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Conservation of Catchment Areas and prevention of Fire Burning Practices in the Uluguru Mountains in Morogoro District

-To restore vegetation cover in environmentally degraded Uluguru mountains
-To enhance the process of carbon sequestration through increased vegetation cover
- To sensitize villagers in 24 villages living on the slopes of Uluguru mountains to refrain from enhaging in environment degrading practices.
- To promote afforestation and reforestation activities through increasing availability of tree seedlings and also to encourage households to develop private woodlots to provide a continuous source of fuelwood for household energy.
-To support community initiatives aimed at restoring vegetation cover in environmentally degraded Uluguru mountains which serve as important water catchment areas for Morogoro and Dar es Salaam

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Morogoro Environmental Conservation Action Group, Morogoro

Country:

Tanzania

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

Phase 1

Grant Amount:

US$ 30,010.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 3,770.74

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 4,434.39

Project Number:

TAN/98/06

Start Date:

9/1999

End Date:

12/1999

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Carbon sequestration objective reduce global warming. Through this objective, the public was made aware of the project's contribution to the Global Environment.

Capacity - Building Component

Communities trained on how to fight fire outbreaks, tree nursery management and tree planting practices.

Notable Community Participation

Community participated in analysing factors that cause forest fires, in forming fire fighting brigades and reforestation initiatives.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Fruit trees and trees that can be used as building poles generate income that can be used to improve livelihoods.

Project sustainability

Income generating aspect of the project assures project sustainability.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous peoples participated through attending awareness raising rallies that the project organized.

Policy Influence

Policy experiences on community level implementation of the environment policy provided.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Project co-funded by SGP, NGO and local community

Policy Impact

Project generated positive feedback on the viability of the policy on Joint Forest Management (JFM), which promoted involvement of local communities int he management of protected areas.

Planning gef grant

Project has potential for upscaling to MSP.

Planning non gef grant

Project has potential for upscaling to MSP.

Linkages gef projects

Project linked to the GEF large project on Conservation of the Eastern Arc Mountains.

Replication of project activities

Project replicated in more than 10 villages within Morogoro district.

Gender Focus

Women and men participated on equal basis in the implementation of the project. This helped to promote gender balance in the project area.

Project Results

- Project has increased awareness to local communities on the importance of conserving protected areas
- Project has promoted growing of family level woodlots for woodfuel and fruits
- Project has involved local communities to participate voluntarily to control fires whenever there is outbreak.
- Project has succeeded to reduce incidences of bush fires through persuading community members to refrain from fire burning practices and enforcing forest fire control by laws.

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