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Developing a community project to contribute to biodiversity conservation of the mountain ecosystem and Cunninghamia konishii hayata in Ky Son District, Nghe An Province

Cunninghamia Hagata, which was firstly discovered in Nghe An in 1964, belongs to the family plant Taxodiacea. It is listed in the Plant Red Book (1996) as a critically threatened species which requires immediate protection measures. Cunninghamia Hagata grows in the dense evergreen tropical forest at the average altitude of 1,200m-1, 400m. It has a highly economic and scientific value.
However, this species is under the threat of extinction due to deforestation in the area. The community, especially the H'Mong people living in the area has adopted slash and burn cultivation practice for years. The forest has been cleared for agriculture production, especially for opium crop. It is also the tradition of the H'Mong people to use the wood of this species for housing construction materials.
The project aims to contribute to conserving this species and rehabilitating the forest ecosystem in the high mountain in the project area. It will be carried out in Tay Son Commune, Ky Son District, Nghe An Province, where several populations of Cunninghamia Hagata grow and exist. A survey on the distribution of this species in the project area and research on biological characteristics of this species will be carried out. Techniques to promote natural forest regeneration in order to conserve this species and to rehabilitate the forest ecosystem in the high mountain will be transferred. It will also test techniques in sowing and planting this species.
In addition to raising community awareness and encouraging and supporting the H'Mong people to use other housing construction materials instead of wood from this species, the project will give priority in increasing community income to encourage them to tear up their opium poppies through developing agroforestry model with a suitable crop structure.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Association of Forestry Science and Technology of Ky Son Dis

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$ 20,191.00

Project Number:

VN/01/006

Start Date:

6/2002

End Date:

12/2006

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

- The Project Management Board formulates a revolving loan programme suitable to the project models (criteria on electing borrowing households, rights and duties of the Management Board and the borrowing households, loan duration, loan capital, interest rates ...) and asks GEF SGP financial managers and the participating communities to elect borrowing households on the basis of criteria formulated by the Project Management Board; - The Project applies the revolving loan programme to households developing the project model on their own land. Upon the completion of the project, the loans will be reclaimed and turned over for the building and enlargement of the models; - The project loans will be granted in kind to the borrowing households to set up the model during 3 years, including: (i) Seedlings; (ii) Fertilizer; (iii) Pesticides and insecticides; (iv) construction materials (roofing materials as fibro cement); - The loans will be managed by the community with simplified and effective loan formalities at interest rates similar to those regulated by the Bank for the Poor.

Policy Impact

- The government reforestation programme (known as the 5 million ha of forest programme) aims to protect the forest and reforest the barren land, for the purposes of environmental protection and economic development. The project models fit well with this government programme and therefore will be applied, contributing to protecting the forest and its biodiversity.

Notable Community Participation

- The project gives priority to community participation. During the project design phase, knowledge and traditions of local people were studied and taken into consideration in project design. The local people were in consultations about the project issues and solutions at community meetings and through surveys/interviews. In order to promote the role and responsibilities and to ensure community ownership, during the project implementation and M&E, the project will: - Provide the community with full information on the project. Representatives from the community will be given the opportunities to attend project opening, mid term and final meetings, and project workshops. - Give community opportunities to participate in all project activities. - The project team will develop the revolving loan mechanism to assist the participating community in purchasing the materials for the project model building. The community select among themselves the participating community based on the selection criteria developed by the project team. The community manage the revolving loan programme. - The community is given opportunities in project monitoring and evaluation. - Mobilising the community to invest their labor and resources in model building. - The project take into consideration the community needs and cultivation techniques when developing training materials. - The community ownership, benefit and participation are cornerstone in project implementation and M&E.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

- The project?s main objective is to set up agro forestry models of sa mu dau, forestry plants and agricultural plants. These models will contribute to increasing the people?s income.

Gender Focus

- Women are given prioroties in the project capacity building activities and revolving loan programme. - Women take part in most activities of the project model building, including making seedlings, planting, caring, harvesting, and selling products.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

1. One of the key objectives of the project is to enhance awareness and understanding of the project stakeholders on the following issues. - global environmental issues such as biodiversity conservation, climate change, land degradation and desertification - linkage between poverty and enviornemntal degradation - enviornemntal protection and sustainable development - millenium development goals (MDGs) 2. The project has awareness raising activities on global enviornmental issues, focusing on the project issue of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity of forest ecosystem. - Oragnising training workshops, dialogues, community contests on the issue of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity of forest ecosystem. - Mainstreaming the project issue in the mass organisations activities and programmes - Using public media when possible - Attending in exchange visits, workshops and environmental communication activities organised by GEF SGP where GEF issues are discussed.

Policy Influence

As the project failed to achieve its objectIves, the project is very limited in terms of its influence on policy.

Project sustainability

As the project failed to achieve its objectIves, the project is very limited in terms of its influence on policy.

Replication of project activities

As the project failed to achieve its objectIves, the project is very limited in terms of its influence on policy.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

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Capacity - Building Component

The project capacity building activities include the followings. - Training workshops in forest protection and conservation of sa mu dau - Community meetings and workshops for assessment on project model building and experience sharing in forest protection and conservation of sa mu dau - Study tours/exchange visits to learn from other localities in forest protection and conservation of sa mu dau - Training items include (1) techniques in selecting the mother trees and developing seed stands, (2) techniques in developing seedlings of sa mu dau, (3) cultivation techniques of sa mu dau in an agro forestry model, and mixed cultivation of sa mu dau and other forestry plants - In addition to the project capacity building activities, the project team members attend exchange visits, training workshops on project design and implementation, M&E as well as themtaic workshops for sharing experience and lessons learned organised by GEF SGP. - In addition to the project capacity building activities, key community members attend exchange visits, thematic workshops for sharing experience and lessons learned organised by GEF SGP. - Training participants are project participating farmers, and commune key farmers and extension workers of participating commune.

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