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Developing a community project to contribute to conserving biodiversity and natural resources of Cam Son reservoir ecosystem, Luc Ngan District, Bac Giang Province

Cam Son is a reservoir which was constructed in 1966 in Bac Giang Province, a mountainous province in the north of Viet Nam. The reservoir provides water for four districts in the province. After 30 years of use, the reservoir ecosystem has undergone major changes. Forest coverage in the area reduced from 80% in 1960s to 15% in 1980s due to deforestation, resulting in a significant loss of biodiversity in the area. Resources in the reservoir and in the forest have been overexploited with destructive methods by poor community. The profit of fisheries development in the reservoir has not been promoted due to the ineffective management mechanism of natural resources of the reservoir. Community living standard is very low due to difficulties in transportation, backward technology and limited income generating opportunities.

Thanks to the Government effort in reforestation programmes, the forest coverage reaches 30% in 1993. Biodiversity has the sign to recover. A bird area has been formulated in Tan Son Commune located in the area since 1994. The local Government and relevant agencies have conducted research with the purpose to establishing a protected area to protect the naturally regenerated forest and to conserve its biodiversity.

However, biodiversity conservation is a major challenge to the local government due to the problem of poverty in the area. In order to sustainably manage the reservoir ecosystem and its resources, poverty needs to be tackled by promoting the effectiveness of natural resource use in a sustainable manner.

The project will be carried out in the four communes located in the reservoir area. Its primary purpose is to develop a model of sustainable management of a reservoir ecosystem. It promotes community involvement and participation in natural resource management by ensuring community ownership in managing water and forestland resources through accelerating the Government process of land and forest allocation to the community. The project will test a joint management mechanism of water resources of the reservoir for fisheries exploitation and development. Technology transferred to the community in managing natural resources and economic production in agriculture and fisheries development will be given high priority.

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Grantee:

Union of Science and Technology Associations of Bac Giang Pr

Country:

Viet nam

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

Phase 2

Grant Amount:

US$ 50,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 29,818.82

Project Number:

VIE/01/001

Start Date:

2/2002

End Date:

2/2005

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Developing an agro-forestry model for sustainable management of the Cam Son reservoir ecosystem

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Project Characteristics and Results

Project sustainability

- The project is sustainable because following reasons + Some models had advanced the understanding of how people think about change, how to apply the model in accordance with the conditions of each family to develop home income that households contributed to the protection ecological environment in the lake area and poverty reduction + The model of effective management of performance and exploitation of aquaculture combined State and people in investment, management and exploitation. State managed plans, planning, breeding services and technique. People around the lake in 4 communes directly managed to exploitation on the basis of management regulations, with mechanisms to exploit and benefit to match between rights and responsibilities

Capacity - Building Component

- To organize 45 training courses for 2570 people in the project area: 8 workshops to raise awareness for about 400 participants 02 contest on environment to 420 participants 06 conferences for 300 participants 02 technical training on model of mixed forest with 100 participants 06 technical training on model of building gardens with 300 participants 3 technical training on Biogas model with 150 participants 2 training courses on using biogas technology with 100 participants 8 technical training on building and use of energy saving stoves (TK-90) with 400 people 06 training courses on aquaculture model like fish cages, ponds with 300 people 02 training courses on growing and processing medicinal plants with 100 people - The project organized study tours within and outside the province for local government officials and citizens

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

- Cam Son Lake is large and important irrigation in Bac Giang province, providing irrigation water for 24.000ha of agricultural land in Luc Ngan, Lang Giang, Bac Yen Dung and Bac Giang. Total natural area of land was 24,780 ha There are two main tributaries to supply water to the lake, from Cam flows through the town of Lang Son and Tan Son Son into the lake. In addition there are 6 small streams providing water for the lake. Protection works around the Lake in the boundaries of five communes of Luc Ngan district (Bac Giang) and 3 communes in Chi Lang district (Lang Son) After more than 30 years of exploitation, the lake had many major changes in social and economic and it impacts to our natural resources and the environment was significant. The environment was seriously destroyed (in which flora was mainly). Fisheries resources of the lake had not been promoted, even degraded more. The community life in the areas was more difficult. According to data of poor households (the old criteria), there was 31.7% of poor households in the region (including 7.9% of very poor households). 5 communes in Cam Son Lake were of the lowest living standard areas in the northern mountainous region.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Replication of project activities

Some models can replicate like the goat model, the aquaculture model (fish cages, fish in pond) , the TK-90 model and forest garden model. These models were to promote the positive effects and could be maintained after project completion.

Notable Community Participation

The project focused on community involvement. During developing the project proposal, the project had explored knowledge, experience and practices of local people and got comments on the most pressing needs and solutions to build the model. Project disseminated information on project for community, community representatives attending the conference on project development, review and project completion. Project raised awareness and facilitated the direct participation of the community, supervision, monitoring, model performance evaluation and learn to apply to the family. Mobilize the contribution of community effort in building models The project focused on educational level and practices and custom to build an appropriate content of training.

Policy Impact

To build the regulation on community self-management and protection of biodiversity and natural resources of the lake.

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