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Community Forests Management Project (COF-MAP)

The project is to complete the commercialization of the product from Ocimum kilimandscharicum that is now being cultivated by the community living around Budongo Forest as a sustainable alternative income generating activity, for the purpose of reducing pressure on the forest. As an additional activity, BUCODO will promote the conservation of customary forests around Budongo forest by mobilizing the adjacent community to form village forest committees to manage the forests.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Budongo forests community development organisation

Country:

Uganda

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

Phase 3

Grant Amount:

US$ 40,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 23,516.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 15,110.00

Project Number:

UGA/05/54

Start Date:

11/2005

End Date:

12/2007

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Although BUCODO is the lead agent in implementing the programme, it will be supported in each of the components by the under mentioned partners : - ACODE shall give the needed expertise in advocacy to raise and share the concerns and experiences of the CBOs in order that their voices and demands are given attention to as a mechanism in PFM process. CARE (Uganda) shall backstop BUCODO especially in the ENRM and build capacities of the CBOs in areas of rights, equity and revenue sharing in community based natural resource management system. ICIPE shall provide the technical services in the area of processing plant derived medicinal products and conduct bio prospecting in order to identify more plants of medicinal values and opportunities of developing new formulations and commercial cultivation of such plants. ICIPE will also support BUCODO in manufacturing, packaging and marketing of the Naturub products.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

BUCODO will promote the conservation of customary forests around Budongo forest by mobilizing the adjacent community to form village forest committees to manage the forests.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

BUCODO will sell the products manufactured from ocimum Kilimandscharicum that will be cultivated by the community. BUCODO will pay the farmers for the plant materials supplied. Percentage of the profit will be ploughed back to the project for maintenance and upgrading of the equipment and improvement of the facilities and the enterprises in general. The rest of the profit will be used for sustaining conservation activities around Budongo forest.

Notable Community Participation

By enhancing the ability of CBOs to promote more participatory, transparent and accountable governance at local level the project will contribute to poverty reduction both directly in terms of increasing local benefits from PFM, and indirectly in terms of providing an entry point for a broader good governance agenda within decentralized government.

Gender Focus

Particular emphasis will be placed on the interests and rights of poorer households and other marginalized groups within the community, notably women and children (i.e. gender equity).

Capacity - Building Component

The Empowering and Strengthening of Civil Society on Participatory Forest Management (EMPAFORM) programme will focus on the promotion of a pro-poor approach to Participatory Forest Management (PFM) which will be achieved through strengthening and empowering community-based organizations (CBOs) that represent community interests and rights in community forestry management and utilization.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The Project will focus on creating awareness on community forest management, undertake boundary demarcation, conduct stock inventory survey using Participatory resource assessment techniques, develop community forest management plans, promote enrichment planting and form communal land associations as a means of securing customary certificates of ownership for the community forest lands.

Policy Impact

The project will be pro-poor in the sense that it promotes a more demand driven approach to the establishment of community forestry management arrangements whereby communities are able to assert their right to PFM that exists under new forest policies and require government to take the necessary action, in contrast to the existing situation where government agencies determine when, where and how PFM will be implemented.

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