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INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION

ITTO

PROJECT PROPOSAL

TITLE SUSTAINABLE INDIGENOUS MIXED SPECIES REFORESTATION,

PLUS CLIMATE-RESILIENT WOMEN LIVELIHOODS IN SIX RURAL COMMUNITIES IN GHANA’S AKWAPIM AND UPPER KROBO DISTRICTS

SERIAL NUMBER PD 780/15 Rev.3 (F) COMMITTEE REFORESTATION AND FOREST MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY GOVERNMENT OF GHANA ORIGINAL LANGUAGE ENGLISH

SUMMARY This project is women-focused (in terms of gender justice and equality) and rural-based, which will be implemented in the Akwapim Rural and Upper Krobo Sub-Districts of the Eastern Region of Ghana. It will intends to initiate a participatory process that induces best practices which could lead to sustainable forest management (SFM) in Akwapim Rural and Upper Krobo private off-reserve forests in Ghana. The goal of the project is to practically demonstrate, nurture, and mutually promote the idea that professionally mixed indigenous tropical timber species used by women groups for reforestation activities on degraded off-reserve lands (with farmer-owner-suggested food and nutritious under-cropping systems), could be an important contribution in re-greening Ghana. The chosen indigenous tropical tree species for reforestation activities include Wawa, Ofram, Emire, Mansonia, Dahoma, Rosewood, and West African Mahogany. The project will contribute promoting rural wealth while alleviating poverty in selected local communities to be involved in its implementation.

EXECUTING AGENCY

PITRIS CONSULT COLLABORATING AGENCY FORESTS OF HOPE NGO DURATION 36 MONTHS APPROXIMATE STARTING DATE

TO BE DETERMINED

BUDGET AND PROPOSED SOURCES OF FINANCE

Contribution Local Currency Source in US$ Equivalent

ITTO

Gov’t of Ghana / EA TOTAL

403,570

106,820

510,390

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INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER ORGANIZATION ITTO

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Title: “Sustainable Indigenous Mixed Species Reforestation, PLUS Climate-Resilient Women

Livelihoods in Six Rural Communities in Ghana’s Akwapim and Upper Krobo Districts” PROJECT BRIEF

PD 780/15 Rev.3 (F) The existing situation, the former condition, and the problem to be addressed now: The target area of this Women’s Reforestation and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Project is located in the Rural Awapim and Upper Krobo Districts in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The entire private off-reserve forest resource area is very heavily degraded and deforested. This mishap is further worsened by the fact that the entire off-reserve resource area is NOT sustainably managed. The degree of forest degradation is so massive that multiple negative changes have occurred in private forest resources which seriously limit and hamper their productive capacities. The immediate forest-fringe rural communities are six in number. Together, these six-forest-dependent communities form an active participatory primary stakeholder block. Working along with secondary and tertiary stakeholders, the combined stakeholder-agents-of-change will, after discussions and negotiations, draw an integrated private forest plan leading to a planned 300-acre reforestation and natural regeneration promotion, as well as effectively introduce, on a permanent basis, the spirit and best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in the target off-reserve areas.

Between 1940 and 1969, the Rural Awapim and Upper Krobo District off-reserve private lands used to be rich high tropical forest zone and a very prolific high-class tropical hardwoods export center. The precious tropical commercial timber tree species THEN included: African Mahogany (Khaya spp.); Sapele(Entandophragma cylindricum); Celtis species (particularly Celtis zenkeri); Afromosia (Pericopsiselata); Iroko (Milicia excelsa); Utile (Entandophragma utile); Krumben (Khaya anthotheca); Kusia (Nauclea diderrichi); Dahoma (Piptadeniastrum); Ofram (Terminalia superba); Wawa (Triplochiton scleroxylon); and Oprono (Mansonia altissima), among others. The Key Problem is that, the Rural Awapim and Upper Krobo District off-reserve forests are heavily degraded and NOT sustainably managed. This situation has led to vast forest resource degradation and deforestation, very noticeable negative changes in the local mini-climate owing to massive release of CO2, extreme loss of biodiversity and productivity of forest functions, as well as destruction of forest-dependent women livelihoods. Climate-change has also had its aggressive negative tolls. The Development Objective is to significantly reduce forest degradation; enhance multiple forest productivity and resource functions (namely: productive, regenerative, protective, environmental, and social), as well as sustainable forest-related livelihoods in Rural Akwapim and Upper Krobo Off-Reserve Forests in Ghana. The SPECIFIC Objective is to initiate participatory reforestation, forest rehabilitation and management processes that significantly increase multiple forest use functions, rewards and benefits (especially for target local disadvantaged women), and administered under best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). The primary local beneficiaries are 180 poor and disadvantaged women farmers who earn averagely USD 2 a day, with low forestry skills, although they are very eager to champion the introduction of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in their local off-reserve private forests. Expected project OUTCOMES include significantly improved local forest rehabilitation capacity through community-based Collaborative Forest Management Committees (CFMCs) to nurture Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) practices in their local off-reserve forests. Active Collaborative Forest Management Committees (as Forest Management Units - FMUs) are the grassroots cradle for the effective development of ENABLING CONDITIONS FOR SFM where “enabling conditions” mean legal, economic, monitoring, regulating, and institutional framework for SFM as emphasized in the 2015 Revised ITTO (evolving concepts) on Criteria and Indicators for SFM.

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The MAIN PROJECT OUTPUTS are: Output 1: Stakeholders have reached consensus to significantly reduce deforestation and install

best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). Output 2: There is a negotiated and integrated private off-reserve Forest Management

PLAN endorsing land tenure streamlining plus best practices to reforest and promote natural regeneration of 300 acres aggregate of deforested land.

