PART 1: PROJECT COVER PAGE

A. GENERAL INFORMATION

Country Mauritius
Project No. For SGP Official Use as relevant. Do not write anything here
Project Title : Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security and Livelihood
Submission date 21/08/2022

B. CIVIL SOCIETY/COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION ? APPLICANT

Name of organization Fam-Unie Foundation
Year established 2022
Physical & Mailing Address: Village Paul & Virginie-Ti Rodrigues-Cite La Cure, Port Louis
Telephone 230 5808 2454
Email famunie.foundation@gmail.com
Principal Officer (name and position) Chantal Espitalier-Noel-President
Project contacts (names and positions) Chantal Espitalier-Noel-President

C. PROJECT LOCATION

Landscapes/Seascape (name) Cite La Cure
State/District and Town/Village Port Louis
Coordinates (latitude/longitude) 20° 9' 20" S, 57° 31' 40" E.

D. GEF SMALL GRANTS PROGRAMME CLASSIFICATION (please consult NC/NSC as needed)

Each project will select one primary SGP Strategic Initiative and one primary Focal Area as indicated in the below table. Projects may have secondary Strategic Initiative and Focal Areas which should be noted in the project justification and approach. Appropriate indicators should be selected in line with the primary and secondary focal areas of the project (refer to the annex 1 below)

Primary Strategic Initiative (choose one primary Initiative) Primary Focal Area (choose one primary focal area)
Community-based conservation of threatened ecosystems and species Biodiversity
? Sustainable agriculture and fisheries, and food security Climate Change Mitigation
Low-carbon energy access co-benefits ? Land Degradation/Sustainable Land and Forest Management
Local to global coalitions for chemicals and waste management Chemical and Waste Management
Catalyzing sustainable urban solutions International Waters


E. PROJECT DURATION


Proposed Start Date October 2022
Project duration (in months) 2 years



F. PROJECT FINANCE

Financial sources Local Currency USD currency
Total fund request from GEF SGP 1,009,626(USD 22,702) 44.473
Total fund from cofinancing (cash)
UNDP SEDU 1,778,920(USD 40,000) 44.473
Total fund from cofinancing (in-kind) 2,450,000
Total Project Cost 2,788,546(USD 62,702)

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G. ORGANIZATION ? ELIGIBILITY
Please describe proposing organization?s experience and eligibility to successfully implement the proposed project:

a) Type of organization
? Community-based organization (CBO)
? Civil society organization (CSO), including academic/training institution
? Others (describe the nature of the organization) non-governmental organization (NGO)

In addition, choose one or more of the following as appropriate:
?Indigenous Peoples organization
?Women?s group
?Youth Group
?Persons with Disabilities group

b) Length of existence and project management experience if any: 7 months

c) Briefly describe purpose and core activities of the proposing organization/group: include a mission/vision statement as appropriate.
Fam-Unie Foundation has been founded by Chantal Espitalier-Noel at Cite La Cure to support the personal development and socio-economic inclusion of a community of poor and vulnerable women, mainly from Rodrigues, living in a ghetto. Our purpose is to equip them with relevant life skills and transmit them values, which will transform their lives positively so that they can become active agents in society and benefit from market-based opportunities.
Vision: To empower underprivileged women communities with entrepreneurial and income generating skills in order to facilitate their socio-economic integration.

Mission: To support minority groups through capacity building programs and women community-based projects that have the potential to generate a sustainable living.

d) Briefly describe organizational structure, governance and administrative framework, including staff numbers, roles, etc. Provide an indication of the legal status with any supporting registration/legal documentation as annex. If none, provide an elaboration of its nature of existence. Provide recent audited financial statement if any.
Fam-Unie Foundation consists of a dynamic and creative team, which sets the goals, provides a clear direction and plan of action for members and beneficiaries. Chantal Espitalier-Noel is the founder of the organization. She focuses on key areas like strategic decisions, funding opportunities, project management, and marketing tactics, which represent the backbone for the sustainability of this NGO. Doris Félicité, the Centre manager, oversees the planning, implementation, coordination, and monitoring of all activities. She lives in the ghetto of Cite La Cure and plays a central role in the outreach to the vulnerable group of women. Annick Corroy provides administrative assistance to the organization. She is also responsible for developing communication plans to support outreach efforts that tell the story of the organization and amplify its mission and objectives. She will be managing this project and liaising with UNDP.

e) Describe previous experience relevant to the proposed project, including activities related to global environmental issues; or experience with projects that focus on sustainable development at community level.
Fam-Unie Foundation is a newly formed NGO, which adopts a people-centric approach by investing in people to empower vulnerable groups like women and youths. It is currently accommodating 50 women from the poverty-stricken region of Paul & Virginie at Cite La Cure. The organisation is supporting and training them with professional, holistic, creative, and life skills development programme and courses such as personal grooming, sewing, Yoga and Zumba classes, macrame, pottery, pastry, cooking, fitness classes and informatics. Monthly talks on health, well-being, child abuse, nutrition and food preservation have been organised. It is looking forward to increase its support for the underprivileged women of Paul & Virginie at Cite La Cure, with additional courses such as embroidery, which will provide them re-skilling and further market opportunities. This initiative will enable these women to create micro-businesses that will improve their earnings and livelihoods.


f) Please indicate the organization?s prior engagement with GEF SGP (e.g. grantee, partner, etc). Yes/No: If yes, describe the nature of the involvement including involvement in specific projects and grants received.

No

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PART 2: PROJECT PROPOSAL

SECTION A: PROJECT FRAMEWORK

1. Project Summary
Please provide a brief summary of the project in one paragraph, including rationale and context, project objective and key expected results, include the target site and community(ies) involved.

