Project Detail

Enhancing Urban-Environmental-Sustainability Through Fighting Climate-Change-Impact with Total Community Engagement.

The project responds to serious natural resource degradation in Ndirande hills. Deforestation in the hill is undeniable truth that has fallen upon the residents in the township and other surrounding communities. The once evergreen Ndirande hill is today as bare as soccer field. The mountain has for long being illegally used as a source of firewood for either cooking or burning bricks by the surrounding communities which negatively affect its ecosystem and turned the area into a desert. Forestry experts say out of 700 hectares of the hill, more than 500 hectares have been encroached by people doing farming, firewood and constructing houses. As if the deforestation is not bad enough, people have turned the only river that originates from Ndirande Mount (Nasolo river) their disposal dumping site. As a result, in the rainy season the Nasolo changes into a dangerous current, sweeping away chickens and children, bridges and houses(www.ndirande.com).
Our project "Enhancing urban-environmental-sustainability by Fighting the Impact of climate change through full community participation" aims to mitigate the problems faced by the residents of Ndirande(floods) that are mainly caused by deforestation (in Mount Ndirande) as well as improper waste disposal that have turned the Nasolo River into a garbage dump.

Approved by the National Steering Committee meeting held on 11th November 2022, the project aims to conserve 20% of the Nasolo River and Ndirande Mountain in Ndirande township through mechanisms that will reduce deforestation by 15%, reforestation (planting) of 20,000 trees as well as preventing/reducing the continued dumping of waste into Nasolo River 35%.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Busy Youth Organization

Country:

Malawi

Area Of Work:

Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)

Grant Amount:

US$ 46,752.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

Project Number:

MLW/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CW/2022/01

Start Date:

1/2023

End Date:

1/2024

Status:

Currently under execution

Project Characteristics and Results

Planning gef grant

Lessons learned from this grant will inform BYO to best scale up to a medium-sized GEF grants.

Planning non gef grant

Lessons learned from this grant will inform BYO to best scale up to any other grants.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Primary direct beneficiaries of the project are women and girls who are burdened with fetching of firewood in Malawi, and in Ndirande in particular. Traditionally, men and girls assume passive and insignificant participation. To address this, the project will: i) conduct special trainings targeting women and girls; ii) ensure equal representation of men and women in committees..

Capacity - Building Component

The Grantee is strong in community mobilization owing to its placement. It has set the basic governance structure for project management and administration. Its focus area is well defined within its Strategy. It however needs support in Monitoring and evaluation. Efforts will be made to build its caapcity in M&E through participatory means.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The Project will use participatory rural appraisal tools for community mobilization, hence public awareness about the project. public community gathering will also be sued as they arise.

Linkages gef projects

The are currently no linkages with large GEF projects..

Replication of project activities

The project addresses key issues that are widespread beyond Ndirande Hill. It employs community-based approaches to addressing local drivers of the deforestation. The approach, results and lessons learned from the project will therefore be replicable to nearby areas, such as Bangwe, Sochie, Machinjiri and Kachere mountaisn in Blanntyre

Policy Influence

The project does not aim to directly influence policies.

Policy Impact

The project does not plan to directly produce policy impact. However, lesson learned from it may act as source of information of policy reviews.

Project sustainability

The project involves local people who feel the impact of the degradation through awareness and capacity building. It initiates a revolving fund approach in access gas stoves. it also builds the capacity of forest governance structures. Combined, these are meant to ensure sustainability beyond the project period.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project will be contributing to equal access to and control of natural resources of women and men; improve the participation and decision-making of women in natural resource governance; target socio-economic benefits and services for women. It will specifically reach to 25,000 direct beneficiaries with access to clean and green cooking technologies (provision of cook stoves), which translate into not only environmental, but also health and economic benefits.

Gender Focus

Women are burdened with non-productive household chores that limit their ability to build socio-economic capacity for adaptation to climate change. Women are affected more than men during natural disasters like floods. During disasters, women are forced to take extra care of the family especially children as they trying to survive themselves too. Men hv ethe responsibilities of providing for home. with high levels of poverty and limited livelihood options, the opt depend on natural resources, principally trees through unsustainable charcoal production as source of income. This leads to deforestation in Ndirande Hill Decision making is mainly by men, thus creating imbalance between men and women.

Notable Community Participation

Youth involvement in the project is underpinned by BYO's missions- Our mission is ?to help women and young people reach their full potential by encouraging, enhancing and facilitating their active participation in business, employment, health activities, environment and climate change learning and mitigation as well as participation in social community life.? Project implementation is therefore set to employ Youth and women leadership programs, and achieve: i) Improve youth and women skills and learning abilities, improve socialization, employment and income generation; and ii) Increase the abilities of youth and women in environment and climate change mitigation, among others.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

achievements and lessons learned from the project will be compiled and shared through community meeting and district level meetings and engagements, as well as shared with SGP project management team for wider dissemination.

Project Results

The seeks an increased community participation (64 farming households, 4 forest committees) that will facilitate the planting of 200,000 trees targeting 90% survival rate that will translate to 15% of degraded land being rehabilitated, 20% of Nasolo river protected, 35% reduction in waste disposal in Nasolo river and 35 households owning and using gas stoves to reduce their overreliance firewood for cooking.

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