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WUM community based land restoration project

Increasing land degradation in Wum (Waindo,Bu,Aguli,Zonghofu and Kesu) caused by wildfires, unsustainable farming practices, inappropriate fuel wood extraction and inappropriate animal husbandry practices has led to loss of biodiversity, poor farm yield, out ? migration, gender inequality and household poverty.

Currently, the land is degraded at a speedy rate with wildfires at the top of the list. Subsistence farming is now practiced unsustainably and over 1,000 trees are uprooted annually to expand farms. The situation is worsened by the fact that economic trees are used for fuel wood with impunity. If actions are not taken immediately to safeguard the situation, most of the land would be degraded in future.

The main objective of this project is to promote community involvement in land restoration and sustainable management of natural resources for the socio ?economic well being of the people of five communities (Waindo, Bu, Aguli, Zonghofu and Kesu) in Wum central subdivision.

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Grantee:

SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMAL LIFE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Country:

Cameroon

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)

Grant Amount:

US$ 21,784.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 8,953.82

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 10,376.55

Project Number:

CMR/SGP/OP5/CORE/LD/11/07

Start Date:

1/2012

End Date:

3/2013

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Project Characteristics and Results

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

*A training programme in Poultry keeping and pepper production, will be organized for 60 interested community members and interested members of the adjourning communities to serve as alternative income source. Following such trainings the members will be provided with 2000 broilers,Thus increasing their incomes from alternative sources and reducing the burden on the Savanna forest and therefore promoting natural regeneration. *The scheme is aimed at putting in place a revolving fund for women. Members will borrow at small fixed interest rates to boost the income generating activities. The goal is empower these vulnerable groups economically and socially. A management committee will be elected amongst the women to manage the fund.

Policy Impact

*The project will contribute to the governments land rehabilitation programme. *The project will involved the council,decentralised government technical services of MINEP,MINFOP,MINADER AND MINEPIA.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

*The project will promote weekly environmental education programmes on local Radio stations. These FM Stations have wide coverage, which includes the project location. The activity will be carried out throughout the project period. *Community fora will also be organised to promote environmental awareness programmes in 5 communities to be covered by the project to develop awareness, change attitudes and behaviours of the people to be able to contain environmental problems.

Capacity - Building Component

Members of the project anti ? wildfire volunteers squad will be formed and trained to serve as watchdog committee to ensure responsible environmental behaviour. Most of them will come from the five main communities of the project area. They will be trained in fire fighting and first aid techniques. After the training they will be issued with identification cards and Wellington boots. The squad will also help the communities to formulate their own environmental rules and regulations to govern the environment.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The indigenous people would be invovled in the project implimentation, monitoring and evaluation. The rehabilitation of the degraded lands with fast growing resilient and economic plants such as Pumpkin, Jatropha, Moringa, Mahogany, Dawadawa, Cashew, Mango and Cassia will be responsibility of the indgenous people.

Notable Community Participation

The project will be implementd by the local people in Wum. They will form project implementation committee which will be supervised by the NGO.

Gender Focus

The project will promote greater equality among women and men. It will enable women and men to collaborate and work together on strategies improving the overall community livelihood situation. The project will focus on building women?s leadership

Project Results

* According to the organization of community fora for all four beneficiary communities, the awareness was created in some 129 direct participants (35 of them women) on the need to change attitudes and behaviors to contain environmental problems. An additional 2000 persons will be indirectly taught in homes and meeting houses. Wum is a community tightly organized around traditional meetings and social gatherings.

* The training on the anti-wildfire involved 17 volunteers (2 women). They were trained on preventive and curative measures to take against wildfire. The team is fully equipped to mitigate the damaging effects of wildfires to farmland and forest resources.

*Training of farmers to acquire improved soil fertility technologies involved 31 farmers were trained (12 women, 19 men). A key component of this training was experience sharing. Trained members were drawn from all four beneficiary communities. As farmers will put this knowledge into practice, farmlands will be improved with a resultant better harvest.

*Establishment of a community nursery with a capacity of 6000 nursed tree seedlings of 9 different species being potted. Trees for enrichment planting and establishment of a woodlot are to be furnished by the nursery. A nursery attendant is hired and five other workers with him.

*Agro forestry has been introduced in the farms of 50 farmers 37 of whom are women.

*Two hectares planted for a woodlot, and two hectares planted for the fodder bank.

*Four land use plans or maps have been established.

*20 women have each benefited 50000frs under the loan scheme. The loans were provided at a 1% interest rate to enable beneficiaries to buy animal feed to fattened the four weeks old chicks received. Repayment was spread over a 5 months period at 11,000frs per month.

*20 members (8 of them are women) each have a poultry farm of 50 broilers. 20 other community members have started pepper gardens.

*Degraded lands in Upkwa Naikom, Ngouh and Magha have been demarcated and planted for enrichment. The anti-wild fire squad is in place to safeguard the area from wild fires

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Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 0

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 20

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