Planned Activities
1.0 Support 100 rural women farmers in Bulenga and Dupare to invest in climate smart farms and practice dry season farming including soil and water conservation management and bulking of horticulture crop seed and cultivation of climate resistant crops.

Achievements
1.1. Introduced weekly Environmental Awareness Programmes on the Local FM Stations. The project mobilized resource persons from Ministry of Agriculture and other Civil Society organization to undertake environmental education on Radio Upper West and Radio Progress whose wide coverage areas include the whole of the Wa East District where Dupari is located. The weekly awareness creation program is still on-going.

1.2. The project formed a 9-member Project Management Committee (PMC) to organize the communities to carry out work on the project. Members of the Project management Committee were drawn from women groups, farmers, hunters, carvers and weavers, livestock owners, and commercial farmers. This was to ensure that the project incorporates the interests and concerns of different groups of people. The PMC was inaugurated and empowered as part of the project initiation activities.

1.3. Under the directives of the PMC and in collaboration with the MOFA and District Assembly, the community dugout in-between Dupari and Gilan was desilted. The PMC organized the two communities to desilt the community dugout to increase the water storage capacity by 60%. The spillways were repaired and reinforced. The communities free labor removed all the silt and the weeds around the sides and deepen the depths. This will increase its storage capacity.

1.4. The PMC organized the women into three trust groups of 20 members each These groups were educated on the climate smart principles and register interested members. The group members worked on the lands adjacent to the dugout.

1.5. In collaboration with MOFA, the PMC organized capacity building training for the groups in soil and water conservation management, compost preparation, mulching, and cultivation of crop resistant crops The women were taught on the establishment and maintenance of climate smart farms. A demonstration farm was be established as a learning field for the group members.

Planned Activity 2. 3-ha climate smart farms established and managed by the women farmers for reliable harvest and increased yield
2.1. The PMC worked with MOFA to establish Community horticulture/tree nursery. A total of 30,000 seedling to raise as drought resistant seedlings for planting in the smart farms in Dupari and Gilan.

2.2. The PMC erected four overhead tanks at strategic locations within the climate smart farming area. The total capacities of the four tanks is 10,500cc which will ensure daily supply of water for the 5 ha irrigated land under the climate smart farming systems. These tanks would be fitted with pipes so as to be able to irrigate the field with gravity.

2.3. The PMC procured equipment and materials to support simple irrigation in the area adjacent to the community dugout dam. Basic equipment and materials like water hose, pumping machines, watering cans, wheelbarrows, and drips were procured to facilitate the pumping and distribution of water in the area

2.4. First round training of farmers in the simple drip irrigation technology and application of organic fertilizer and pesticides was initiated. The project will train the more farmers on the principles pumping and irrigation. They would be trained on how to prepare and apply the compost; how to prepare and apply neem organic pesticides and basic farm management systems.