Fam-Unie Foundation is a non-governmental organization, aiming at empowering a community of socio-economically deprived women, mainly from Rodrigues, living in extreme poverty in the underprivileged region of Paul & Virginie at Cite La Cure, stereotyped as Ti-Rodrigues. These women will be equipped with entrepreneurial skills; contributing to their personal development and encouraging them to become financially independent through capacity building programs like small-scale sustainable agriculture and artisan soap making under women community-based initiatives. These women have migrated to Mauritius with the hope of finding a better life and future. Today, they are finding themselves in a situation of intergenerational poverty, whereby poverty is passed down from one generation to the next. These women and their families reside in a ghetto and they are illegally occupying public and private lands. Many young women are unemployed. Some rely on slum livestock agriculture to support their livelihoods, but these women are not land owners, have limited resources, possess low agricultural information literacy, and scarce access to markets, which hinder their desire to scale up and create small-scale farmers? community enterprises. Furthermore, they are facing various socio-economic problems like deplorable housing states, poor sanitation, lack of employment opportunities, little access to basic public services, social exclusion, ethnic and gender-based discrimination at work, teenage pregnancy, and poor literacy. Fam-Unie Foundation is liasing with the Ministry of Housing and Land Use Planning to acquire a wasteland of 30 perches in order to implement a women community-based garden project. A capacity building program on agricultural skills for beginners and innovative farming solutions such as raised bed farming will be provided to these women so that they can meet pressing challenges and develop sustainable agriculture. These women will undergo a transformative change as they acquire sustainable farming practices, which maximise productivity and minimize environmental damage. Reskilling and upskilling initiatives will enable them to become competitive, develop a viable career path, and achieve personal economic independence. This project will help them ease their household cost burden as they can get their own fresh supply of vegetables requirements for free. However, they will be instrumental in helping other vulnerable families as they grow and sell fresh vegetables, fruits, aromatic, and medicinal plants, which will be put on sale at a preferential price to the local community, living in the same ghetto during weekly bazaars. This underprivileged group of women will also be provided a monthly stipend as an incentive but can also benefit from market-based and career opportunities upon the completion of their training program. They can take up part-time jobs as small-scale planters while also working in their community-based garden and earning a monthly salary. Increase in productivity will open new market opportunities and surplus vegetables can be supplied to wholesalers like Les Vergers de Labourdonnais. As this women community-based project and capacity development program becomes sustainable, it can be replicable for other vulnerable groups, and, more socio-economically deprived women will get the opportunity to be emancipated and become financially autonomous. Fam-Unie Foundation is also making provision to offer diversification opportunities to these socio-economically deprived women. The project consists of another capacity building program on the use of medicinal and aromatic plants to create value-added products such as hand and body soap bars for commercial use, which will be supplied to the Rogers group of hotels. Modern soap is made simply by mixing two ingredients, either oils or fats with lye. A facility will be constructed to accommodate the handmade soap making production. Five women with no knowledge of the process from the village of Paul & Virginie will be eligible to join the capacity building program. Soap recipes will be provided to craft soap bars. These women will develop employable and entrepreneurial skills and be entitled to a monthly stipend as an incentive.

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2. Project Justification and Baseline
Please describe the following:
? The challenges that the project intends to address in relation to global environmental and development issues.
? How the project relates and will be contributing to the SGP Country Programme Strategy
? How the project relates to other relevant programmes supported by government, GEF and other donors, and private sector.

This women community-based project addresses the need for sustainable livelihoods, food security, food safety, poverty reduction, social inclusion, productive employment, capacity building, and gender-equality. Sustainable agriculture is often interchangeably used with organic farming although the two ideas have subtle but significant differences. Sustainable agriculture focuses on improving the entire food and agricultural system by balancing production and consumption. It tackles environmental, economic and social issues related to agricultural systems. A sustainable farm may not be organic, and an organic farm may not be sustainable, although they may utilize similar farming techniques. Organic farming puts emphasis mainly on healthy and quality food production, which facilitates environmental preservation and soil enhancement. Critics of organic farming posit that this farming method is more labor intensive and requires greater management skill than a conventional farm. As the Economic Development Board states: ?Agriculture has been the bedrock of the Mauritius economy for decades.? Moreover, the World Health Organization recommends the intake of 400 g of fruits and vegetables daily to maintain good health. Fam-Unie Foundation will reclaim a wasteland and convert it into productive purposes like small-scale agriculture by a socio-economically deprived group of women from the village of Paul & Virginie at Cite La Cure for the benefit of a larger disadvantaged community, living in the same ghetto. This land will be transformed into a community-based garden using the principles of agroecology and agroforestry to create a multifunctional agricultural system, that provide a wide range of environmental, socio-cultural, and economic benefits. According to a UN report, agroecology can make the world?s food systems more resilient with its chemicals-free and traditional led principles. Agroforestry contributes to climate change mitigation by sequestering carbon in biomass and soils and reducing greenhouse emissions. This community-based garden will house tropical fruit trees such as banana trees, papaya trees, and breadfruit trees. These fruits can even be served as curries when raw. Fibreglass garden beds will be designed and implemented to facilitate farming techniques like mixed cropping, sequential cropping, and crop rotation systems, which enable the break down of survival and multiplication cycles of pests, diseases and weeds resulting in higher yields and maintenance of soil fertility. Several fruit-bearing vegetables, root vegetables, leafy greens, and stem vegetables will be cultivated according to either cool or warm season. Fruit-bearing vegetables such as cucumbers, chili, okra, eggplants, and, sweetcorn will be farmed. Root vegetables like carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic, beet, and shallots will also be cultivated. Leafy greens such as spinach, ?brèdes?, and, parsley will be planted. Herbs, which have a prominent place in the Mauritian cuisine like cilantro, thyme, and parsley will also be grown. A mandala garden, which offers efficient use of space will be created to accommodate aromatic and medicinal plants such as citronella, vetiver, aloe vera and rosemary. Traditional medicines constitute an alternative to allopathic treatments as they are most affordable for poor communities. Herbs will also be used to produce herbal soap bars depending on the preference and demand of our customers. A few beehives will also be added to the plantation for pollinator management and future production of organic honey. Thus, the whole destitute community of Cite La Cure will benefit from this farm to people concept, where vegetables, fruits and medicinal herbs are picked at peak freshness and put on sale.

The project aims at improving the socio-economic conditions of these women as it promotes decent work opportunities, eases their household financial burden, and provides them with income generating skills. It also facilitates the reskilling and upskilling of the women from the village of Paul & Virginie, who either have no agricultural background or are used to conventional farming, which contributes to global anthropogenic GHG emissions. Sustainable agricultural practices will enable these women to sustainably increase their income, adapt to the impacts of climate change and prevent GHG emission. These women will provide a constant supply of fresh vegetables, fruits and medicinal herbs to the larger disadvantaged community at Cite La Cure as they organise weekly bazaars for them. Likewise, the artisan soap start-up will empower another group of vulnerable women and strengthen their economic power to earn steady income. This project will support the development of sustainable livelihoods, enhance the participation of women in economic development, promote food inclusive systems and sustain job creation.

