Project Detail

Promotion of Practical Environmental Conservation Education

The Objective of this project is to promote practical environmental conservation education among students in Primary and secondary schools around Marangu Teachers Training College. This project will popularize environmental conservation best practices through students who are expected to influence their community to adopt the conservation practices.
About 60 Teachers from Marangu Teachers Training College have been participating in environmental conservation education project which was conducted by Tanzania Wildlife Conservation Society (WCST) with support from COMPACT on the conservation best practices. The objective was to train the teachers who will then train primary and secondary school students on the best practice by doing.
The main activities which are conducted by this project include construction of fuel efficient cooking stove at schools and tree planting and establishment of school tree nursery. The project also conducts practical training on soil conservation activities.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Marangu Teachers' Training College

Country:

Tanzania

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

Phase 2

Grant Amount:

US$ 14,765.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 3,853.00

Project Number:

TAN/03/10

Start Date:

10/2003

End Date:

12/2005

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

650 people will be trained in conservation practices during the two year project period,these include 600 teacher trainees from Marangu teachers training College, 20 village leaders and 25 primary school teachers.

Gender Focus

Fuel efficient stoves will reduce amount of fuelwood consumed by the household thus reduce the burden of fuel wood collection by women.

Planning non gef grant

Project has a potential for upscaling to MSP level.

Replication of project activities

Project has been replicated by Moshi Municipality where by all schools which provide meals to students have constructed efficient cooking stoves.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Project has been supported through SGP grant in-cash and in-kind contributions from the project proponent. In tree nursery activity, alternative materials such as banana leaves have been used as seeds container to reduce the project costs on purchase of polythine tubes..

Planning gef grant

Project has potential for upscaling to MSP level.

Linkages gef projects

Project has provided useful inputs for FSP on land degradation

Policy Influence

Project provided useful contribution in implementing the environment Conservation Education policy.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Since the focal area will be conservation of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the initiative will link conservation of local environment and the World Heritage Site on adoption of low carbon fuelwood stoves for conservation of global environment.

Notable Community Participation

Teachers and students will demonstrate best conservation practices using both modern and traditional approaches. Through the students the best practices will be adopted by the communities.

Project sustainability

The Project trained community members on construction of efficient cooking stoves, these artisans are involved in Sale and construction of fuel efficient cookstoves which generated for project sustainability. Schools also sell the tree seedlings to sustain the activity. In tree nursery activity , alternative materials such as banana leaves have been used as seeds container to reduce the project costs.

Policy Impact

The initiative is consistent with the environment policy. Therefore, project results will convey a policy feedback on the importance of the environmental education policy.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project is expecting to promote Conservation Best practices such as soil conservation , use of efficient cooking stoves fuel and tree planting for agroforest practices which will sustain the livelhood.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The project will focus on indigenous native people in rural areas.

Project Results

Over 1,800 Teacher have been trained on practical environmental conservation education. This was done through the COMPACT supported project conducted by WCST. The project was training about 600 teachers every year.

The use of efficient cooking stoves at primary schools has imparted knowledge on the use of these stoves to about 210,000 students in 18 primary schools. These cooking stoves has reduced the amount of wood consumed by these schools.

The trained teachers at the Marangu teachers training College will be used as a vehicle of knowledge to different places in the country where they will be posted to work as teachers.

The communities will adopt the knowledge in construction and use of fuel wood efficient stoves

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Indicators

Biophysical

Number of local policies informed in climate change focal area 2

Empowerment

Number of indigenous people participated/involved in SGP project 18

Biophysical

Number of innovations or new technologies developed / applied 2

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 18

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