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Promoting climate smart and organic agricultural practices for food security and socioeconomic development in Saru to mitigate climate change impacts and biodiversity loss.

The aim of the project is to galvanize rural organizational strength of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to enhance biodiversity conservation through climate smart agricultural practices while devoting particular attention to women empowerment, youth, and persons with disabilities participation in Saru community of the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba (STK) district in the Savanna region. The project will promote Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices including organic farming, agroforestry, agricultural Insurance, alternative livelihood, Village Savings and Loans, tree woodlot planting and community nursery activities. The project intended to connect the organizational strength of self-help-groups to promote sustainable agriculture to contribute to inclusive food systems for improved livelihoods, food security, and nutrition and climate resilience through climate smart agricultural practices among small holder farmers in Saru community of the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba (STK) Bamboi district.

The main project objective is to contribute to inclusive food systems for improved livelihoods, food security, nutrition, and climate resilience among smallholder farmers in Saru community in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba (STK) District through an integrated agriculture practices and rural organizational convergence.
Specific Objectives
? To introduce smallholder farmers to conservation agricultural practices.
? To support smallholder farmers to invest in beekeeping, and tree nurseries in
? To restore the Saru portion of the Black Volta Basin with woodlots, agroforestry, enrichment of the sacred grooves and protection of water catchments areas and planting of legume crops to ensure availability of the crop for animals in the dry season.
Expected Outputs
Output 1: Six (6) Self Help Groups (SHGs) comprising of 40 Small holder farmers including women, Persons with Disabilities supported on Conservation Agricultural practices in Saru community in the first quarter of the project.
Output 2: Forty (40) beneficiaries in Saru supported engaging with sustainable alternatives livelihoods such as beekeeping and Community Nursery activities to enhance their incomes, nutrition, and food security.
Output 3: 40 hectares of degraded community lands within the Black Volta basin restored through established community-based woodlots, agroforestry, enrichment planting of shrine grooves.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Plan for Change

Country:

Ghana

Area Of Work:

Climate Change Mitigation

Operational Phase:

OP7 Y4 (July 23-June 24)

Grant Amount:

US$ 25,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 5,300.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 11,000.00

Project Number:

GHA/SGP/OP7/Y4/CORE/CC/2023/28

Start Date:

6/2023

End Date:

5/2024

Status:

Currently under execution

Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

1. P4CGH will facilitate the registration of Self-help groups into cooperative and certify organic agricultural food producers to empower them for continues functioning as voices from the grassroots level on climate change advocacy both at the community, district, and regional levels during and after the project life. The SHGs will serve as environmental protection committees in the at the community level to prevent environmental/forest related crimes

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

It will hold public meeting and radio discussions to promote public awareness.

Gender Focus

The project will also make conscious efforts to inculcate the need of all project beneficiaries including men, women, youth and PWDs into the project implementation process to ensure equal and activities participation. Project sites, training venues and meals, facilitators, materials, and equipment would be carefully considered to ensure the welfare, participation, usage and equal benefit of project beneficiaries.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The project will document experiences and lessons learnt towards the sharing of experiences and informing future initiatives in the other communities, districts, and regions. It will organize learning and knowledge exchange visits to the Centre for No Till agriculture in Kumasi for selected beneficiaries and project staff for them to acquire more experience on conservation agricultural. It will serve as a platform for beneficiaries and staff to get hands-on experience from project sites of Centre for No-Till Agriculture which would further be shared with other beneficiaries at the community level. The project will also organize quarterly review and learning workshops to share project impacts, lesson, and challenges to stakeholder

Notable Community Participation

The youth village Saving and Loan scheme

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

This project will promote rural resource mobilization among Smallholder farmers through the Village Savings and Loans Concept to motivate a sustainable functioning of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in the beneficiary communities and access to financial resource to support livelihood activities during and after the project comes to an end.

Project Results

ACTIVITIES PLANNED AND ACHIEVED IN THE SECOND DISBURSEMENT

Activities
1: Form and train six (6) SHGs comprising of 40 smallholder farmers? cooperative development. In the end, participants were able to,
1.1a. Understand the concept of cooperative, SHF cooperative, formation, financing, and management, as well as dissolution of a cooperative.
b. Acknowledge the importance of SHF Cooperative in enhancing access to finance, agri-inputs, and the market.
c. Appreciate the importance of farmer-based cooperatives in farming-related business activities towards empowering them economically, socially, and financially.
d. Leaders elected as well as members of the Saru Farmers? Cooperative gained more insights on the roles and responsibilities that are expected to be discharged by the various leadership positions filled.

2. Facilitate the registration of the SHGs as a Cooperative Society to empower them to have voice to function as community organization that promote environmental sustainability in the project community. As a result, P4C has facilitated the registration of the Cooperative with the Department of Cooperatives in the Savanna Region. Applications has been submitted to the Department of Cooperatives for further the registration.

3: Train 40 farmers in Saru on the preparation of organic compost from crop residues, domestic waste and pesticides from neem preparation and their application. This resulted in 64 Small Holder farmers comprising of 34 men and 30 women being trained on how to produce organic compost and pesticide for their farming activities.

4: Train and support 3 VSLA groups with a saving kit. In the end, three (3) VSLA groups were trained and supported with savings kit.

5: Form and train four (4) ?Youth CA Service Gangs? in the project community to deliver specialized farm services linked to sustainable agriculture and income generation. The result of the program lead to the introduction of the ?Youth Service Gang? concept as a pilot intervention in Saru.

6: Train 40 beneficiaries in Saru community with appropriate skills in Agro-Forestry systems and soil management practices to enable beneficiaries restore 40 hectares of the degraded lands in Saru community. 64 beneficiaries in Saru community with appropriate skills in Agro-Forestry systems and soil management practices by the end of the program.

7: Organize the six (6) SHGs in Saru to restore 40 hectares of degraded forest and lands by adopting sustainable land management practices and planting agroforestry trees including shea, acacia mango, and cashew under ally cropping. As a result, this project supported SHFs in Saru with over 4500 tree seedlings (Acacia, Teak and Mahogany) secured from the Forestry Commission under the Green Ghana project.

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Indicators

Biophysical

Number of innovations or new technologies developed / applied 3

Biophysical

Number of local policies informed in climate change focal area 1

Biophysical

Number of national policies informed in climate change focal area 1

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 30

Livehood

Increase in household income by increased income or reduced costs due to SGP project 80

Livehood

Number of households who have benefited* from SGP project 80

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 100

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