We need to foster productivity and tackle inequalities at the same time to create an inclusive society. The World Food Programme mentions that climate shocks, economic consequences of COVID-19, rising cost of reaching people in need and conflicts contribute to a ?seismic hunger crisis.? ?As 811 million people go to bed hungry every night, the number of those facing acute food insecurity has more than doubled - from 135 million to 276 million - since 2019. A total of 44 million people in 38 countries are teetering on the edge of famine.? Likewise, the World Bank (2022) claims that ?many countries are facing growing levels of food insecurity, reversing years of development gains, and threatening the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.? Besides, the U.N food chief has warned that the war in Ukraine has caused ?a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe?. The war has disrupted global food supply chain and driven-up prices that threaten the accessibility of agricultural commodities for the most vulnerable. According to a World Bank?s report, commodity prices will keep rising significantly over the next two years due to this war.

Therefore, it is imperative for small-island developing states like Mauritius to boost its resilience, become economically self-sufficient, and promote sustainable development. According to the ?subsistence allowance scheme? from the Ministry of Social Integration, Social Security and National security, ?the absolute poverty threshold is Rs 2720 per month for an adult and Rs 1360 per month for a child?. However, the challenge is to set up opportunities for those at the bottom of the income scale.

Scientists are constantly trying to find innovative farming methods that meet the 17 sustainability targets by 2030. Agricultural economists like Matim Qaim and Eva-Marie Meemken have pointed out that organic farming falls short with regard to one crucial feature like yield. ?Organic yields are on average up to 25 percent lower than conventional farming yields.? Organic produces usually entail a high price tag, not affordable to the poor. Fam-Unie Foundation is adopting context-specific farming approaches and cost saving solutions to fulfil its goals. Fibre-glass raised beds are weather-resistant and cost-saving as they don?t succumb to UV exposure and don?t need to be replaced every few years. Garden bed farming does not require expensive drainage system. Compost, mulches, manures and other soil conditioners can all go directly onto the top few inches of the soil without the need for backbreaking work. Mulches can be used for weed prevention. Crop rotation can lessen the need for pest control, reduce the spread of soil-borne disease, and avoid nutrients depletion in the soil. The organization will teach the vulnerable women from the village of Paul &Virginie how to use food waste and seaweeds that will be collected from hotels for composting. Raised beds is less labor-intensive and can bridge the gap between family responsibilities and career development path. Furthermore, these plants, which have therapeutic properties will be used in handcrafted soap bars production for hotels. For instance, aloe vera has soothing, moisturizing and regenerative qualities. Rosemary holds astringent, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties whereas vetiver contains regenerative, anti-aging, and nutritive qualities, essential to the skin. Its root can be used as a bath scrubber. Chopped herbs like rosemary can be added to soap recipes to get a scrub effect. Essential oils can be infused with herbs for therapeutic qualities.

This project supports local livelihoods and community empowerment through its effort to promote social inclusion of the socially deprived and marginalized community of women from Rodrigues, which is a constituent island of the Republic of Mauritius. It also addresses multiple sustainable development goals such as Goal 1, which is about eradicating poverty; Goal 2, which focuses on ending hunger and malnutrition; Goal 3, which emphasizes the need to promote good health and wellbeing; Goal 5, which champions gender equality to foster economic growth and development; Goal 15, which supports agriculture and food security. We believe this women community-based project, which incorporates two capacity building programs can be replicated for other vulnerable and poor women communities in other countries by different organizations.


3. Project Objectives, Results/Outputs, and Activities
Please describe the project framework and implementation plan by completing the table 1 below:
a) Primary objective: Proposed project should include environmental objective, along with development/livelihood objective as relevant.
b) Project results: Please describe measurable changes which will have occurred by the end of the project as a result of the planned intervention (e.g. XX hectares of community management conservation area established. XX community members is trained and improved on waste management).
c) Project Outputs and Activities: Please briefly describe what will be produced as project results and outputs. Please outline few activities for each output,
d) Project Implementation Plan and Time Frame: Please include timing of the activities, required reports, project reviews and monitoring activities.


Table 1: Project framework and Implementation Plan (Phase 1-Soap Making for livelihood)

Project Objective: Income Generating Project

Timing/Duration of Activity in Months
Project Framework Responsible
Party Indicator, including means of verification 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
Component/Output 1:
Set up of soap making production facility
Fam-Unie
Activity 1.1: Set up of soap making production facility
Fam-Unie Production facility set up and running
Activity 1.2: Training and follow-up sessions in handcrafted soap production Certified Soap Maker At least 5 women will be trained
Component 2/Output 2: Saponification

Fam-Unie
Activity 2.1: Saponification Fam-Unie At least 300 soap bars produced p/month
Activity 2.2: Packaging,
Sales and Marketing
Fam-Unie At least 300 soap bars wrapped and sold monthly
At least 5 women getting a minimum stipend of Rs 1500 per month
Monitoring and Evaluation
a. Mid-term review and reporting Fam-Unie
b. Final review and reporting Fam-Unie
c. Annual Review

Table 2: Project framework and Implementation Plan (Phase 2-Agriculture for food security and livelihood)

Project Objective: Income generating Project

Timing/Duration of Activity in Months
Project Framework Responsible
Party Indicator, including means of verification 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
Component/Output 1:
Set up of Farm Structure
Fam-Unie
Activity 1.1: Set up of farm
Agricultural Consultant Farm set up and running
Activity 1.2: Training in growing Techniques Agricultural Consultant At least 8 women will be trained
Component 2/Output 2: Sustainable Farming

Fam-Unie
Activity 2.1: Plantation of seedlings
Fam-Unie At least 10 perches of land will be cultivated
Activity 2.2: Growing and monitoring of vegetables, aromatic plants and medicinal herbs
Fam-Unie Crops seen growing
Activity 2.3: Sales and Distribution of Vegetables, fruits, aromatic herbs and medicinal plants Fam-Unie At least 25 kg of crops
harvested
At least 8 women getting a minimum stipend of Rs 1500 per month

Monitoring and Evaluation
d. Mid-term review and reporting Fam-Unie
e. Final review and reporting Fam-Unie
f. Annual Review


4. Community and Stakeholder Participation Plan
Please describe how the stakeholders and communities, including indigenous peoples where relevant, were and will be involved in: i) project planning and design: ii) project implementation and iii) project monitoring and evaluation. Please attach documentations as relevant.

