Using banana bark peel innovation with indigenous tree species to expand the water catchment areas and enhance sustainable gravity water supply to Baoma Community
The project seeks to promote the interest of local farmers in nursery establishment, water catchment management, tree planting and Agro-forestry using cocoa and coffee, citrus, mangoes as the main tree crops and other indigenous tree crops species.
Agro-forestry shall include fruit tree planting and establishing community forest. This will provide communities with increase food security, reduce poverty, and increasing environmental conservation as a twin track approach to sustainable livelihoods strategy. Currently, fruit growing, and agro-forestry practices are relatively low-key economic activity in the chiefdom and Sierra Leone as a whole.
Banana bark peels shall be used for nursery establishment instead of poly bags or water plastics. The rationale for implementing such an initiative is to provide practical solution at the community level to address waste management through the demonstration of practical climate smart agro-ecology that can be replicated within Eastern Region, initiatives of afforestation will continue to improve the community forest cover, encourage swamp development to increase productivity and discourage upland farming which is responsible for reducing the forest cover, contributing to soil erosion and land degradation.
Agro-forestry shall include fruit tree planting and establishing community forest. This will provide communities with increase food security, reduce poverty, and increasing environmental conservation as a twin track approach to sustainable livelihoods strategy. Currently, fruit growing, and agro-forestry practices are relatively low-key economic activity in the chiefdom and Sierra Leone as a whole.
Banana bark peels shall be used for nursery establishment instead of poly bags or water plastics. The rationale for implementing such an initiative is to provide practical solution at the community level to address waste management through the demonstration of practical climate smart agro-ecology that can be replicated within Eastern Region, initiatives of afforestation will continue to improve the community forest cover, encourage swamp development to increase productivity and discourage upland farming which is responsible for reducing the forest cover, contributing to soil erosion and land degradation.
Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Luawa Baoma Community
Country:
Sierra Leone
Area Of Work:
Land Degradation
Grant Amount:
US$ 20,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 3,000.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 5,000.00
Project Number:
SLE/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/LD/17/12/2020/10
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment
A replication strategy and action plan would be prepared before end of project and reviewed by all key stakeholders. The plan would identify the main lessons learned from the first year of implementation, assess progress and capacity of community people to carry out project activities, as well as resources required to carry out these activities and potential sources. The result of the project achieved at every stage will be discussed at community level, chiefdom level and also during radio discussion at community radio stations.
One of the training strategies is through a Farmer Field School process, where farmers may be accommodated from other parts of the chiefdom and beyond. Since schools are going to be involved in the planning and implementation of the project, it will serve as one method of dissemination and communication of results which will make the process of replication very easy and effective. In addition to these Focus Group Discussions (FGD) with various stakeholders will be done. Radio discussion programmes to sell the project to other communities outside these communities will be undertaken
Notable Community Participation
Majority of community farmers both men and women are youths. They are always involved in the project planning and the type of trees they want to plant.From the identification and establishment of nursery sites , nursery maintenance to planting of trees in the field are all done by community people
Community members form part of the monitoring committee that have been put in place and are trained in basic monitoring activities. This will help to ensure sustainability
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Indicators
Empowerment
Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project
10
Biophysical
Hectares of degraded land rest
50
Livehood
Total monetary value (US dollars) of ecosystem goods sustainably produced and providing benefit to project participants and/or community as a whole (in the biodiversity, international waters, and land degradation focal areas as appropriate)
1000
Livehood
Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project
550
SGP Country office contact
Mr. Abdul SANNOH
Email:
Address
UNDP SIERRA LEONE, UN COMPLEX, FOURAH BAY CLOSE, WILBERFORCE
FREETOWN, WESTERN AREA, 23222
FREETOWN, WESTERN AREA, 23222
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