Project Summary
The project is called Chirumanzu Environment Friendly Nutrition Gardens .The project is targeting two clusters of brushwood fenced nutritional gardens normally done at household level escalating the already dire deforestation situation and its associated climate change effects in Chirumanzu Rural District. We are targeting to establish one acre nutrition garden with diamond mesh wire in, drill a solar powered community boreholes and establish a fruit tree nursery as well as capacitating communities with environmental education and awareness to ensure sustainability in each of the identified sites.

Rational
Nutritional gardens are a basic livelihood activity for almost every household in the communities particularly so for the rural communities.
This is currently being done in a manner that is posing a big threat to forests and trees since these are a main source of fencing (brushwood) as they try and provide security for their vegetables from community livestock.

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It is the community?s belief then that if these livelihood activities are maintained however in a climate smart way this will help alleviate the threat on forest through natural regeneration and afforestation using fruit and other indigenous trees.
This helps generate healthy diverse and resilient agro-ecosystems while reducing the impact of climate change and environmental degradation thus contributing towards climate change adaption and reversal strategies

Objective
? Promote natural environment regeneration through construction of diamond fenced community nutrition garden
? Provide climate smart solar powered water for agriculture and domestic use
? Establishment of a fruit tree nursery

Expected results
? Enhanced long lasting and environment friendly protection of the nutrition garden
? Reduced tree cutting
? Forest regeneration
? Increased tree planting activity within the community
? Improved food security for households

Target site and communities

Chirumanzu District, ward 2 Hutire Village and ward 21 Gofa Village


2. Project Justification and Baseline
Problem Analysis:
State the
Problem/Issue or Challenge Massive Cutting down of trees for brushwood fencing-Brushwood fenced gardens in rural communities are among the three greatest consumers of forests and trees result in biodiversity loss, massive deforestation promoting land degradation.
This has given rise to climate change drivers which in turn negatively affected the landscapes, rainfall patterns and ultimately their source of livelihood.
Nutrition gardens are usually done at household level escalating the level of deforestation and land degradation in communities.


What are the causes of the problem/issue or challenge? Direct Causes Indirect Causes
? Cutting down of trees for brushwood garden fencing.
? Cutting down of trees for Cattle Kraals (shelter).
? Cutting down of trees for firewood and cooking.
? Cutting down of trees for production of farm bricks.
? Poor agro economic method methods such as stream bank cultivation.
? Veld fires.
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The project is complimentary in the sense that the food security is highly dependent on water and water security in turn highly dependent on trees and forest which is in line with the SGP Country programme strategy of
? Biodiversity ? the project enhance biodiversity growth by promoting natural forest regeneration as a result of reduced deforestation, so that most plant and animal life can thrive.
? Climate change- the project target to have a climate smart source of water and security for the communities? nutrition gardens contributing towards the reduction and reversal of deforestation, thereby promoting, carbon capture clean air , water and soil quality
? Reducing land degradation through the promotion of natural forest regeneration and ground cover as well as afforestation which in-turn increases ground infiltration and help maintain underground water levels.

This project helps the communities? progress towards the achievement of sustainable development goal (15) halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity. The project also helps further government efforts in fighting deforestation and its climatic effect through various departments such as the Forestry Commission and Environmental Management Authority in their drive to reduce the effect of climate change.


3. Project Goal, Objectives, Activities, Outputs and Outcomes

Please describe the project framework and implementation plan by completing the table 1 below:
a) Overall Goal/Primary Objective: Proposed project should include environmental objective, along with development/livelihood objective as relevant.

b) Specific objectives: List all objectives to be addressed by project
c) Activities: List all activities to be implemented per objective
d) Project Outputs: 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).
e) Project Outcome: Please describe what will be produced as project results, in terms of changes in the institutional and behavioral capacities, changes in knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, policies, livelihoods and environmental conditions.

(For this section, please complete the Results Framework Table below)






Table 1 - Results Framework: (This is the most important part of the project proposal. Please take your time and use the guidelines provided)
GOAL
OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES
INDICATORS FOR PLANNED ACTIONS OUTPUTS OUTCOMES
Reduce deforestation (i) Promote natural environment regeneration

1.Construction of a diamond fenced community nutrition garden and a garden toilet

2. Environment conservation awareness and organic training sessions.

3.Establishment of a tree nursery





Baseline:
? Clusters of individual brushwood fenced nutrition gardens along river banks causing soil erosion resulting in silted rivers.
? Cutting down of trees for fencing gardens has become rampant causing desertification.
? .No sanitation toilet structures.
Target:
? Two sites of one acre diamond fenced nutrition gardens
? An average 40 households per nutrition garden including men women, children and the differently abled.



? Two solar powered boreholes drilled and solar system installed.
? Two Diamond mesh-wire fenced garden structures .
? A garden toilet for each site.
? Two environmental conservation and organic trainings per garden.
? Tree nursery per garden site.
? Diversified household nutritious food basket.
? Reduced cutting down of trees.
? Reduced soil and moisture losses.
? Increased tree population and ground cover.
? Improved nutrition, health and nutrition
? Knowledge increased on environmental conservation among community members.
? Reduced open defecation
(ii)Provide clean solar powered water for agriculture and domestic use.


1. Drilling and casing of borehole.









Baseline:
? No reliable sources of water for their community gardens they use the river bed shallow wells.
? Inconsistent rainfall patterns in the area.
? Congested water sources.

Target:
? To have reliable water sources for the garden.
? ? .Water point management training
? Borehole drilled and protected


? Improved access to clean water perennially
? Improved distance travelled to water sources






1.1 Installation of solar system

Baseline:
? No perennial and reliable and safe climate smart source of water.
Target:
? Reduction of burden/drudgery for women, the differently abled and elderly as solar piped water system is user friendly.
? Climate smart solar system installed and secured ? Reliable and safe climate smart water system
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