Collaboration between stakeholders is key to fight absolute poverty, social injustice, food insecurity, and gender-inequality. Fam-Unie Foundation is already working with fifty women from the village of Paul & Virginie as it is offering them holistic, professional and life skills courses free of charge. During the sessions, the team has been able to discuss with these women and understand their needs and aspirations. Most of these women earn their livelihoods on subsistence farming while others remain unskilled and unemployed. However, those engaged in livestock farming are encroaching on private and public land, unfit for agriculture and keeping livestock in clandestine. They don?t possess any famer?s card and any land lease agreement to be entitled to government schemes, which can help them scale up and climb the social ladder. Fam-Unie Foundation will act as a social entrepreneur, which develops and funds solutions that address socio-economic issues faced by the poor and vulnerable women from the slums of Cite La Cure. It will provide the support, resources, tools, and, opportunities that will unlock the doors that these women need to achieve economic empowerment, and social integration.
Women should be fully integrated in the productive system in order to meet their expectations and to reach their full potential. These women from Rodrigues live in shacks and they can?t even afford and get access to basic services like water, gas, electricity, health care, and education. Some are facing psycho-social related issues like family problems, depression, anxiety disorder, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. Teenage pregnancy is a major issue in disadvantaged regions like Cite La Cure due to lack of information about sexual and reproductive health and rights, inadequate access to services tailored to young people and sexual violence. It usually leads to stigmatization, education interruption, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental disorders, financial stress and homelessness, and serious health risks for both the expecting mother and the unborn baby. These women from the village of Paul & Virginie want to cultivate vegetables, fruits, herbs, aromatic and medicinal plants to obtain a living. However, they have to depart from unsustainable agricultural systems and make way to agroecology. The concept of agroecology focuses on co-creation process, sharing of knowledge, use of natural resources, recycling of biomass and organic materials, reduce dependence on external inputs, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, women participation at community level, rebalancing tradition and modern food habits that promotes healthy food production and consumption, protection of ecosystem services, and responsible and effective governance to support the transition to sustainable food and agricultural systems. Therefore, these women should be assisted with appropriate training, knowledge, and skills. Small-scale agriculture today, should be viewed as multi-functional; blending traditional knowledge with scientific knowledge, adding value to farm, and minimizing environmental degradation. The organization will provide these women training, farming tools, equipment, seeds, plants, biofertilizers, and biopesticides as a startup. Artisanal soap making is also a fun, creative and profitable activity, which can provide an income source to another vulnerable group of women from Cite La Cure. It requires specific skills, which can be learnt from scratch. Minimum resources like kitchen utensils are mostly used in handcrafted soap making. Hotel establishments represent a viable market for hand and body soap bars, especially following the advent of COVID-19. Small hand and body soap bars are largely used in hotel rooms, offering a personal grooming experience and branding moment.
Fam-Unie Foundation is liaising with the Food and Agricultural Research Council (FARC), the Food and Agricultural Research Extension Unit (FAREI), the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Mauritius (FOA), SME Mauritius Ltd, and Eco Sud to design and implement the capacity building program on small-scale sustainable agriculture. Cite La cure offers ideal conditions for agriculture due to its moderate temperatures and adequate precipitation. A survey will be conducted to identify the best location to place the garden beds for even exposure to sunlight, which maximizes the chances of uniform crop. A soil test will evaluate the current fertility and health of the soil. The course structure will be designed to enable participants with little to no farming experience become fully capable small-scale farmers in two years. It will include lectures and first-hand training skills required for small-scale farmers. The training programme will be delivered on a part-time basis so that the participants can balance their household responsibilities, slum agriculture, and other personal development activities with their professional goals. It will be jointly delivered by an Agricultural Consultant, Annick Corroy (Business Management Skills) and Chantal Espitalier- Noel (Entrepreneurial Skills)
The core components that will be covered are:

1. Introduction to sustainable agriculture-soil makeup, raised bed farming, seeding techniques, nursery, modern irrigation techniques, drainage, application of bio-fertilizer, bio-pesticides, and sustainability.

2. Classification of crops-variety- species, vegetables or garden crops, condiments crops, root and tuber crops, pulses or grain legumes, fodder crops (maize), and perennial crops.

3. Soil and plant nutrition- soil constituents, soil colour, soil depth, soil texture, soil organic matter, and, soil fertility.

4. Composting- compost ingredients (nitrogen, carbon, air and water), location, maintaining moisture, aeration, and temperature.

5. Weed, pest, and disease management-clean tillage, mulch tillage, application of bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides.

6. Farm management-availability of seeds, biofertilizers, irrigation potential, drainage facility, irrigation system, risk factors, staffing and organization plans, seasonal crop production planning, crop rotation, market facilities, market demand for produce, and storage facility.

7. Harvesting and storage methods-harvesting, handling, grading, packaging, cooling, and storage.

8. Occupational Health and Safety of Farmers-safe handling of tools and equipment, first aid kit availability, and basic measures to manage weeds, disease and pest problems.

9. Agriculture Sales and Marketing-develop effective planning sales methods, create value propositions and solutions, establish better sales opening skills to build strong and productive customer relationship, role play exercises, health benefits of vegetables, use of traditional medicines, and direct marketing.

10. Farm Management Busines Skills- create a resilient farm, production and operation management skills, organizational skills, time management planning, establish pricing strategies, cash flow budgeting, inventory, general business management skills, interpersonal skills, and risk management.

The project manager will keep a plan of the necessary tasks and ensure that the inputs are applied at the right time based on the calendar operations throughout the year. Seasonal vegetables and time of cultivation will be identified according to summer, dry, and rainy seasons. Seedlings should also be ready for succession planting to fill the space left by harvested crops with a new crop to maximize harvest and ensure an all-year-round productive garden. A maximum of eight women from the village of Paul & Virginie will benefit from this capacity building program and a monthly stipend will be provided to each one of them. The project will be implemented over a period of two years and will be supervised by the project manager in collaboration with the GEF SGP. It will operate in a transparent, accountable and participatory manner in collaboration with UNDP GEF SGP for the timeliness and effectiveness of all the activities carried out, as well as use of funds.