Output 3: Beneficiary stakeholders agreed on a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system.

Output 4: One hundred and eighty (180) disadvantaged project women beneficiaries are actively promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihoods that will quadruple their annual incomes from current USD 350 per year.

The project will be MUTUALLY IMPLEMENTED in an active participatory manner whereby all

project stakeholders will be considered as equal and respected partners in terms of suggestions, criticisms, responsibilities, and rights. Every 30-member community-based Collaborative Forest Management Committee will be the daily leverage arm of the SFM practices and objectives. The implementation mechanism will further include a local Technical Committee, as well as a Project Steering Committee to provide monitoring and evaluation advice and guidance.

PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY refers to IN-BUILT present, medium-term, and long-term project strategies that deal with project survival, growth, replication, and intended objective achievements - including right impact and profitability of the project especially when formal ITTO funding trends have ended. Our Project Sustainability Structures and Frameworks tailor-made to CHAMPION Economic, Technical, Financial, Management and Political aspects of SUSTAINABILITY include the following Self-Reliant ACTION POINTS: (a) Establishment and legal registration of “SIX Active Community-Based Assisting Husbands

Associations” made up of very hard-working household husbands who excelled in making sure their wives and the project succeed and grow in lips and bounds ever-after. Such husbands do

exist in the project area! (Managerial, Economic, and Financial Sustainability).

(b) Eighteen executive women from the livelihoods promotion sector will be trained and MERGED with the community-based 30-member Collaborative Forest Management Committees to play

the role of CATALYST-Agents-of-CHANGE). (Managerial Sustainability). (c) The opening of a Project Sustainability Bank Account at a local savings bank to help on

deserving project sustainability issues, with savings and drawing rights determined by the catalyst women executives mentioned in section “b” above. (Financial Sustainability).

(d) The opening of Disadvantaged Women’s Livelihood Products SELLING POINTS to facilitate Selling and Marketing of Project-made Livelihoods Products. (Additional Financial and Economic Sustainability).

(e) Legally registering and building the institutional capacity of the six community-based 30- Member Collaborative Forest Management Committees to serve as the official legal transformative conflict mediators and project representatives at the Ghana Forestry Commission on behalf of the beneficiary forest-fringe communities. The EA will link Project CFMCs to the Ghana Forestry Commission for further SFM inputs, assistance, and guidance as needs arise. (Managerial, Financial and Economic).

(f) The Project Executing Agency will keep an experienced nursery officer (as well as train energetic local self-motivated young man and woman) at the Central Project Nursery to produce a minimum of 250,000 selected project indigenous seedlings (and teak) for supply every year to

beneficiaries. (Technical Sustainability).

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(g) The Project Executing Agency will keep a strategic and responsive skeleton staff at project end to handle Forestry Skills Training Functions for three years. After that period, a firm structural and financial arrangement will be negotiated whereby the District Environmental Committee of the District Assembly would take over project matters and work with the CFMCs. (Managerial Sustainability).

(h) Organize “Meet the IMPORTANT Non-Project Group Leaders (Political, Religious, Traditional and Youth Peer-Group Leaders”) ONCE A YEAR in an OPEN-EXHIBITION-FAIR at the District Assembly Conference Room to publicize the project, receive criticisms and suggestions, and forge positive alliances and networks. (Political Sustainability).

3.5.1 ASSUMPTIONS and RISKS:

Key Assumptions Possible Risks Risk Mitigating FactorAT THE DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE LEVEL:

That all identifiable multi-level forestry and allied forest protection and rehabilitation stakeholders: namely, the district, provincial, and national institutional authorities (in their policy, guidance, monitoring, networking, and supportive complementary leverage levels) remain alive, and focused in terms of their basic mandate.

A probable risk is that, one or two stakeholders could unsatisfactorily relax in the discharge of their basic responsibilities.

It is best to work through sectorALLIANCES of like-minded forest improvement institutions using professional ADVOCACY, HIGH- PROFILE LOBBYING, and SHREWD, DIPLOMATIC ACTIVISM to effect positive change within UPPER Complementary Institutions whose performances are below average. Flexible but firm diplomacy is key that opens doors. Furthermore, it is useful for alliance networks to visit complementary institutions that are not pulling their weight in terms of satisfactory mandate execution in order to learn about their problems. Through sector ALLIANCES and / or NETWORKS, discuss the matter clean-heartedly with them, and obtain a negotiated solution.

AT THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE LEVEL: (a) THAT all identifiable project stakeholders including local actors like the Project Executing Agency, the participating project communities and CFMCs, as well as the direct project women beneficiaries remain focused and committed with respect to their roles, and play them effectively and in timely fashion. (b) THAT the Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission remains supportive and focused on Rehabilitation and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Outreach and Extension Programs.

A probable risk is that, one or two participating communities, or project beneficiary group could be found wanting in the discharge of their responsibilities.

(a) It will be useful for the Project Management Team to visit the said community (or group) as respected partners and friends to learn about the problem first hand. The visiting team members should be good listeners! Discuss the matter objectively with them, and a negotiated solution could be found

(b) Forest sector alliances and NGO private sector lobbies are effective when it comes to DEFAULTING Forestry Commission and Forest Services Division establishments. Project management will utilize such channels as and when necessary.

THAT there are no extreme climate events during the project implementation period.

A probable risk is that, there could be very undesirable climate change event factors during the project implementing period.

