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Forest Restoration for enhanced climate mitigation and livelihoods

Kabwafu area, located cloase to Vwaza Marsh and Nyika National Park and faces serious deforestation with resultant loss of biodiversity ecosystem services. Approved by the National Steering Committee (NSC) on 11th November 2022, the Enhancing Urban-Environmental-Sustainability Through Fighting Climate-Change-Impact with Total Community Engagement project (Project number: MLW/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2022/02), implemented by the SFS aims to provide sustainable markets and interventions to natural resources management that give rise to regenerative and restorative land use systems and ensure overall positive results and sustainability in Kabwafu, Malawi. This is accomplished by providing quality and high-value services to communities and farmers, utilizing its platform of expertise, applying sustainable agroecological practices, exploiting innovative collaborations, and complying with relevant laws and policies in its operating areas.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Sustainable Farming Solutions

Country:

Malawi

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP7 Y4 (July 23-June 24)

Grant Amount:

US$ 42,782.77

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

Project Number:

MLW/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2022/02

Start Date:

1/2023

End Date:

1/2024

Status:

Currently under execution

Project Characteristics and Results

Notable Community Participation

At the onset implementation, gender analysis will be carried out to assess gender equality among men, women, boys, and girls in performance of productive, reproductive, socio-political activities and access and control of productive resources and benefits and representation of women in local level decision making. The project team is predominantly youthful.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Community based approach underly the project theory. This ensures that indigenous people drive the project. gender analysis and gender transformation approaches will enhance significant participation of indigenous Peoples.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Community dissemination meetings, social media platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) and published on our website news feed and participation in meetings and conferences will be among public awareness activities regarding the project.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Key project milestones and success stories will be shared via our social media platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) and published on our website news feed.

Gender Focus

Mne traditionally hold higher stakes in decision making than women. Gender transformation approaches will be underly the project theory to ensure gender equity. 50:50 men and women representation participation will be adopted as a benchmark for equal men and women participation and benefit from the project. Deliberate efforts to have more women will be supported to ensure equity. Women and youths will be exposes to specific trainings to acquire specific skills knowledge through a COMPACT Model.

Policy Impact

Planning non gef grant

Project activities are scalable. SFS therefore plans to scale up thruough non-GEF grants.

Planning gef grant

Project activities are scalable. SFS therefore plans to scale up to medium-sized GEF grants.

Capacity - Building Component

The grantee has strong base in the technicality of the project it does. It how requires strengthening of its capacity in M&E for improved project management and fundraising for growth.

Policy Influence

The project does not have direct policy influence. Lessons learned from it will be a source of information for reviewing policies related to ecosystem management.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project focusses on land and forest restoration to support agriculture, hence contributing to food and economic security. The project with strengthen honey and Sunflower supply chain systems to Northern Honey processors and Homes Industries. In this regard, 500 households will directly benefit.

Project sustainability

The project involves, trains and brings awareness to direct resource users. Project life success will therefore drive the participants to carry on with the activities introduced through the project.

Replication of project activities

The project responds to common challenges of deforestation and natural resources degradation driven by and affects farmers among others. owing to this nature, the project is scalable.

Linkages gef projects

There are no direct linkages with GEF project.

Project Results

Key expected project results will include i) increased area of landscapes under sustainable land management in production systems, in which 112 hectares are targeted. This will be achieved through different activities, including training of 10 forest restoration teams, planting of 100,000 agroforestry trees, and planting of 150,000 trees in designated areas in KFT. The second expected result is ii) Increased income of beneficiaries (Improved livelihoods), which will entail providing sport hone and sunflower production benefiting 500 farmers

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Number of households who have benefited* from SGP project 500

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