The second part of the project consists of equipping the women from the village of Paul & Virginie with the know-how to craft soap bars. Two beneficiaries will be offered a training course by an expert teacher. They will be introduced to the traditional cold method process. The participants will be acquainted with the ingredients used in soap making and safety guidelines. They will learn how to formulate their soap recipe to suit their needs. Demonstrations and multiple hands-on making opportunities will be provided. Molding, curing, cutting, storing and packaging tutorials will also be delivered. The trainees will be also entitled to post-training follow-up sessions in order to assist them with further support that will strengthen their skills acquired. This will also enable to check milestones and benchmarks in action plan are being met. Business management skills and entrepreneurial skills will also be taught throughout this programme by Annick Corroy and Chantal Espitalier-Noel. The project manager will supervise and manage the second part of the project, which will be also implemented over a period of two years.

5. Inclusion ?Women, Indigenous Peoples, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities:
Please describe how the project takes into consideration:
? The roles and needs of both men and women (with a special focus on the needs of women),
? Other social inclusion groups (indigenous peoples, youths and persons with disabilities), and
? How this would be reflected in the budget, results and benefits of the project.

Small-scale sustainable agriculture and handcrafted soap making can be powerful mechanism towards personal growth, poverty and hunger reduction, and financial freedom. Empowering women in agriculture and artisanal are direct ways to address gender-gap in labour force participation and support the socio-economic needs of vulnerable groups of women. NGOs like Fam-Unie Foundation contribute to strengthening the multiple roles women experience in society and improve their resilience. In search of a home and out of sheer helplessness, the socio-economically deprived community of women from Rodrigues, are illegitimately occupying unfit houses for human habitation on public and private lands. The area is over-crowded with other families living in absolute poverty, which is creating a situation of intergenerational poverty. The community of women from Cite La Cure faces intersectional discrimination, based on their ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic status; which takes place when two or multiple grounds operate simultaneously and act in an inseparable manner, producing distinct and specific forms of discrimination. Stereotyped as ?slum dwellers?, marginalized, and socially excluded, these women are being denied significant roles and participation in society. Stigmatization of teenage motherhood by parents, teachers, fellow students and immediate society are major causes for discontinuing schools, which lead to the deprivation of career and development opportunities. Structural discrimination limits opportunities and resources of the underprivileged. Supportive actions from NGOs like Fam-Unie Foundation help to fight societal roadblocks, which dehumanize women and accentuate segregation, endemic poverty, and social injustice.

This women community-based sustainable garden project will have a social multiplier effect on other poor and vulnerable families living in the same ghetto at Cite La Cure. Increasing vegetable and fruits intake can have positive impacts on mental health and wellbeing. Aromatic plants and medicinal herbs are much more affordable and can provide home remedy. Vegetables and fruits provide the body with key essential nutrients and antioxidants. While fresh vegetables, fruits, aromatic, and medicinal herbs are sold at a preferential price to other poor and needy people at Cite La Cure in weekly markets, these women can develop networking and trust. The community of women from the village of Paul & Virginie can also share their knowledge and skills with other peer groups who also depend on subsistence farming to earn their livelihoods. Herbs will be used to produce handcrafted soap bars, which are highly demanded by hotels. All these women need holistic support, whereby they can engage with other women, express themselves, and, support each other emotionally and mentally. As these women embark on this transformative journey together, they will develop positive thinking, boost their self-esteem, and realize that they can all be active agents in society.
Fam-Unie Foundation is acting as a support system enabling the vulnerable and poor community of women from the village of Paul & Virginie to be advocates for themselves. Both capacity building programs have been tailored and adapted to the needs and realities that offer these socio-economically deprived community of women participation in project design and implementation. Food and personal hygiene are both important to keep the body healthy and clean. The organization will be funding all the infrastructural support, human capital, activities, tools, materials and equipment required to fulfil its mission. Eight beneficiaries will be actively involved in their community-based garden every day on a part-time basis to acquire hands-on experience. They will also be rotating tasks to enable each one of them to get sufficient exposure to a wide range of activities and learn new skills. Customizable vegetable baskets will also be sold to suit the family needs and budget. The income generated from the sales of vegetables, fruits, aromatic plants, and medicinal herbs will be reinvested into the organization to cover the operational expenses and earmarked to finance labour cost during year 3 when the community-based garden becomes fully operational and productive. Likewise, another group of five beneficiaries engaged in handcrafted soap making will be able to unleash their creative potential and develop their own product line with particular size, shape, color and fragrance, which will be supplied to the Rogers group of hotels. These women will be provided a monthly stipend to support their initiatives. The proceeds from the sales of soap bars will be reinvested into the organisation in terms of salary, overheads, additional equipment, and raw materials to sustain the project.

Upon the completion of their training programs, the women from the village of Paul & Virginie will be equipped with relevant skills, knowledge, and competencies which will support them in making the transition towards sustainable practices. The first group can work as small-scale farmers in the community-based sustainable garden on a part-time basis at Cite La Cure and/or take up new jobs as small-scale planters in other organizations. The second group will get the opportunity to become professional soapers, who can supply an entire hotel with hand and body soap bars. They will produce value-added products priced competitively, earn a monthly salary and also work half-day to maintain a healthy-work life balance.
6. Impact ? Sustainability, Scale-up and Replication:
Please describe sustainability of the project impact in a longer term, both environmentally and socio-economically. Outline possible steps to be taken before, during, and at project completion to ensure that the project impact will continue for many years after the project ends (i.e. who will manage the continuation of the activities/outcome, how will it be financed, etc).

This women community-based project will be sustainable as its effects are multiplied through these capacity building programs. Capacity building can be viewed as both a determinant of sustainability and an outcome of it. Sustainability is building capacity and supporting the community to use the skills, knowledge, and techniques gained to earn their livelihoods. When the competencies required to engage in sustainable agriculture and soap making are acquired by the vulnerable women from Cite La Cure and embedded in the community, sustainability will be achieved.