Project management must makefriends with the District and Regional Meteorological Services and seek help to analyze their climate and weather predictions. Do the same with Global Watch Services in the country.

Project Budget Amounts form the ITTO and Local contribution in USD:

Project Budget Amount Requested from the ITTO

Percentage of ITTO Budget Amount Allocated to Personnel

Percentage of ITTO Budget Amount Allocated to Capital Items

BUDGET CONTRIBUTION Made by the Executing Agency / Government of Ghana

USD 403,570

15% 20% USD 106,820

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Table of Contents of the ITTO Project Proposal Part HEADING Page

Project Brief 2 Table of Contents 6 List of Abbreviations and Acronyms 7 Map of the Project Area 8 Part 1 Project Context 9 1.1 Origin 9 1.2 Relevance 9 1.2.1 Conformity with ITTO’s Objectives and Priorities 9 1.2.2 Relevance to the Submitting Country’s Policies 111.3 Target Area 121.3.1 Geographic Location 121.3.2 Social, Economic, and Environmental Aspects 121.4 Expected Outcomes at Project Completion 14Part 2 Project Rationale and Objectives 172.1 Outputs and Activities 172.1.1 Institutional Setup and Organizational Issues 172.1.2 Stakeholder Analysis 172.1.3 Problem Analysis 202.1.4 Logical Framework Matrix 232.2 Objectives 252.2.1 Developmental Objective and Impact Indicators 252.2.2 Specific Objective and Outcome Indicators 25Part 3 Description of Project Interventions 263.1 Outputs and Activities 263.2 Implementation Approaches and Methods 283.3 Work Plan 313.4 Budget 323.4.1 Master Budget 32 - 333.4.2 Consolidated Budget by Component 34 - 353.4.3 ITTO Budget by Component 36 - 373.4.4 Executing Agency Budget by Component 383.5 Assumptions, Risks, and Sustainability 393.5.1 Assumptions and Risks 393.5.2 Sustainability 40Part 4 Implementation Arrangements 424.1 Organization Structure and Stakeholder Involvement Mechanisms 424.1.1 Executing Agency and Partners 434.1.2 Project Management Team 434.1.3 Project Steering Committee 444.1.4 Stakeholder Involvement Mechanisms 444.2 Reporting, Review, Monitoring and Evaluation 454.3 Dissemination and Mainstreaming of Project Learning 454.3.1 Dissemination of Project Results 454.3.2 Mainstreaming Project Learning 46Annex 1 Profiles of Executing and Collaborating Agencies 47Annex 2 Tasks and responsibilities of key experts provided by the EA 53

Annex 3

Terms of Reference for the Consultant-Sociologist who would conduct the Baseline Socio-Economic Survey

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Annex 4

Recommendations of the 51st ITTO Expert Panel / EA Modifications Made

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List of Abbreviations and Acronyms EA Executing Agency FMU Forest Management Unit FMNR Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration ITTA: International Tropical Timber Agreement ITTO: International Tropical Timber Organization NBSSI National Bureau of Small Scale Industries NTFP: Non-Timber Forest Products NGO: Non-Governmental Organization SMART: Specific, measurable, appropriate, realistic, time-bound. SFM: Sustainable Forest Management. STFC Sustainability Task Force Coordinator CFMC: Collaborative Forest Management Committee (Community-Based)

Useful contextual definitions to help the reader:

Project Out-Growers:

These are second-level project beneficiaries. They are local youths,local men and old women farmers who are enthusiastic independent tree planters. The project encourages them by registering them, monitoring them, and periodically provides them with healthy seedlings in the spirit of the project.

FMNR: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration is a low-cost sustainable land restoration

technique that involves the systematic regeneration and management of tree stumps, coppicing, and root sprouts.

(Map on the next page)

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Scale: 1 :65000 PD Teo/10 au(r) SELECTED RURAL AXWAPIM AND UPPER KROBO COMWUNITIBS EASTERN REGION CHANA

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Part 1: Project Context 1.1 The Origin of the Project

In March 2014, the Ghana National Coalition of NGOs organized a mini-trade fair at Madina near the City of Accra. “Made-in-Ghana” rural products were displayed and promoted during the 10-day rural-promotion fair. PITRIS CONSULT (the Executing Agency under ITTO Project PD 534/08 Rev. 1(F), and five of its women community executives were invited from the Asante Akyem District to display their products. A group of three women and two men from the Akwapim Rural Sub-District became very interested in Project PD 534/08 Rev. 1(F) and a study visit was arranged for them one month later at Nyiresi in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The visitors were very much enthused about the mixed species reforestation exercise promoted along with Moringa Products making. The visitors also learnt about the loop-holes of the old product. PITRIS CONSULT (the Executing Agency) was later invited to Adukrom in the new product area, where its officials had a series of field visits to interested communities and their representatives. The outcome of the discussions resulted in this project. The CRUCIAL QUESTIONS that this present intervention focuses on solving in a mutual manner include:

HOW can PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY be achieved?

WHAT should be done to ensure that the farmer beneficiaries do not go back to cut down the tree they have planted prematurely?

WHAT special COMBINATION of precious indigenous tropical hardwoodscan be planted that are also PROFESSIONALLY AGREEABLE?

Climate Change is resulting in poor rains, or too much rain during unexpected times – leading to further losses in household incomes. WHAT Climate Change ADAPTATION STRATEGIES can reverse trends and empower local women, for example, to embark on new creative and dynamic local livelihoods?

CAN AN INTERACTIVE Climate Change ADAPTATION TOOL-KIT be developed at the community level with important STAKEHOLDERS?

