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Conserving and Utilizing the Environment Effectively

The project intends to address the challenge of increased timber mining and cutting down of trees without any afforestation effort. There are increased gold mining activities being carried out by the community people and the gold mining companies who, in most cases, abandon the degraded soil without any means of replenishing it. Harvesting of forest trees for firewood, charcoal and timber production for various purposes has been indiscriminate because these actors are ignorant with little or no knowledge regarding its after effect. The current pace of these cutting down of trees for different purpose is highly unsustainable and a major driver of deforestation. This relates to global biodiversity loss, wildlife extinction of animal species, habitat loss, and increase in global warming, increase greenhouse emissions, flooding, drought, and the decline in life quality of people resulting to intensified poverty.

The project shall be engaged in improving community led biodiversity friendly practices and approaches and stakeholders engagement towards biodiversity conservation [Increase Awareness Raising on preventing deforestation and we shall be involved in mobilizing 2 affected communities to undertake afforestation ] Stakeholders will be engaged alongside with these actors [miners, farmers, timber loggers] to formulate a community environment policy as a led action for the protection of threatened and endangered species of animals and habitat. PeWoDO shall work with communities to plant 500 quick growing life trees and 15 hectares of swamp rice.

The overall project Objective is to improve the livelihoods and climate change resilience of rural farming households in Sierra Leone.

Specific Objectives:
1.To create awareness amongst citizens at large, especially farmers on the realities, effects and impact of climate change on productivity and subsequent household sustainability.
2.To contribute to addressing the multiple and combined impacts of climate change especially the anticipated modification of rainfall patterns and decreased water availability and increases in temperatures.
3.To increase farmers demand for improve climate smart Agriculture services including adapting farming systems, use of adaptable and drought resistant crops, land use patterns etc while, holding service providers accountable
4.To increase farmers productivity and income level while improving nutrition

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Penguia Women Development Organization

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

CapDev
Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)

Grant Amount:

US$ 20,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 15,589.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/LD/1/11/2022/29

Start Date:

12/2022

End Date:

12/2023

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Communication strategy to promote public awareness on the prevention of deforestation and climate change are through shall be through. 1) Hosting public community meetings; we shall use musical set, flyers, handbills with project inscription on it 2) Indoor trainings/workshops ? we shall use notes and pamphlets 3)Training of youth farmers. (TOT); using T-shirts, posters, working gears and pamphlets 4) Door to door, community to community and school to school. We will distribute school materials such as exercise books with the writings ? STOP DEFORESTTION 5) Radio programs/jingles. Video shows of natural disasters due to human activities both national and international

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous people will be encouraged to establish nursery of fast-growing trees that timber loggers will be compelled to buy for replacing the trees that they shall cut.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Knowledge products shall be captured form lessons learned, and good practices gained and documented, share and disseminate. The knowledge product will come from the following, a) Indoor meetings/trainings b) Outdoor house to house awareness raising c) Training of the top 50 agricultural youths d) Media engagement (Radio airtime, video recording)

Notable Community Participation

The community people of Sandaru town of Penguia chiefdom have been actively involved in the planning of project in open discussions and in group meeting. The project was plnned with youth groups, women groups, stakeholders and beneficiaries, and the implementation shall increase knowledge base of the targeted people and the primary local area. The communities that will be involved include 1. Sandaru 2. Kononani 3. Lalihun 4. Nyamundu 5. Kono Bendu

Capacity - Building Component

The project will be implemented by an organization that has the core values integrity and respect, empathy, transparency and accountability and gender equality based approach. The have trained people to implement the project.

Policy Impact

This project will not be able to totally eradicating the mining and timber logging activities without strong policy. therefore the intervention will endeavour to regulate these activities by implementing local bylaws in such a way that people should practice reforestation and hold mining companies to engage in corporate social responsibilities of reclaiming the soil after their mining activities. These will also create job opportunities for these very community gold miners. The community will develop environment protection policy which will be adapted by the key stakeholders and members of the chiefdom and the practices will be geared towards incorporating certain procedures that will mitigate deforestation and land degradation.

Gender Focus

Women will have a dominant size of numbers in the roles of implementing the project. They will acquired financial incentives to boost up their socio economic activities such as the Village Savings and Loans Activity (VSLA).

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Youth will be selected and trained for the planting of trees. These activities will in some way create job opportunity for them. Women will also have these equal benefits as the men. Women will then use their acquired financial incentives to boost up their socio economic activities such as the Village Savings and Loans Activity (VSLA)

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Indicators

Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 250

Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 100

Biophysical

Hectares of land sustainably managed by project 56

Livehood

Number of households who have benefited* from SGP project 456

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 3192

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