Transcript Guidance Workshop GEF UNDP SGP and Wells for India

Guidance Workshop
COMDEKS & GEF UNDP SGP India
16.04.2014
Community Development and Knowledge
Management for the Satoyama Initiative Project
(COMDEKS)
• Is a unique global project implemented by UNDP,
and delivered through the Small Grants Programme
as the flagship of the International Partnership for
the Satoyama Initiative
• Funded by the Japan Biodiversity Fund
• India with Brazil, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana,
Malawi, Nepal, Slovakia, and Turkey.
This is what makes COMDEKS
• Built on the Satoyama Initiative framework,
• Very relevant at a philosophical and practicable
level for enhancing sustainable practices that follow
a landscape approach.
• More importantly it is an initiative that is not
imposed and can be practiced at ease by mountain
communities.
• The main objective of the Project is to develop
sound biodiversity management and sustainable
livelihood activities with local communities in socioecological production landscapes to maintain,
rebuild, and revitalize landscapes.
Why in Uttarakhand
• We thought for Hill communities
• Communities residing within the mountain system
in India earn their living through a multiplicity of
livelihood pursuit.
• As such the integration needed between forestry,
agriculture, and animal husbandry, among others is
an ongoing phenomenon and one for which there is
appreciation by all stakeholders.
• Forces of the markets, constraints such as animal
menace, fragmentation of land holdings, and
outward migration are all testing traditional systems
and bringing sustainable practices under threat.
What is Satoyama Initiative (SI)
• Advancing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes
(SEPL) for the benefit of biodiversity and human
well being
• Ministry of the Environment of Japan and the
United Nations university Institute of Advanced
studies (UNU-IAS) partnered to SI
• The Core Vision: Enable Societies (communities of
practice) to realize in harmony with nature, that is
built on positive human nature relationships.
Scope of Landscape - SI India
• State: Uttarakhand
• Areas: 2-3 districts and nearly 2 projects in each
district as ‘pilots’.
• Funds Support: Equal Co financing
• Methodology: GEF SGP Global Guidelines
• Communities: 5000 HHs, nearly 50,000 persons
directly.
• Links established with the state, district and local
level governments, other stakeholders including the
forests, civil society, institutions etc.
• Technology interface
Overall 3 landscapes within the Himalayan
state of Uttarakhand
• We have 3 landscape covered for the baseline study
forming part of the larger Himalayan Eco-system.
• The first landscape, Rasulpur is located in the foothills
of the Himalayas but is impacted on account of forest
dwellers driven out of the designated Rajaji National
Park without any compensatory rights.
• Being cattle grazers the pressure to feed needs of
households is forcing them into pursuing activities that
are wreaking havoc in the local ecosystem within and
adjoining Rajaji National Park, and
• As such needs to be addressed through more focused
landscape-based diverse livelihoods actions.
Continued
• The second landscape being addressed is Shankarpur,
also set in the foothills of the Himalayas where much
damage is being caused to existing farmlands through
heightened ravine activity due to flash floods from
rivers originating in the hills. This has eroded land,
widened river banks and is now threatening the pursuit
of agriculture.
• The third landscape has varying locations that forms
part of the mid-high Himalayan system though with
smaller variances of altitude in the local context. This
region has an important role to play in meeting overall
ecological endowment needs and as such has too many
expectations from it, yet is moving to a state of extreme
fragility.
Map of the Area
Approach and Expected Outcome
• Based on the main perspectives of Satoyama
Initiative approach,
-that focus on ensuring that communities live in
harmony with nature
-with a clear emphasis on resource use within the
-carrying capacity and resilience of the environment,
-cyclic use of natural resources, recognition of the
value and importance of local traditions and
cultures,
-natural resource management by various
participating and cooperating entities, and
contributions to local socio-economies.
Some of the Outcomes Expected
• Enhanced provision of ecosystem services within the target landscapes
through conservation activities and sustainable use of natural resources.