WHICH KINDS of new local STRENGTHS and weaknesses emerge?

This project therefore falls under multiple sub-divisions, namely:

THE THEME is basically farmer-land-owner suggested.

The mixed tropical indigenous tree species reforestation is on degraded private land, off-reserve. The main fast-growing tree species include Wawa (Triplochiton scleroxy), Ofram (Terminalia superb), Emire (Terminalia ivorensis), West African Mahogany, Rosewood (Dalgergia Latfilia), Mansonia altissima.About 65 per cent of the selected tree species are heavily threatened.

Other tropical women-livelihood-related cash-crop trees (farmer-suggested) to be planted include the Dawadawa tree (Parkia biglobosa), Wedeabaor Akli (Monodora myristica), Tweapia (Garcinia cola), Nsoko (Garcinia afzelii), and Baobab.

Farmer-suggested shape-tolerant under-cropping systems like sweet potatoes, peanuts, cow-peas, banana, plantain, cocoyams, under-cocoa yams, and ginger.

Other very valuable quick-yielding crops like miracle fruit berries (Syncepalum dulcificum). Yearly SALES of miracle fruit berries alone (to export Pharmaceutical Firms and Top Food and Restaurant Industries) can double the annual incomes of the project target WOMEN FARMERS. Miracle fruit berries are indigenous to the project area!

1.2 Relevance

THIS PROJECT is very RELEVANT in terms of conformity with(a) ITTO’s Objectives and Priorities, especially ITTA 2006 & ITTO Action Plan: 2013-2018, (b) Current Ghana National Development Policies. The details on these are explained below.

1.2.1. Conformity with ITTO’s Objectives and Priorities, ESPECIALLY ITTA 2006 & ITTO Action Plan: 2013-2018:

This project is in compliance with the International Tropical Timber Agreement 2006. Article 1 of the ITTA 2006 (OBJECTIVES) says: “The Objective of the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006, are to

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promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropic al timber from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests, and to promote the sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests” FURTHERMORE, Chapter 1, Article 1 (Objectives), Sub-Section “j” says: Encouraging members to support and develop tropical timber reforestation, as well as rehabilitation and restoration of degraded forest land, with due regard for the interests of local communities dependent on forest resources”.

OTHER RELEVANT Sub-Sections of the ITTA 2006 to which this PROJECT IS IN LINE WITH include:

ITTA 2006 “c”: “Contributing to sustainable development and to poverty alleviation”. THIS PROJECTcontributes to 180 women climate-resilient livelihoods

ITTA 2006 “d”:

“Enhancing the capacity of members to implement strategies for achieving exports of tropical timber and timber products from sustainably managed sources”. The main thrust of this project is “REFORESTATION and Sustainable Forest Management at local level

ITTA 2006 “f”: “Promoting and supporting research and development with a view to improving forest management, as well as increasing the capacity to conserve and enhance other forest values in timber producing tropical forests”. This project’s CFMCs are trained to provide this service.

ITTA 2006 “j”: “Encouraging members to support and develop tropical timber reforestation, as well as rehabilitation and restoration of degraded forest land, with due regard to for the interests of local communities dependent on forest resources”. The main thrust of this project is “REFORESTATION and Sustainable Forest Management at local level

ITTA 2006 “m”: “Encouraging members to develop national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of timber producing forests, and maintaining ecological balance in the context of the tropical timber trade”. This project promotes indigenous species as a National Policy FOCUS.

ITTA 2006 “r”: “Encouraging members to recognize the role of forest dependent indigenous and local communities in achieving sustainable forest management and develop strategies to enhance the capacity of these communities to sustainably manage tropical timber producing forests”. This project’s community-based CFMCs assisted to enhance there operational capacity to be active players in stopping degradation and champion Sustainable Forest Management (SFM).

OTHER RELEVANT EXPLANATIONS Regarding Close Relationships Between THIS PROJECT, ITTA 2006, and the ITTO Action Plan: 2013-2018:

THIS PROJECT, in the true spirit of ITTA 2006 and the ITTO Action Plan: 2013-2018, contributes – through the

supportive women livelihoods program - to POVERTY ALLEVIATION and sustainable local development with specific reference to 180 targeted marginalized poor women in the forest -fringe communities. REFORESTATION WITH ACCOMPANYING LEGAL LAND OWNERSHIP TITLE DEEDS (by these same poor women groups), on degraded land, with agreeable under-cropping, further enriches the natural tropical forest resource base. The project further contributes to IMPROVED COLLABORATIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT and massive tropical hardwood timber production with useful domestic and export value. The project provides a valuable platform for local forest-dependent communities to enhance their capacity in managing their potentially PRODUCTIVE tropical forest resources sustainably. The intervention additionally contributes to local Ghanaian Policy Framework on forest rehabilitation, using proven indigenous tree species.

ITTA 2006 therefore acknowledges that ITTO work and the implementation of ITTO ACTION PLANS focus on: (i) Deforestation, and how to significantly reduce it through resource rehabilitation, restoration, and participatory forest protection processes and practices; (ii) Poverty alleviation as an integral part of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM); Enhancement of Tropical forests and their products, as well as ecosystem services improvement and their fair distribution; (iii) The fact that, in many countries, responsibility for the management of forest resources is increasingly being transferred to the Private Sector through a range of contractual arrangements and to local indigenous communities. FURTHERMORE, this project therefore supports ITTO work, and the ITTO ALSO DIRECTLY SUPPORTS the professional activities of FAO, the UNFCCC, CITES, CIFOR, Global Forest Partnerships, and UN -REDD and Allied Professional Foresters Organizations. Current ITTO Action Plan also vigorously promote (a) reforestation on private degraded land, off-reserve; (b) natural resource rehabilitation; (c) Poverty alleviation of rural disadvantaged people, especially women.

