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Women and youth Economic Empowerment through Climate Smart Agriculture in forest edge communities in Bo District.

The project ?Women and youth Economic Empowerment through Climate Smart Agriculture in forest edge communities in Bo District? responds to the challenges posed by climate change and technological changes faced by many stakeholders, but also major behavioural shifts at various levels to help communities increase their adaptive capacity. The overall goal is to enhance gender-sensitive adaptive capacity of selected forest edged communities around the Coastal communities in Bo District, focuses on climate change and strengthening women and youths? 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 and youths to invest in climate-resilient agriculture at district and community levels.
The expected results of this intervention are: 1: Production, income levels and nutrition sensitive livelihood diversification among 2 targeted communities improved; and, 2: 50 women?s capacity to invest and meaningfully participate in CSA strengthened.
Primary goal is to enhance gender sensitive adaptive capacity of selected forest edged communities around the Coastal communities in Bo district to climate change and strengthen women and youths? capacity to meaningfully engage in climate smart agriculture.
The main objectives of the project are:
1.To enhance production, income and nutrition-sensitive climate-resilient livelihoods among targeted forest edged communities;
2.To increase opportunities for women and youths to invest in climate-resilient agriculture at district and community levels.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

HILFE DIREKT SIERRA LEONE

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)

Grant Amount:

US$ 10,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 2,369.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/CORE/LD/15/09/2023/50

Start Date:

10/2023

End Date:

12/2024

Status:

Currently under execution

Project Characteristics and Results

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Knowledge generated through the implementation of the project will be harnessed and translated in communication products for targeted audiences, including primary beneficiaries, government MDAs, civil society, GEF and other donor agencies. For each target group, the most effective and efficient ways of communication will be used.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

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 like conducting training in local language or an interpreter will be taken to improve indigenous 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.

Capacity - Building Component

The organization has an Agriculture and Food Security Unit ? responsible for implementing IVS rehabilitation/development, livestock restocking, tree crops rehabilitation, aquaculture and agriculture and food security programmes. They have the requisite staff to undertake the project.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The potential for income sustainability will be increase by strengthening communities? technical and business skills and capacity to plan, implement, and manage community projects to diversify benefit flows.

Gender Focus

The project will ensure that women and people with disabilities are given the opportunity and capacity to participate equally in the project, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Based on baseline needs assessment and market studies 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

Policy Impact

The tools and procedures that Hilfe Direkt-SL will be using specifically are: Multi-stakeholder consultations with a wide range of actors such as, Government, civil society, academia and private sector to ensure policy change.

Notable Community Participation

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

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Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 2

Biophysical

Hectares of land sustainably managed by project 10

Livehood

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

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