Other than degrading the soil quality, use of pesticide has been linked to many human diseases such as Alzheimer, Parkinson, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, asthma, bronchitis, infertility, birth defects, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, diabetes, and obesity, respiratory diseases, organ diseases and system failures. As the women from Cite La Cure learn sustainable farming practices, they will contribute to the growth of nutritious and healthy food, protect the environment and their own health, and bring up their living standard. These women will become agents of change as they will be able to grow, sell, and market value-added produces, which are safe, delicious, and nutritious. Similarly, artisan soap making is a sustainable enterprise as soap bars are hygienic skin care products used mainly for cleansing purposes, but it can also provide additional benefits such as hydration, perfume and antimicrobial activity. Furthermore, creating soap bars help to ditch plastic bottles in favour of minimal packaging, like paper wrapping.

The women from the village of Paul & Virginie will be able to apply sustainable farming methods and practices that are economically viable, environmentally sound and protect public health. At the completion of the project, these women will be able to prepare the soil, start a nursery, transplant seedlings, make organic compost, use proper bio-pesticide and bio-fertilizer application, learn about irrigation and drainage techniques, control pests and diseases through ecologically based management practices, and get acquainted with harvesting and storage methods. They will be able to cultivate vegetables, fruits, aromatic and medicinal plants on their own in their community-based sustainable garden. These women will not only get free and fresh vegetables for their own consumption but also learn to use vegetable scraps to make compost for their personal use. They can employ recycling methods like crop waste or manure as fertilizers that can help enrich the soil at their own place and also share their new skills and new knowledge with their families and peer groups.

During weekly bazaars, these women will sell fresh vegetables, fruits, aromatic, and medicinal plants at a preferential price to support other vulnerable households living in absolute poverty at Cite La Cure. Surplus vegetables will be sold to wholesalers like Les Vergers de Labourdonnais. The revenue will be reinvested into the organization to finance the operating expenses of the organization. Fifty percent of the sales revenue generated will be earmarked to pay the salary of these women farmers after the completion of the project. They will be able to work on a part-time basis in the community-based sustainable garden and get an additional source of income other than their livestock farming revenue.

The second batch of underprivileged women from the village of Paul & Virginie will be eligible to another capacity development program, where they will learn to use medicinal and aromatic plants to create hand and body soap bars that will be distributed to the Rogers group of hotels. They will be able to develop their own product line and create a microenterprise. Fam-Unie Foundation will share its success stories and activities on social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube as an outreach, whereby information can be spread through word of mouth to other socio-economically deprived women looking for opportunities to become financially independent. Subsequently, these same capacity building programs can be reproduced to lift other poor and vulnerable groups at Cite La Cure out of poverty.

7. Innovation
Please describe innovative aspects of the project. This may include new way of thinking, new form of organizing resources, new ways to connect within community, improvements of existing product/service/delivery process, original product/service/model of delivery, and fueling local action and organizing as groups.

Fam-Unie Foundation is bringing an innovative concept in the region of Cite La Cure, which unlocks the potential of ?slum dwellers? and transforms them into micro-entrepreneurs. It makes provision for technical, institutional and social innovation. Innovation takes place through social interaction and is cumulative in nature, as individuals and communities build off one another and strategically adapt new tools and techniques to suit their particular circumstances.
The project brings several innovative aspects such as providing the marginalized and segregated community of women from Rodrigues, opportunities and competencies to grow vegetables, fruits, medicinal, and aromatic plants using the synergy of agroecology and agroforestry. Permanent garden beds made from fiberglass can also support sustainable agriculture as they stay in place permanently or for many seasons. Raised beds are agricultural farming techniques of constructing freestanding beds above the existing level of the soil. It offers multiple benefits, which enhance farm productivity and sustainability such as extending the growing season, reducing growth of weeds, solving soil problems, preventing soil compacting and plant damage, allowing better drainage, and enabling easier soil amendments.
Furthermore, the organization acts an innovation intermediary as it facilitates knowledge and know-how sharing through closer cooperation and interaction among a segregated group of women, which will provide them access to market-based opportunities and financial freedom. These women will have an exposure to agricultural management practices and learn to market their fresh produces as they sell them to other affected communities living in the same ghetto.
Handcrafted soap venture is also an innovative idea, which is productive and profitable. It offers huge creative potential and earning opportunities for the underprivileged women at Cite La Cure. The operation can take place with low capital investment and manpower. Any soap maker can create her own soap recipe according to her needs and market demand. These women will be able to craft unique skin care products, playing with particular ingredients, scents and textures. They will get the chance to develop their own product line and establish positive relationship with their customers.
Fam-Unie Foundation is also generating innovative solutions that go beyond typical NGO capabilities in order to meet the scale of global challenges, which are necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development goals. It is adapting the capacity development program and the community-based garden to the needs of the group of women from the village of Paul & Virginie and to the whole community of Cite La Cure, who live in absolute poverty as the organization focuses on the urgency to promote sustainable livelihoods, productive employment, food security, food safety, poverty reduction, social inclusion, and gender-equality. The organization is also making more innovative efforts as it will offer these women new opportunities where they will learn how to use processed medicinal and aromatic plants to craft skin care products like soap bars. A new capacity development program will be tailored and implemented to provide economic opportunities to the women from the village of Paul & Virginie so that they can create micro-businesses.

8. Knowledge Management
Please describe the plan to capture, share and disseminate the knowledge, lessons learned, and good practices gained through the implementation of the project. Please specify the knowledge products to be generated by this project.

Fam-Unie Foundation is creating an enabling environment by acting like a knowledge builder, broker and facilitator through effective efforts to address common global challenges such as poverty eradication, ending hunger, social exclusion, food insecurity, promoting gender equality, decent job creation, and supporting sustainable livelihoods. It is consulting the Food and Agricultural Research Council (FARC), the Food and Agricultural Research Extension Unit (FAREI), the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Mauritius (FOA), SME Mauritius Ltd, Eco Sud, Rogers Capital, Divyom Enterprises and the Body Bar to implement two sustainable capacity building programs, which respond to the needs and aspirations of the vulnerable and poor women from the village of Paul & Virginie. These training programs have the potential for long term positive impacts and can even be replicated at a large scale for other groups and/or in another country. They focus on experiential learning, evidence-based success stories, and the actual context of the participants.
The capacity building program in small-scale agriculture consists of a combination of lectures, group work and hands-on activities at the farming site. A maximum of eight women from the village of Paul & Virginie will be registered and trained on a part-time basis by an Agricultural Consultant, Annick Corroy, and Chantal Espitalier-Noel over a period of 24 months. Every day, all the participants will get access to the community-based garden at their own convenient time on a shift system to develop competency. They will also get the chance to rotate tasks in order to develop agricultural proficiency. The overall activities will be supervised by the project manager. A report will be provided at the completion of this women community-based project so that knowledge, lessons learned, and good practices are readily available as solutions to other communities and countries.