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This project is ALSO in conformity with the ITTO Strategic Action Plan 2013-2018, especially the Strategic Priorities Sub-Sections quoted below: ITTO Strategic Priorities for 2013-2018:

Strategic Priority

Brief Relevant Details

Strategic Priority 1

“Promote good governance and enabling policy frameworks for strengthening SFM andrelated trade and enhancing SFM financing and investment.

Develop approaches that financing from all sources for SFM and increase investment in the forest sector.

Support to production and marketing of legally produced tropical timber and effective chain supply management.

Strengthen capacity of communities and other small and medium-size enterprises”.


“Increase the contribution of tropical forests to national and local economies, including through international trade.

Assist communities and forest-based enterprises with business skills including marketing”.


“Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in timber producing forests. Further develop and disseminate guidelines for conservation and sustainable use

of biodiversity in timber producing forests”.

Strategic Priority 4 “Reduce tropical deforestation and forest degradation, and enhance the provision ofenvironmental services”.

Creating enabling conditions for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. Demonstration successful approaches at the community or forest management

unit level.”

Strategic Priority 6 “Build and develop human resource capacity to implement SFM.

Provide assistance to national and regional institutions for training. Assisting members to support research and development. Strengthen involvement of stakeholders in the work and activities of the ITTO

through CSAG and TAG”

This Project’s “Specific Objective” clearly illustrates the COMMON UNITING LINE that runs through ITTO Strategic Priorities 1 to 6 for 2013 to 2018 as follows:

That COMMON UNITING LINE is well expressed in this project’s “Specific Objective” which says: “To initiate participatory reforestation, forest rehabilitation and management processes that significantly increase multiple forest use functions, rewards and benefits (especially for target local disadvantaged women), and administered under best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)”.

FURTHERMORE, active forest-fringe community-level “Collaborative Forest Management Committees – CFMCs” (as strongly championed in this Project Proposal) are the grassroots cradle for the effective development of ENABLING CONDITIONS for SFM where “enabling conditions” mean legal, economic, monitoring, regulating, and institutional framework for SFM as emphasized in the 2015 Revised ITTO Criteria and Indicators for SFM.

1.2.2 Details on Project Relevance to the Submitting Country’s Policies (Ghana):

Ghana’s Forest Sector is governed by a hierarchy of policies and regulations which have been developed and modified over time. The Ghana National Constitution of 1992, the 1994 and 2014-Revised Ghana Forest and Wildlife Policy, the Timber Resources Management Regulations, 1998 (LI 1649), andthe Timber Resources Management (Amendment) Regulations, 2003 (LI 1721), the Trees and Timber Management (Amendment) Act, 1994 (Act 493), the Administrator of Stool Lands Act, 1962 (Act 123), and the Forest Plantation Development Fund (Amendment) Act, 2002 (Act 623), are important legal documents that affect commercial reforestation issues in Ghana. Ghana has undertaken a mixture of complementary measures and programs aimed at realizing the forests improvement schemes of the country. Thematically, Current GhanaReforms include:

Reforestation on private degraded land, off-reserve.

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Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions

Brief Details

(a) Social and Power Relations The target area is a male-dominated society where women have very little say in societal affairs. The male stakeholders have however agreed to give degraded land for this project.

(b) Ethnicity: Akan-speaking mainly, along with Krobos (second largest group). And Ewes

(c ) Demography:

(a) Highly heterogeneous in terms of ethnicity. (b) Approximately27,600 overall population (i.e. all six communities combined) according to the AD 2010 Ghana Population Census. (c) Population growing at the rate of 2.4% annually. (d) Women constitute 53 per cent of the total population, with a very high child dependency rate. (e) Average household size = 6-7 people. (f) High rural-urban

Natural resource rehabilitation, conservation and protection. Poverty alleviation, especially with respect to disadvantaged rural WOMEN in forest-fringe communities.

Ensuring an equitable distribution of natural resource benefits to communities, resource owners, and farmers as a way of facilitating effective participation of all relevant stakeholders in the sustainable management of resources.

Transparent and efficient allocation of timber resources through competitive bidding and controls against over exploitation of timber.

Appropriate pricing of timber andforest products in order to increase revenue.

Mobilization of illegal chainsaw operators into alternative productive ventures, and by so doing minimize illegal chainsaw operations.

Rationalization of the timber industry and the adoption of fiscal as well as market-based incentives that improve the efficiency of the industry while at the same time encouraging down-stream processing of wood products.

The development of an extensive forest plantation program, so as to promote BIODIVERSITY and bridge the wood deficit in the timber industry while improving upon general environmental quality.

Improve incentives so as to ensure sustainability.

National and district data base development on Climate Change Adaptation issues as these affect the fortunes of Forestry, Agriculture, and Livelihoods.

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The Target Area of the Project

The project is located entire in the Eastern Region of Ghana, specifically in rural Akwapim and Upper Krobo Districts. (Kindly see the relevant Map attached on Page 8). The area used to be a rich, moist, and semi-deciduous tropical forest. Now, it is a disgracefully degraded and deforested land.

