All meetings, workshops and interactions with the community will be undertaken in two languages, i.e., English and Kweyol.
Due to the spatial extent of the community, communications will be on a face to face basis.
Gender Focus
During the design stage of the project every effort will be made to ensure gender equity and living intergenerational consultations.
Notable Community Participation
During this phase of the project, which is the design phase, there will be extensive involvement of all groups in the community including the youth. One major reason is because of the very high unemployment among the youth.
Policy Impact
Not at this stage.
Replication of project activities
Project activities can be easily replicated because they were not new and the methods are described in the literature.
Linkages gef projects
There were no linkages
Planning non gef grant
There were no such plans at the end of the Planning Grant phase.
Project sustainability
This phase or the Planning Grant phase is much too early to determine the sustainability of the project. The community inclusive process should contribute to project sustainability.
Policy Influence
This project did not result in any policy impact.
Capacity - Building Component
To be determined during this stage of the project cycle.
Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
To be determined for implementation during the Full Grant phase of the project cycle.
Inovative Financial Mechanisms
To be determined in a more comprehensive manner during this project development phase. During this stage, the PG stage, radio and TV will be used.
Planning gef grant
To be determined.
Project Results
This project achieved a few major results as follows: (i) Community trained in advocacy techniques; (ii) Through training in photo voice techniques, the community was able to bring its story to live; and (iii) by working with GEF SGP UNDP and Premium Cocoa Producers, the community was able to determine its level of resilience.
Based on a methodology developed by the United Nations University ? Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Biodiversity International (BI), Institute for Global Environment Strategies (IGES) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2014, a list of twenty indicators were presented and explained to three (3) groups of participants. The facilitator introduced each indictor, explained it, and allowed each group three (3) to five (5) minutes to discuss the indicator and come up with a score between 1 (lowest) and 5 (highest).
The indicators measure elements of resilience within the Fond Watershed and allowed participants to arrive at consensus on the state of resilience within the watershed. According to UNU-IAS (2014) , the twenty indicators measure various aspect of resilience covering the ecological, agricultural, cultural, and socio-economic and they can be categorized into five categories as follows:
? Landscape/seascape diversity and ecosystem protection
? Biodiversity (including agricultural biodiversity).
? Knowledge and innovation.
? Governance and social equity.
? Livelihoods and well-being.
With a mean score of 52, the community of Malgretoute has a medium resilience level which in reality is not very good. Significant improvements are required in the following indicators where the lowest scores were assigned, i.e., ecological interaction between different components of the landscape; sustainable management of common resources; documentation of biodiversity-associated knowledge; and biodiversity based livelihoods. The lowest scores were assigned to the sustainable management of common resources indicator and the documentation of biodiversity-associated knowledge. These scores in many respects underpin the multiple hazards faced by the community and are reflected in the rapid assessment completed by Ms. Soomer. Future interventions should therefore focus on these weaknesses including the other weak indicator scores.
During project implementation, 13 persons (3 men and 10 women) were employed and earned a total of US$1731 (US$394 Men and US$1337 - women).
A total of 29 persons (14 women and 15 men) were trained in the following areas: Photovoice; Community Advocacy; Determination of Landscape Resilience; and Appreciative Enquiry.
Finally, it was obvious that this group needed ongoing significant assistance from a facilitator; frequent celebration of milestones; a significant appreciation of their life circumstances and s shift towards sustainable livlihoods.