The capacity development programme in artisan soap making will educate and empower another disadvantaged group from the village of Paul & Virginie at Cite La Cure. Skills and knowledge will be transferred to the five beneficiaries to enable them develop competencies and proficiency. The programme includes tutorials, demonstrations, multiple-hands on training, enterprise budgeting and marketing by an expert on soap making. A professional soap maker will also do post-training follow-up sessions over a period of two years to provide the participants an opportunity to discuss their experiences. Social learning will connect the beneficiaries to the trainer so that they can discuss and share stories. Refresher programs can also improve recall and include problem solving sessions.

SECTION B: PROJECT RISKS, MONITORING & EVALUATION

1. Project Risks
Please describe major risk factors that could result in the project not producing the expected results. These should include both internal factors (e.g. technology involved fails to work as projected) and external factors (e.g. climate change impacts, political and economic situation, etc). Please also propose risk mitigation measures to address the potential risks.

Table 3- Risks and Mitigation Measures (Soap Making for livelihood)

Internal and External Risks Possible mitigation measures
1 Absenteeism Reward good attendance
2 Participants drop out from the course Provide flexible training schedules to beneficiaries
Provide refresher courses if any beneficiary has been replaced
3 Lye (Sodium Hydroxide) can cause chemical burns Follow safety procedures and use proper safety equipment
Work near a source of running water and in a ventilated area
4 Creating products which have no market demand Primary market has already been identified. Other markets will be identified and a product line created accordingly for that niche.

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Table 4: Risks and Mitigation Measures (Agriculture for food security and livelihood)

Internal and External Risks Possible mitigation measures
1 Pest and disease incidence Natural remedies of plant-based practices will be used to counteract these incidences
2 Climate-Change Related Disasters (flood, Cyclones, Drought) Irrigation system will be adapted to counter temperature variation, ridge tillage technique will increase infiltration and reduce runoff, use of agroforestry will fight wind and soil erosion, and mulching and water conservation practices will be adopted
3 Theft Surveillance system will be put in place
4 Participants drop out from the course Develop a flexible training schedule in line with the participants? working requirements and family responsibilities



2. Monitoring & Evaluation Plan and Indicators (please consult with the NC/NSC)
a. Project monitoring schedule
Please identify annual, mid-term, and final monitoring schedule and incorporate in the Project Framework and Implementation Plan (table 1 above).

The annual, mid-term, and final monitoring schedules have been incorporated in the Project Framework and Implementation Plan

b. Project indicators
Please fill in Annex 1 ? this is a requirement for all projects.
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SECTION C: PROJECT BUDGET
(Please seek support from NC/NSC as needed)

1. Project Budget

Table 5: Project Budget (in local currency) -Phase 1(Soap Making for livelihood)

Expenditure Category UNDP Grant (MUR) Cofinance cash from community, donor, etc. add as many columns as necessary Cofinance in-kind from community, donor, etc. add as many columns as necessary (MUR)
1. Personnel / Labor (please provide detailed breakdown) 324,000/- 1,360,000/-
2. Equipment / Materials (please provide detailed breakdown) 1,173,520/-
3. Training / Workshops/ Seminars / Travel (please provide detailed breakdown) 50,000/-
4. Expenses (please provide detailed breakdown) 231,400/-
5. Sub-total
6. Contingency (up to 10% of total)
Total Project Cost 1,778,920/- 1,360,000/-

Table 6: Project Budget (in local currency) -Phase 2 (Agriculture for food security and livelihood)

Expenditure Category SGP Grant (MUR) Cofinance cash from community, donor, etc. add as many columns as necessary Cofinance in-kind from community, donor, etc. add as many columns as necessary (MUR)
1. Personnel / Labor (please provide detailed breakdown) 432,000/- 1,090,000
2. Equipment / Materials (please provide detailed breakdown) 532,626/-
3. Training / Workshops/ Seminars / Travel (please provide detailed breakdown)
4. Expenses (please provide detailed breakdown) 45,000/-
5. Sub-total
6. Contingency (up to 10% of total)
Total Project Cost 1,009,626/- 1,090,000/-

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Organization Contributions-Phase 1(Soap Making for livelihood)

Sources of Contribution Type Value (MUR)
Soap Production Facility, Storage & Equipment
( Kitchen, Sink, Table, Shelves, Chairs & Toilet) In Kind 700,000
Professional Skills
(Chantal Espitalier-Noel & Annick Corroy) In Kind 150,000
Professional Contacts
(Marketing, Distribution & Communication) In Kind 50,000
Other Costs
(Vehicles & Driver) In Kind 100,000
Total 1,000,000


Organization Contributions-Phase 2 (Agriculture for food security and livelihood)

Sources of Contribution Type Value (MUR)
Infrastructure & Equipment
(Office, Kitchen, Oven, Toilet, Whiteboard, Chairs) In Kind 500,000
Professional Skills
(Chantal Espitalier-Noel & Annick Corroy) In Kind 150,000
Professional Contacts
(Marketing, Distribution & Communication) In Kind 50,000
Beehives In Kind 50,000
Other Costs (Vehicles & Driver) In Kind 100,000
Total 850,000

EXPENDITURE CATEGORY Details (UNDP BUDGET)
Unit Total
( MUR)
A. Personnel Stipend for registered participants
(Rs 3500 X 3 X 24 months=252,000)
(Rs 1500 X 2 X 24 months=72,000)
5 324,000
Soap Consultant 1 50,000
B. Equipment/ Materials Safety Equipment-goggles, gloves, apron & masks 7,000
Surveillance Cameras (mandala garden) 6,520
Fencing + Gate (mandala garden) 75,000
Stainless steel pot, stainless steel saucepan, measuring spoons, digital scale, thermometer, silicone spatulas, mixing spoon and spatulas, electric stick blender, microwave, rubbing alcohol, knife, cutting board, soap molds, lining paper, whisks 100,000
Packaging 100,000
Oil Fragrances, Lye, Coconut oil, Olive Oil, Shea Butter, Tints, etc 650,000
Mandala Garden (Seeds, soil, nursery & Equipment) 210,000
Dehumidifier 25,000
C. Expenses Gas 2,400
Accounting Cost (25,000 X 8) months 200,000
Petrol 24,000
JCB-excavation work 5,000
TOTAL COST 1,778,920
Budget Details-Phase 1(Soap Making for livelihood)


