Project Detail

Women empowerment in innovative climate-smart agroecology to support sustainable land management, food security, and livelihood enterprises in New Longoro landscape of the Banda District.

This project seeks to provide women farmers with basic skills to enhance climate smart agriculture within the traditional area. Climate smart agriculture is not being viewed in isolation but part of the equation; an integral part of a systemic and inclusive agenda to transform farming in rural communities. It will not be limited to food security alone, but also direct measures are taken to counter detrimental climate effects. Climate smart agriculture agricultural practice that reduces exposure, sensitivity or vulnerability to climate variability or change (for example, water harvesting, terracing, mulching, drought-tolerant crops, index insurances, village savings) is also climate-smart because they enhance farmers? ability to cope with weather extremes. Likewise, agricultural practices that sequester carbon from the atmosphere like agroforestry, and minimum tillage will be introduced to reduce agricultural emissions.

1.3.2 Project objectives
i. To build capacities of rural women to establish climate smart farms to enable the farmers produce reliable harvest and increase yield.
ii. To support the women to invest in climate smart livelihood options in apiculture, small ruminant rearing and all year vegetable production.
The implementation of the project will produce two main outputs as follows:

? 60 rural women farmers supported to invest in climate smart farms and would be practicing dry season farming technologies including soil and water conservation management and bulking of horticulture crop seed and cultivation of climate resistant crops
? 10 ha climate smart farms established and managed by women farmers for reliable harvest and increased yield.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Nyame Na Aye Women Farmers Association

Country:

Ghana

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)

Grant Amount:

US$ 22,100.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 14,000.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 15,000.00

Project Number:

GHA/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/LD/2021/08

Start Date:

4/2021

End Date:

3/2023

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

50 Rural women farmers would be supported to invest in climate smart farms and would be practicing dry season farming technologies including soil and water conservation management and bulking of horticulture crop seed and cultivation of climate resistant crops.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

All the participants are Indigenous people.

Capacity - Building Component

In response to the capacity needs of the people, the project organize training for the groups in soil and water conservation management, compost preparation, mulching, and cultivation of crop resistant crops. The women groups would be taught on the establishment and maintenance of climate smart farms. A demonstration farm would be established a learning field for the group members.

Gender Focus

The project believes in a pluralism that values the diversity among both women and men, and as such Gender Mainstreaming would be considered during the project design at all areas and levels. We will adhere to the principles of GEF guidelines which enhances female participation in all aspect of socio-economic development. The project recognizes women and women-led groups as most vulnerable in keeping with community development obligations and has identified that, women and women-led groups are less likely to bridge the gap between economic development and environmental conservation. And as such, the project will adopt a gender sensitive approach where conscious efforts will be made to identify the role of women to ensure larger participation of women in the project. The project will ensure that at least 50% of women are selected to be part of the project

Notable Community Participation

The project conducted consultation and interactive dialogue with the Youth in the local communities and other relevant stakeholders involved in environmental management issues with the view of soliciting their inputs into the implementation of the project.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The project will use consultative processes to relay information to the CBOs and communities and will actively depend on the local and traditional governance structures to mobilize and reach out to the CBOs and communities. Through focus group discussions, community durbars, peer reviews, monthly and quarterly reports, presentations and local media, the project goals, activities and results will be communicated to the communities and other relevant stakeholders. Policy brief documents will be develop and presented to stakeholders in the form of workshops and community dialogue

Project Results

Activities planned and completed this reporting period and results achieved in the second phase of the project.

1. Duration: December 2021 ? June 2022

December 10th 2021

Purchased two poly tanks, water pumping machine, sprayers, water holes and raising platform for the poly tanks.

January 18th ? 20th 2022

Training workshop for twenty women on access to technologies and transformational process, through communications and access to information technologies was organized. The facilitator Mr. Afa Safa taught them how to use mobile phones to access information, on market, rainfall, how to network with other women groups. The women were happy to learn new technologies.

February March 2022

The training was organized for 100 (hundred) people on improved technical skills and capacity to seize new market opportunities for their products. It was only the youth who had the opportunity to use phone to access information, but now the old farmers are privileged to use their phones for information. They can use their phones to sell and buy products. The facilitator Mr. Benjamin Ntim took his time to educate them to their satisfaction.

An acre farm of dry season vegetables was established by the women. They had two days training on management of cucumber, pest control with local pesticide.

They also established market with some women in Techiman. The market women come to the farm to buy. They are teaching the communities around on the village saving and credit scheme to help them improve their lives.

March 28th 2022

Exchange visit to Fama Nyame women group at Kyenga Krom and Ayorya to train and share experience with them was organized.

Those who were trained have also trained more women within the locality. A total of hundred (100) people, men and youth have benefited. They learned how to prepare local pesticides, Networking, formation of how women groups.

April ? May, 2022

Harvesting has come to an end. An amount of Two Thousand Ghana cedis (2000.00) was raised. More communities have come to learn from Nyame Na Aye and are also practicing dry season vegetables farming. They also feed their family with vegetables.

More women are forming more groups to register to get support from government and NGO?s.
Activities planned but not completed in this reporting period and reasons for delay

All activities planned during this reporting period were all completed.

Activities planned to be completed in the next reporting period.

To consolidate best practices and handover project to the women groups.

Experience, lessons learnt and issues in this reporting period.

The project has contributed to social capital formation. It has introduced good agriculture practices, organic fertilizer, and reduced post-harvest losses. The farmers are investing in livelihood activities by themselves.

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Indicators

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 1

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs formed or registered through the SGP project 1

Empowerment

Number of women participated / involved in SGP project 50

Empowerment

Number of indigenous people participated/involved in SGP project 100

Empowerment

Innovative financial mechanisms put in place through SGP project 2

Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 50

Biophysical

Hectares of land sustainably managed by project 25

Biophysical

Number of innovations or new technologies developed / applied 2

Biophysical

Number of local policies informed in land degradation focal area 2

Biophysical

Number of national policies informed in land degradation focal area 1

Livehood

Increase in household income by increased income or reduced costs due to SGP project 100

Livehood

Number of households who have benefited* from SGP project 50

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 50

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