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Women Economic Empowerment through Climate Smart Agriculture in forest edge communities in Sierra Leone

The project is titled Women Economic Empowerment through Climate Smart Agriculture in forest edge communities in Sierra Leone. it is put together in responses to challenges posed by climate change which does not only require technological changes on the part of many stakeholders, but also major behavioral shifts at various levels to help communities increase their adaptive capacity. As such, the overall goal of this project is to enhance gender-sensitive adaptive capacity of selected forest edged communities around the Coastal communities in Bonthe District, to climate change and strengthen women?s capacity to meaningfully engage in climate smart agriculture. The main objectives of the project are: To enhance production, income and nutrition-sensitive climate-resilient livelihoods among targeted communities: To increase opportunities for women to invest in climate-resilient agriculture at district and community levels; with following as expected results: 1: Production, income levels and nutrition sensitive livelihood diversification among 5 targeted communities improved; and, 2: 30 women?s capacity to invest and meaningfully participate in CSA is strengthened.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Community Development Initiative Sierra Leone

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP6 ?Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)

Grant Amount:

US$ 20,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 5,600.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/ LD/15/10/2021/19

Start Date:

12/2021

End Date:

12/2022

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

ComDI has 22 staff (14 male; 8 female); and 5 volunteer (2 male; 3 female). it is legally registered with Ministry of Finance & Economic Development (MOFED), with registration number NNGO/772/2020-2021. It has implemented several environmental projects and has the capacity to implement that task.

Notable Community Participation

During the Project Identification and Preparation stages, stakeholders consisting of youth, youth organizations and private sector groups who could participate in the formulation and contribute to the successful implementation of the Project have been identified. To generate buy in and strong project ownership, participatory workshop and individual face-to-face consultations were conducted to assess their needs, identify problems and suggest solutions, clearly define their role/involvement both during the Project preparation and Project implementation and ascertain their commitment to the objectives of the Project.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Knowledge products (flyers/leaflets) will be developed to share key messages with local and national audiences. A professional photographer will visit intervention sites at the onset, midterm and final stage of the project to ensure communication efforts are supported with high quality images. To give greater legitimacy to the messages, and increase outreach coverage through repetition by stakeholders, the project will establish linkages with the media, local governments, academia, faith groups, NGOs, and private sector to mobilize support for dissemination of key messages and lessons learned.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Specific measures including the use of local language during trainings shall be taken to improve local people and people living with disabilities access to markets and also to broaden the scope of employment opportunities for them; funding provision will be made in the project budget.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Successes generated through the implementation of the project will be harnessed and translated in communication products for sharing with beneficiaries, donor and other partners audiences, including government MDAs, civil society. For each target group, the most effective and efficient ways of communication will be used. Tools and activities to communicate messages will include: ? Local: workshops, meetings, knowledge products, printed media, radio programs. ? National: meetings with MDA representatives, knowledge products, printed media, radio programs. ? Global: social media (GEF websites, Twitter, Facebook), international media outlets.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project shall provide climate smart agriculture and climate adaption for women to have access to climate-resilient livelihoods, productive assets, technologies, and skills that will empower them to earn income. Women and girls affected by climate change will play a leadership role and benefit from CSA and climate change adaptation (CCA) efforts; and adaptive capacity to climate change will be enhanced and women?s rights and needs will be at the center of climate-smart agriculture and climate adaption strategies and priorities.

Policy Impact

The project shall trigger policy change towards women?s rights and needs as priority to be at the center of climate-smart agriculture and climate adaption strategies and priorities.

Gender Focus

The project will ensure that women and people with disabilities are given the opportunity and capacity to participate equally in project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Based on baseline needs assessment and market studies to be carried out during the initial stages of the project, women, children and people with disabilities will explicitly be targeted for training and skills-building to increase their opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship.

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Indicators

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 10

Biophysical

Hectares of land sustainably managed by project 40

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 150

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