1.3.1 Geographic Location

The SIX Project Rural Communities are: (a) Huhunya-Upper Krobo, (b) Otekpolu-Upper, Krobo and (c) Otrokpe-Upper Krobo; (d) Amanfro and its satellite Akwapim cottages, (e) Akwapim-Mintakrom, close to Nyensi, and (f) Nyensi – all in the EASTERN Region of Ghana

1.3.2 Social, Economic, and Environmental Aspects of the Target Area:

The target area is very rural, disadvantaged, and poverty abounds. Poor rural women form 53 per cent of the population. Infant mortality is above the national average. The following chart helps the reader to further understand the local rural contexts that contribute to create the project contextual problem:

migration rate partly as a result of depleted local natural resources, adverse climate change effects, collapse of several traditional livelihoods, and high local unemployment and underemployment rate.

(d) Major Occupations and Average Income:

(a) Peasant farmers = 63%; (b) Petty traders = 19%; (c ) Public servants = 2%. (d) Petty artisans & others = 16%. Average disposable incomes per head range from $360 - $510 per year.

(e) Land Titles, and Present Status of Local Secondary Forests

A mixture of allodial title and customary free-holdings, Family land (35%) and individual holdings (10%). The secondary forest has been devastated and heavily degraded. Local village chiefs, their elders, and male family heads have agreed to provide all the project land. They have also agreed to provide appropriate legally registered land ownership title deeds to all the women who would undertake the reforestation exercise.

1.3.2.1 Target Beneficiaries

Specific Beneficiary Target Communities / Groups

Output Products How will project information be disseminated to stakeholders?

Local self-organized village farmers’ groups (90% mothers’ (or women’s groups) in SIX rural communities. At least 180 women will be direct beneficiaries. The communities are:

Amanfro and its satellite Akwapim cottages,

Mintakrom (near Nyensi), Nyensi, Huhunya-Upper Krobo, Otekpolu-Upper, Krobo

and Otrokpe-Upper Krobo, all

in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Planted tree species including Wawa, Ofram, Emire, West African Mahogany, Rosewood, Odum / Iroko (Milicia excels), Papao, Dahoma, Baku, Asanfena-Bere,Otie, and Utile. Other multi-purpose tree species include: Dawadawa tree (Parkia biglobosa), Wedeabaor Akli (Monodora myristica), Tweapia (Garcinia cola), Nsoko (Garcinia afzelii), and Baobab.

Under-crops are sweet potatoes, peanuts, cow-peas, banana, plantain, coco-yams, yams, ginger and sweet miracle berries as appropriate.

Through, for example:

House-to-house project community animators.

Group meeting sessions. Group training sessions. Whole community

meetings Local school/ Church

assemblies. Through planned Project

Open Days. .Local FM radio. Local traditional gong-

gong information disseminators

(2) Local project village and nearby rural citizenry in general

- As Above - - As Above -

(3) Environmental Researchers, Nutrition Researchers and Scientists

The project’s documented reports and workshop results.

- As Above -

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Climate: The average annual rainfall (in mm) for Upper Krobo (i.e. Manya Krobo) is as follows:

J Fe M A M June July A S O N D Total

9 58 101 150 188 256 210 170 168 159 81 30 1,596

Mild tornadoes and electric storms are common at the beginning of the year and at the end of the rainy season. South-west winds blow from April to November. In the dry harmattan season (December to February) hazy winds with suspended particles are common.

THE SOILS vary from heavy loam, to light loam, rich clays, and gravels. The six communities are all farming areas where the inhabitants (men and women) struggle to earn USD2 to USD4 daily growing mixed staple crops under very obsolete technology.

Composition and Condition of the Forest: The target forest area is a mixture of THREE forest sub - zones: (a) Open high forest (19 per cent); (b) Heavily degraded high forest (57 per cent); (c) Transition zone

shading into savanna (24 per cent). Presently, scattered tropical tree species seen include: Ceiba petandra, Cola gigantean, Triplochiton scleroxylon, Antiaris toxicaria, Terminalia superba, Piptadeniastrumafricanum, (Dahoma), Celtis spp., occasional young trees of Iroko, and pycnanthus angolensis. (Source: Koforidua Regional FSD Office.

1.4 Expected Outcomes at Project Completion

Expected Project Outputs and Outcomes at the end of the projects include the following:

Output 1: Stakeholders have reached consensus to significantly reduce deforestation and install best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). Output 2: There is a negotiated and integrated private off-reserve Forest Management PLAN endorsing land tenure streamlining plus best practices to reforest and promote natural regeneration of 300 acres aggregate of deforested land. Output 3: Beneficiary stakeholders agreed on a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system. Output 4: One hundred and eighty (180) disadvantaged project women beneficiaries are actively promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihoods that will quadruple their annual incomes from current USD 350 per year. (See Section 1.4.1)

51st Expert Panel Suggestion and Modifications: Further improvements in the description of outcomes at project completion in terms of (specific objective) outcome indicators: In order to understand this section of our (further) explanations effectively, it is important to DISTINGUISH between TWO TYPES of PROJECT DELIVERABLES, namely: (a) INTANGIBLE Project Outcomes are very important, but they can be very difficult to precisely measure, and often have medium and long-term (desirable) results. In our context here, some examples include improved community image of (project-established) Community Collaborative Forest Management Committees (CFMCs), who, as local agents of forest improvement change, solidly complement the reforestation efforts of the project community women; (b) TANGIBLE Project Outputs like training programs designed to instill or refresh reforestation or livelihood job skills. In the explanatory chart below, we emphasize more on “intangible specific objective outcomes”. Output Number

Further description of OUTCOMES at project completion in terms of (specific objective) outcome indicators

Output 1: Stakeholders have

Primary project stakeholders, APART FROM applying best forestry practices to rehabilitate, reforest, and sustainably

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reached consensus to significantly reduce deforestation and install best practices of Sustainable Forest Management.

manage 300 acres (aggregate) of deforested private forest resources – ARE ALSO EXHIBITING desirable and sustained attitudinal changes, and positively progressive community perspectives on the advantageous benefits of healthy forest resources - and therefore the urgent need to ensure healthy and rejuvenated forest resource systems. This is a CONVICTION!

