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Promoting Landscape Restoration, Agroforestry, Livestock and Ecosystem Management for Sustainable Food Systems, Income Generation and Dignified Livelihoods

This proposed project is specifically designed to strengthen community participation and contributions to improve sustainable forest landscape restoration, forest management and improve management of natural forests in Bargbewe chiefdom in Bo districts through promoting agroforestry initiatives, build up community forest governance frameworks, and promote better understanding of landscape restoration and forest governance approaches. This project intervention seeks to enhance food security and resilience of targeted farming communities through climate smart agricultural schemes streamlined with post harvesting processing, value addition and biodiversity conservation co-benefits. Key project interventions will include planting of 30,000 assorted economic and ecological trees on depleted forest landscape to promote afforest and conservation of forest natural biodiversity, extending capacity building training and awareness raising campaigns on sustainable forest governance and landscape management, strengthen the capacity of smallholders farmers (both technical and material capacity) that will promote the engagement of smallholder farmers in climate resilient agricultural productivity, post-harvest processing and value addition. Support the construction of grain stores, drying floors, seed banks and agro-processing centers to promote local seeds multiplication, food sufficiency and food security. However, this project intervention will also seek to support local farmers with tools, materials, technologies, machines and equipment that will promote their engagement in post-harvest processing and value chain agricultural productivity. Project overall goal is to promote landscape restoration, and sustainable forest management practices from improved food production and ecosystem services. This project intervention has 5 main components viz, component 1 (Improving community knowledge and response to governance of forest resources ),component 2( Enhancing food sufficiency and food security through climate resilient agricultural practices),component3( promote afforestation of depleted forest landscapes for biodiversity conservation),component 4(promote the participation, contribution and benefits of smallholder farmers in post/harvest processing and value chain agricultural productivity) and component 5( Strengthening coordination collaboration and networking for effective delivery of community forest governance initiatives) Key expected results including 300 hectares of land areas have adopted sustainable land management practices due to project intervention,300 hectares of previously depleted lands are afforested and restored for agricultural production,400 hectares of forest lands are brought under sustainable forest governance and Green Gas Emissions are mitigated in targeted landscapes, 100 local farmers are engaged in post-harvest processing and value chain agricultural productivity, 10 project targeted communities are engaged in intensive food sufficiency and food security drives driven by climate resilient agricultural initiatives. Food sufficiency and food security drives are enhanced and sustained in 10 project target communities
Conclusively, this proposed project intervention supports and compliment several government policies, plans and strategies that focus on food sufficiency, food security, biodiversity conservation, economic development, and ecosystem and forest landscape restoration. This project intervention also support the goal and objectives of Sierra Leone National Determined Contribution, and Sierra Leone medium Term National Development Plan 2018 -2023

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Serve Sierra Leone

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)

Grant Amount:

US$ 20,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 7,562.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 92,209.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/LD/1/11/2022/35

Start Date:

12/2022

End Date:

12/2023

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Policy Impact

-Project Activities made provision for the conduction of 4 weeks policy literacy and analysis Sierra Leone Forest Management Policy of 2014, Sierra Leone Biodiversity Policy of 2016, National Protected Area Policy of 2003, the Sierra Leone Environmental Protection Policy 2009 and The Goals, aims and policy objectives of the Ministry of Environments, targeting and benefitting 100 stakeholders drawn from 20 beneficiary communities. This policy literacy will increase the awareness and knowledge of community stakeholders and indigenous people about the existence of these policies and the provisions contained therein. Improved community awareness about these policies will also improve community participation in supporting the implementation of these policies at community levels.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Best management practices, success stories, challenges, methodologies, techniques, strategies and lessons learnt during the implementation of this project will be shared with other CSOs,local and other international partners in Sierra Leone development that are working in agro-ecology, organic farming, climate smart agriculture, climate smart-agro ecology, climate resilient agriculture and afforestation programs for replication. Project innovative approach like inclusion of environmental conservation laws within customary systems and inclusion of gender equality, youth, children and disability rights in environmental conservation programs will set the stage for new learning. Conclusively, project outcomes will also be shared with local policy makers as a means to facilitate informed policy making so that project outcomes can be integrated into broader strategies and multi-sectorial work.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous people in the beneficiary communities will be incorporated to deliver the following, all project related sensitization and awareness raising activities shall be placed in the hands of indigenous people and their local language shall be used and the very indigenous people shall take the lead to execute same

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Project interventions will introduce 200 ha of forest plantations that will act as carbon sinks, whilst expected improvement in the management of land or forest areas contributing to emission reductions. Project interventions will introduce 200 ha of forest plantations that will act as carbon sinks, whilst expected improvement in the management of land or forest areas contributing to emission reductions

Capacity - Building Component

SERVE SL currently has 9 permanent staff (men=5, and women =4) 4 per timer staff (men=women) and 12 volunteers (women =8 and men4). Three of SERVE Sierra Leoe's permanent staff have various qualifications ranging from Agricultural and Environmental Science, community development, project management, accounting and finance, economics, sociology and to human resource management. The organization is capable of implementing the project.

Notable Community Participation

The organization has previously worked with the beneficiary communities and therefore has had previous contacts with both the administrative, local stakeholders and youth groups (both abled and disabled) working and residing in these communities. The initial steps taken in planning for this project was to get in touch with, local stakeholders and youth groups (both abled and disabled) in the project beneficiary communities. Through this initial contacts with local stakeholders and youth groups ( both abled and disabled),SERVE SIERRA LEONE was able to hold consultations and discussions with local stakeholders and youth groups ( both abled and disabled)on different issues like climate change, deforestation and causes of environmental degradation. local stakeholders and youth groups ( both abled and disabled)were given the required spaces and the opportunity to come forward to explain pertinent issues affecting the environment and the impact deforestation, biodiversity loss and climate change had on their environment, social and economic progress

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The programme will include a strong knowledge management component to ensure that information about the project, experiences and lessons learnt will be shared among all relevant stakeholders. The experiences so derived will be scaled up/replicated in other parts of the country. A specific learning and knowledge sharing strategy will be designed focusing on the knowledge needs of key project stakeholders, beneficiaries and beneficiaries at community level on climate smart agriculture. The knowledge management of this project will also incorporate Indigenous Ideas, disability concerns and climate resilience livelihoods in Forest Management. Indigenous people have been using traditional knowledge and practices that have led to sustainable Forest management in many communities. This proves beyond reasonable doubts that indigenous people therefore are blessed with the ideas that will support trees planting and afforestation projects to survive and thrive

Gender Focus

The project will follow an inclusive approach, applying affirmative action in favor of women, youth, persons with disabilities, and vulnerable groups in proposed beneficiary communities where local practices tend to exclude them from decision-making and socio-economic opportunities. Women in the context of this proposal are more vulnerable than their male counterparts. The project aims to deliberately target women, in both male-headed households and female headed households, to increase their resilience. This project affirmative action will also ensure the equal participation and benefit of women and girls in all project activities and facilities. Towards this end, at least 50% of project direct beneficiaries who are present in farmer groups/cooperatives/water user association decision-making bodies will be women respectively.

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Indicators

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 30

Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 540

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 200

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