• Improved agricultural productivity in the target landscape by promoting
sound and sustainable agricultural practices, resulting in increased food
security and income generation.
• Alternative livelihoods options promoted within the landscape to enable
access to markets and local financial institutions (SHGs).
• Institutional systems strengthened at the landscape level by promoting
sharing of knowledge and information on effective use of resources and
landscape related issues, and a more participatory decision making in the
target landscapes.
• A new learning having emerged and shared as a winning example of a
doable approach for others to emulate.
Actions based on
• Food and nutrition security: Food and nutrition security in
this area is directly associated with agriculture production. As
an example, traditionally grown millets and pulses while
highly nutritious are losing importance within cropping
systems, as noted at the Ranikhet location, due to lack of
access to markets.
• Land Improvement: The important aspect of land degradation
will be addressed at Rasulpur locations through improved
tree cover in the former and grasslands in the latter region.
Along with water conservation, soil conservation addressed.
• Dairying: Given the the relevance of integrated farminglivestock systems, dairying will also be promoted to add to
household income at Tadikhet.
Continued
• Tourism: At Pipalkoti, and Almora tourism constitutes a major
source of income for local communities given its proximity to
religious tourism sites where more than a million people visit
during a period of 4 months, as well as year-round from
nature based tourism.
• Developing an environmentally conscious tourism industry as
an ecosystem sensitive activity will help minimize negative
impacts to the landscape as well as increase livelihood
options for the poor of the region over the longer term.
• Water Mills and Energy Efficiency: An integrated approach
through a range of actions; Chulhas; Biogas; Water mills and
Micro hydels etc,,,
• Market and Value addition and increased incomes through
processing
The Strategy
Vision: Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes resilience
enhanced for the 2 districts of Almora/Ranikhet and
Gopeswar Uttrakhand through community led actions
Approach:
-Inception workshop with different stakeholders to have
common vision and ownerships on approach.
-Develop a common 4 page Strategy Paper for the stakeholders
-Using a more Participatory, process based, gender sensitive
approach encouraging mutual trust, respect and flexibility
-Select partners agreeing to be locally based in the area, have
local working experience, have a more sensitivity and long
term vision to the local concerns for SEPL.
-Proposals invited, approved and being implemented in the
agreed formats on a range of verifiable indicators of success
Contd…
• Consult and collaborate during the pre project phase local
knowledge from elders, local governments, opinion leaders and stakeholders
• Develop a baseline assessment of key landscape
performance indicators including conservation, production,
livelihood and institutional dimensions
• Develop ideas /activities both for livelihoods and
understanding landscapes with all stakeholders to assess
current status of the landscape across the multiple
dimensions – to initiate baseline assessment
• Sharing findings from the various tools with stakeholders to
mobilize interest and focus for desired change
• A set of agreed formats will be used for proposal &
monitoring on the projects
Issues / Challenge on each project (1-3) Examples
-Soil erosion and landslides due to agricultural and
farming practices in mountains
-Increasing intensity of rainfall and flash floods
-Unplanned infrastructural development and skewed
investments by private sector
-High out migration of local working age labour force
to cities for better wage incomes
-Un-coordinated Government action for landscape
planning and management
-Lack of technology interface and access etc…
Indicators: assess progress toward SI goal
S No
Project Activities
Verifiable Indicators
1
Village Meetings and Local
institutions set up.
-
No of meetings, held, documented,
records available in each local
institution/village
2
Women based Savings and Credit
Groups
Biodiversity-Forest Based:
--
-
No. of SHGs formed, savings, bank links
established, loans accessed
No. of species protected/conserved
3
4
Livestock based:
--
5
Biodiversity based- Crops
6
Energy related actions
-
This will be more completed during the workshops. More indicators will also be developed
Desired impacts across the landscape (on livelihoods,
environment/ecosystem services, institutions & production)
• Local community, kinship and common trade groups
established to address the local sustained actions for
SEPL
• Low cost, easy to understand and manage technologies
accessed, tried and tested for better results for
enhanced incomes and reduced drudgery
• Enhanced skills and confidence of - communities of
practice - of all age groups, gender and class for
sustained incomes from the local resources
• Increased natural resource base through integrated
land use planning of the landscapes
• Monitor the changes and outcomes at the individual,
institutional and policy levels.
