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 portion of the project will be dealt primary by the organisation itself!
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.