Budget Details-Phase 2 (Agriculture for food security and livelihood)


EXPENDITURE CATEGORY Details (UNDP SGP BUDGET)
Unit Total
( MUR)
A. Personnel Stipend for registered participants
(Rs 3500 X 3 X 24 months=252,000)
(Rs 1500 X 5 X 24 months=180,000)
8 432,000
B. Equipment/ Materials Fiberglass garden beds 100,000
Nursery, Seeds, Plants, Soil, biopesticide, biofertilizer,
Irrigation system, Drainage System, Composter 207,626
Baskets, hoes, forks, gloves, hats 20,000
Storage Facilities 15,000
Fencing & Gate 180,000
Surveillance Cameras 10,000
C. Expenses Operating Expenses 30,000
JCB Excavation Work 15,000
TOTAL COST 1,009,626
2.Cofinancing
Table 7: Cofinancing-Phase 1(Soap Making for livelihood)

Sources of Contribution Cash cofinance In-kind Cofinance (MUR) Cofinance is Committed or Projected* Amount (MUR)
Community
Proposed organization 1,000,000 Committed 1,000,000
Donor (please specify)
MCB lease of land

360,000
Committed
360,000
Local government
Total 1,360,000/- 1,360,000/-









Table 8: Cofinancing-Phase 2(Agriculture for food security and livelihood)

Sources of Contribution Cash cofinance In-kind Cofinance (MUR) Cofinance is Committed or Projected* Amount (MUR)
Community
Proposed organization 850,000 Committed 850,000
Donor (please specify)
Local government
(Lease of 30 perches of land)

240,000
Earmarked
240,000
Total 1,090,000/- 1,090,000/-


ANNEX 1: INDICATORS

GEF SGP OP7 Project Indicators (please refer to M&E guidelines for details)
All SGP project will align with at least one or more of the below global environmental indicators. The SGP priorities are aligned to that of the GEF-7 Programming Directions Paper and its outcomes to meet the GEF-7 targets. To capture global environmental benefits, in GEF-7 SGP is aligned with 6 of the 11 GEF-7 core indicators.

SMALL GRANTS PROGRAMME INDICATORS FOR GEF-7
PROJECT LEVEL INDICATORS
MANDATORY Global Environmental Indicators: at least one indicator and no more than three (aligned with GEF 7 Core Indicators) Type
1 Marine protected areas under improved management effectiveness (hectares)


Mandatory: A given project can be linked to at a minimum one indicator; and at most three of these GEF-7 core and sub-indicators
3.1 Area of degraded agricultural/range/protected/forest lands restored (hectares)
4.1 Area of landscapes under improved management to benefit biodiversity (hectares)
4.3 Area of landscapes under sustainable land management in production systems (hectares)
5 Area of marine habitat under improved practices to benefit biodiversity (hectares; excluding protected areas)
9 Solid and liquid Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and POPs containing materials and products removed or disposed) (indicator 9.6 which is contextual)
11 Number of direct beneficiaries disaggregated by gender as co-benefit of GEF investment (this is also put below under mandatory socio-economic indicators)
MANDATORY: Socio- Economic Benefit Indicators Type
1 Number of direct beneficiaries with improved livelihoods and well-being Mandatory 13(8+5)
2 Number of direct beneficiaries benefitting from SGP intervention Mandatory 13
3 Breakdown number of beneficiaries reached by social inclusion groups (using 0 in case a category not applicable):
? Number of Women; Mandatory 13
? Number of Indigenous Peoples; As relevant
? Number of Youth; As relevant 6
? Number of Persons with Disability As relevant
4 Is the project tagged (for expected contribution at project commitment stage/ report on results in final report) to closing gender gaps in one or more of the following categories (check all applicable)? As relevant
? contributing to equal access to and control of natural resources of women and men
? improving the participation and decision-making of women in natural resource governance Yes
? targeting socio-economic benefits and services for women Yes
4 Does the project include sex-disaggregated and gender sensitive indicators (at commitment stage) As relevant

PROJECT LEVEL INDICATORS
AS RELEVANT/OPTIONAL: Additional Indicators
(These include both Global Environmental Benefit and Socio- Economic Benefit indicators) Type
SGP projects are multi- focal. Checkmark focal area strategy used (biodiversity, climate change mitigation/ adaptation, land degradation, sustainable forest management, international waters, chemicals and waste) Due to multi-focal nature of SGP interventions, projects can select from all indicators across all focal areas while highlighting the focal area that will be their primary strategy.
1 Names and Number of target landscapes/seascapes under improved community conservation and sustainable use BD

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While primary focal areas for each indicator area listed, please note irrespective of focal area selected, a project can choose from any of these indicators to be linked to in case of multifocal and integrated results. Please note these are optional are optional in nature.


































While primary focal areas for each indicator area listed, please note irrespective of focal area selected, a project can choose from any of these indicators to be linked to in case of multifocal and integrated results. Please note these are optional are optional in nature.



2 Number of Protected Areas (PAs) BD
3 Number of ICCAs; Hectares of ICCAs BD
4 Number of sustainably produced biodiversity and agrobiodiversity products BD
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5 Number of significant species with maintained or improved conservation status BD
6 Number of community members with improved actions and practices on agriculture, land and water management LD
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7 Number of new or sustained farmer leaders adopting and demonstrating improved agriculture and agroecological practices. LD
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8 Number of new or sustained farmer groups or networks, advocating and disseminating improved agriculture approaches and practices. LD
9 Number of projects working on: renewable energy (biomass, hydro, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, other); energy efficiency, sustainable transport; and conservation/ enhancement of carbon stocks. CC
10 Number of low carbon typologies that are community-oriented and locally adapted CC
11 Number of households achieving energy access and co-benefits (such as, ecosystem effects, income, health and others) CC
12 Area of Forests and non-forest lands with restoration and enhancement of carbon stocks initiated through completed projects (hectares)
13 Number of projects working on (check mark categories applicable): awareness and outreach solid waste managemen