Who needs to be involved?
Strategy
Who?
Deciding on an issue or
challenge
All stakeholders, including communities and local, District,
State and National Governments
Setting a goal for the
landscape
To be decided in the Stakeholders meetings.
Selecting, adapting and
measuring the indicators
-do-
Evaluating and reporting
on impacts
-do-
How do we begin a landscape
management process?
• Initiating integrated landscape management involves identifying a
core group of ‘landscape leaders’ who are motivated to join a small
team that will drive the process.
• The core group works to build interest and enthusiasm for
landscape management by opinion leaders and stakeholders in the
landscape,
• Address commonly recognized issues and/or to realize valuable
opportunities through collaboration and better understanding.
Steps in initiating a landscape
management process – project level
• Defining the landscape around commonly perceived
conservation , production and/or livelihood issues and
opportunities
• Identifying communities and organizations with clear
stakes in the issues and control over resources for realizing
new opportunities
• Forming a core team of landscape leader/facilitators from
these communities and organizations
• Identifying key characteristics, assets and opinion leaders
in local communities as well as public, private and civic
organizations
Value Added Green Products
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Hand Pounded Rice (Kalbhat)
‘Nachani’ Biscuits (Finger Millet)
Wheat ‘Kuradai’ (Chandoshi)
Honey (‘Madhuras’ harvested from
forest)
Wild Berry Pickle (Karvand)
Wild Berry Juice (Karvand)
Chilly Powder
Coriander Powder
‘Nachani’ Papad (Finger Millet)
Org. manure and pesticide by using
neem seed
Collection and conservation of
indigenous farm produces like
Devthan Bajra, Maldandi Jowar,
Chandoshi Wheat, Kalbhat Paddy
ginger
Expected Outcomes
The COMDEKS programme in India seeks to achieve the
following outcomes:
Outcome 1:
Enhanced provision of ecosystem services within the
target landscapes through conservation activities and
sustainable use of natural resources.
• Indicator 1.1: Number of hectares of degraded
ecosystems in the landscape brought under
sustainable resource management restored or
rehabilitated
• Indicator 1.2: Number of communities demonstrating
sustainable land and forest management practices.
Outcome 2:
Improved agricultural productivity in the target landscape
by promoting sound and sustainable agricultural
practices, resulting in increased food security and
income generation.
• Indicator 2.1: Number of hectares where more
sustainable land use practices are implemented by
type.
• Indicator 2.2: No of farm groups/communities and
farmers (disaggregated by gender) participating in
adoption of appropriate technologies and systems
including crop diversification, agroforestry, irrigated
agriculture, conservation farming, low cost renewable
technologies for drying, and energy efficiency
technologies, mixed farming-livestock systems, etc.
Outcome 3:
Alternative livelihoods options promoted within the
landscape to enable access to markets and local
financial institutions.
• Indicator 3.1: Number of alternative income
sources created through livelihood diversification
(i.e. dairying and ecotourism).
• Indicator 3.2: Number of participating community
members (gender disaggregated) benefitting by
project activities.
Outcome 4:
Institutional systems strengthened at the landscape level
by promoting sharing of knowledge and information on
effective use of resources and landscape related issues,
and a more participatory decision making in the target
landscapes.
• Indicator 4.1: Number of community-based institutions
created or strengthened who are engaged in integrated
landscape management.
• Indicator 4.2: Number of policy or plans influenced or
created at the national and community levels which
reflect decisions negotiated in a participatory manner
at the landscape level.
• Indicator 4.3: Number of COMDEKS lessons learned
from the project.