Project Detail

Community Livelihood and Environmental Awareness Campaign in Gumeim & Gum- north Jordan

The project is part of a 3-project cluster that will be implemented by women cooperatives in three villages in the north of the country. The projects aim to contribute to controlling land degradation and soil erosion, improving productivity of agricultural land and preserving environmental resources. Project activities include the introduction of soil conservation measures, water harvesting, using effective drip irrigation techniques, bee keeping, medicinal herb planting and processing and installation of solar cells for water heating. It is hoped that these projects would constitute models that encourage neighboring communities to adopt similar activities to serve their needs in line with their environmental and socio-economic contexts. The projects include an element of awareness raising for the farmers and local community members in the field of environmental issues affecting their areas and projects. They will also include an element of capacity building of implementing cooperatives, which will enable them to provide support to their local communities. The above cooperatives will use a revolving loan system in supporting their various activities so they can continue providing support to more projects that serve their local communities.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Gumeim & Gum Women Cooperative

Country:

Jordan

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

Phase 3

Grant Amount:

US$ 20,600.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 14,200.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 1,600.00

Project Number:

JOR/OP3/05/08

Start Date:

6/2005

End Date:

6/2007

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

A special capacity building component will be implemented through the project, involving training of CBO and community members on the various project activities, environmental issues and project administrative and financial management issues. Several activities in this respect have already been implemented through technical assistant's involvement with the CBO.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Planned activities at the household and community level will be supported through a revolving fund system, which would maintain project activities for as long as possible.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Planned activities which involve improving agricultural land productivity , bee keeping, home gardens and other income-generating activities would improve local community income and improve their living conditions.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Public awareness activities will focus on local as well as global environmental issues.

Gender Focus

The cooperative is a women organization, with exclusive women membership, however, the beneficiaries will be all community members, since the families and households will benefit from the supported activities.

Notable Community Participation

The cooperative was established as a direct response to the village's needs, especially the women sector. Local community were directly involved during the design and planning phase of the project. They participated in the planning sessions held to develop the project with participation of the SGP team and the technical assistant team. Community members, will be the direct beneficiaries of project activities, whether in their farms or their homes.

Policy Influence

The project aims at contributing to the sustainable land management and improved environmental situation in Gumeim and Gum villages through supporting small projects on the local community level and enhancing environmental public awareness. The project objectives depend directly on solving the environmental problems in the area, as follows: 1 Regarding lack of awareness in environmental issues: - Create awareness among school children in environmental issues. - Create awareness among the village community about the importance of preserving the environment 2 Regarding Shortage of water supplies: - Building new cisterns to collect rain water 3 Regarding exhaustion of natural resources: - To control land degradation and soil erosion in the area, through proper soil conservation measures 4 Regarding lack of diversified sources of income: - To diversify sources of income of the local community through supporting Income-Generating Activities including bee keeping, herbal plants and other 5 Regarding need for capacity building of the local institution: - To build the capacity of the local cooperative as a civil institution and empower women by giving them loans to undertake productive projects in order to be able to serve the community in a better way.

Project Results

Anticipated results

Several income-generation activities (2 dairy cows, 1 poultry, 1 bee-keeping) were supported using the revolving fund mechanism, in addition to 2 rain collection cisterns. All these activities have improved beneficiaries' income and living conditions.

Public awareness activities have also started and a pamphlet on pfoject and NGO activities has been produced and used to promote environmentally sound practices among other community members and neighboring communities.

Necessary equuipment to improve NGOs capabilities in communicating with other NGOs and communities have been purchased and members were trained on their use.

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