is, they got the highest amount of funding that GEF-SGP is allowing to organizations here in Tuvalu and were getting more than AUD40,000 from their island community to fund the complete work of their project.
Project Results
The results for this project is only one, and that is to get the shelter built. The shelter or the building is for storing of local food supplied by the women community of Nui. The stored local food will be selling to the general public and for the women community to gain profits, and to get their future projects self funded for the improvements of the livelihood of the same community.