Output 2: There is a negotiated and integrated private off-reserve Forest Management PLAN endorsing land tenure streamlining plus best practices to reforest and promote natural regeneration of 300 acres (aggregate) of deforested land.

The OUTCOME indicator that stands out here is that, since there are often conflicting demands on local forest resources, the best way to ensure fairness, sustainability, accountability, and durability is for stakeholders to freely discuss, negotiate, and reach consensus. Land and tree tenure systems in the project communities have therefore been formally discussed, negotiated, clarified, legalized, and simplified, with the incorporation of vital advantageous gender-conscious perspectives. Furthermore, the documented and incorporated land and tree tenure systems have resulted in lasting win-win outcomes in terms of benefits for local project women reforestation developers as well as local male youth land rehabilitation promoters. The SEED OF CERTAINTY is democratically injected.


THE BASIS of a JUST LAW IN RESOURCE SHARING IS SIMPLICITY and avoidance of conflict of laws. This is an effective reasonably measurable OUTCOME. Specific legal land title documents have been provided for the 180 individual and / or group reforestation beneficiaries. The project women re-foresters are legally entitled to 100 per cent of their harvested timber trees.

Output 4: One hundred and eighty disadvantaged project women beneficiaries are actively promoting climate-resilient livelihoods that will quadruple their annual incomes from current USD 350 per year.

A measurable outcome here is greater community satisfaction and trust in climate-resilient products, which further go to improve the local image of the project women groups as sustainable contributors to community livelihoods, wealth, health, and welfare during these turbulent times! Some specific thriving women livelihood businesses include:

Medicinal Noni Plant Plantations. Early crop (climate-resilient) plantain plantations. Early crop (climate-resilient) yam plantations. “Hair-Plenty” women’s hair food pomade Others.

In other words, the initiated participatory resource reforestation, rehabilitation, and man agement processes have significantly increased multiple forest-use functions, benefits, and rewards, especially for targeted local disadvantaged women, and administered under best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM).

For the project to be SUSTAINED in the immediate, medium and long term, there must be EFFECTIVE ATTITUDINAL CHANGE among both primary and secondary stakeholders in the project area that appreciates:

Sustainable forest management, and the need to effectively use and maintain the project outputs

(including reforestation, forest rehabilitation, restoration, and conservation – in the true spirit of the project)

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Effective economic, concerted, and sustainable use of local land as a useful but scarce natural resource (within a dynamic context of Global Warming, Climate Change, and the need for mutual efforts at developing community-level climate adaptation-conscious livelihoods!);

Thriving mini-local forests have favorable mini-weather implications. Thriving professional private forests can bring in USD 563,000 in the short term to the 180 beneficiary village women and their households.(See Section 1.4.1). The WIDER PROJECT VALUE will economically improve the lives of 8,600 inhabitants (talking in district-wide terms), including particularly children and women. Promoted climate-resilient livelihoods will quadruple the current annual per head income of US$350. Sustainable and lasting project OUTCOMES must therefore raise local AWARENESS (through the projects Collaborative Forest Management Committee functions) regarding healthy forests and thriving ecosystems. Project OUTCOMES therefore are planned MUTUAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES designed to bring about PERMANENT CHANGE in the primary project stakeholders’ KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, and RELATED PLANNED SKILLS.

1.4.1 Calculation of Profitability of the Project Women Livelihood Products in USD

Edible “KENKEY” from Local Whole Grain Maize

**

“Awakye” (Local Rice and Local Beans)

**

AssortedNutrient- Rich BREAD (with locally grown spices)

****

AssortedNutrient- Rich BISCUITS (with locally grown spices)

****

Plantain Cultivation

***

Early Season YAM Cultivation

****

Cultivation of the Royal Noni Medicinal Plant (so as to sell the fruits)

****

FashionHair Pomade: “HAIR PLENTY” (for men and women)

***** Quantity produced

30 tons

50 tons

15,000tons 15,000

tons

1,800plants

2,000tubers

2,400 Tree plants

10,000Tons

Total Sales Revenue / per year

180,000

10,000

19.000** 19,000** 5,400 6,000

28,800 90,000

Cost of sales / per year

8,000

4,000

13,000 13,000 1,200 2,000

7,200 30,000

Gross Yearly Profit

100,000

6,000

6,000 6,000 4,200 4,000

21,600 (By the end of Year 3)

60,000

Three Year Gross Profit

300,000

18,000

18,000 18,000 12,600 12,000

180,000

TOTAL: Gross Yearly Profits USD 187,800 (TAX EXEMPTED BY GHANA LAW) TOTAL: Three Year Gross Profits USD 563, 400 (TAX EXEMPTED BY GHANA LAW)NB: 1. Project livelihood products made by the disadvantaged women have been exempted from tax. 2. It is assumed that all products produced will be sold domestically in Ghana and along the border with Togo**

Explanatory Notes Regarding the “Calculation of Profitability of the Project Women Livelihood Products in USD” (US$1 = 3.5 GHC) The 2015 statistics for the calculation of products’ profitability are based on published information from:

Ghana Women Food Vendors Platform: Statistics Division, Accra (Shown as ** on the Chart). Ghana Food and Allied Edibles Association: Eastern Regional Branch: Koforidua (Shown as ** on the Chart) Ghana Mixed Crop Producers Forum, Koforidua, Ghana (Shown as *** on the Chart). Ghana Export Promotion Council: fresh Agricultural Products Section, Kumasi. (Shown as **** on the Chart) Association of Ghana Industries (AGI): SME Statistics Division, Accra. (Shown as ***** on the Chart)

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Part 2 Project Rationale and Objectives

2.1 Outputs and Activities The activities and outputs of this project were arrived at through a participatory process of multiple interactive meetings and discussions. They include the need to reforest (with reference to our limited resources) 200 acres of degraded private land, and rehabilitate – through enrichment planting and guided natural regeneration promotion) an additional 100 acres of deforested land (belonging to at least 90 women inhabitants). This calls for land title solutions (that benefit the women beneficiaries, as well as seedlings production, land preparation, seedlings transplanting, and maintenance activities. Regarding women livelihoods promotion, there was the need to conduct a Community-Level Climate Change Adaptation Analysis and prepare a Community-Level Climate Change Adaptation TOOLKIT. We realized that, local forest improvement and management is an interactive process that includes conflicts, constructed consensus development, and mature conflicts handling procedures. To do this effectively, the project formulators had to do multiple stakeholder analysis.

2.1.1 Institutional Set-Up and Organizational Issues

The target area is served by two Forest Ranges who serve under the District Forest Office. These two forestry institutions are heavily under-resourced. That is one of the reasons why community leaders were attracted to PITRIS CONSULT, the Project Executing Agency. PITRIS CONSULT (the Executing Agency under ITTO Project PD 534/08 Rev. 1(F), and five of its women community executives were invited from the Asante Akyem District to display their products. A group of three women and two men from the Akwapim Rural Sub-District became very interested in Project PD 534/08 Rev. 1(F) and a study visit was arranged for them one month later at Nyiresi in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The visitors were very much enthused about the mixed species reforestation exercise promoted along with Moringa Products making.

The Collaborating Women NGO (“FORESTS of Hope NGO”) provided the professional food experts and dieticians who professionally taught over 300 rural women to be proficient in the making of multiple vegetable-based bakery products on ITTO Project PD 534/08 Rev. 1(F) just successfully completed. That is how this project’s stakeholders and beneficiaries settled on FORESTS OF HOPE NGO as an experienced and trusted partnership institution. A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) has therefore been prepared and agreed among the two organizations (namely: PITRIS CONSULT, the main executing agency and “Forests of Hope NGO”, which is the project women livelihoods promotion expert.

2.1.2 Stakeholder Analysis Akwapim Rural and Upper Krobo Project aims at achieving the following output and outcomes:

Output 1: Stakeholders have reached consensus to significantly reduce deforestation and install best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). Output 2: There is a negotiated and integrated private off-reserve Forest Management PLAN endorsing land tenure streamlining plus best practices to reforest and promote natural regeneration of 300 acres aggregate of deforested land. Output 3: Beneficiary stakeholders agreed on a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system. Output 4: One hundred and eighty (180) disadvantaged project women beneficiaries are actively promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihoods that will quadruple their annual incomes from current USD 350 per year. (See Section 1.4.1)

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THE TARGETED WOMEN’s GROUPS ARE NOT HOMOGENOUS, although poverty is a common denominator:

The total all inclusive population of the six project communities is twelve thousand and eight hundred (aggregate). Seven thousand of them are WOMEN. Eighty per cent of the women population are marginalized and poor disadvantaged citizens, mainly impoverished farmers and low-class food vendors, who live on less than two and a half USA dollars per day. The project women often live in households with five people on the average (nucleus family). This project is MAINLY ABOUT THIS CATEGORY OF RURAL DISADVANTAGED WOMEN. The other twenty per cent of the women folk are local primary school teachers, nurses, financially-struggling hair dressers, and low-ranking secretaries in the local District Assembly.

51st Panel Suggestion and Modification: Further Improvement of the Stakeholder Analysis: More information in relation to gender-based differences in forest resource access The word “access” in this project context implies a right to enter a forest resource for benefit purposes or the right to be admitted to the use of a forest land resource. TRADITIONALLY, the entire project area follows a paternal inheritance system whereby male children have first and priority access to their parents’ family land including freehold clan land resources. HOWEVER, with the advent of western education, Ghana’s political independence in 1957, and the proliferation of gender-conscious natural resource use legislation in the country over the past sixty years, the pendulum has swung in favor of gender-conscious justice and fairness in forest land ownership and usufruct rights. It is this new social democratic and favorable women-conscious development that this project has taken advantage of to successfully negotiate for full and unqualified land ownership and forest resource access for all the 180 project reforestation women beneficiaries. The land rights and women-rights-in-trees to be enjoyed by the project women therefore are fully backed by stakeholders’ understanding, negotiation, and Ghana state national law. HOW the women groups were selected is explained IN GREAT DETAIL in PART 1 Sub-section 1.1, namely, in the “Origin of the Project” and also under the 51st Panel Overall Assessment Page.

Primary Stakeholders:

Stakeholder Group Characteristics Problem, Needs,Interests

Potentials Involvement in theProject

Rural women land users and owners.

The target project women are marginalized and poor disadvantaged citizens, mainly impoverished farmers and low- class food vendors, who live on less than two and a half USA dollars per day. They lack formal title on the forests they occupy, which militates against long-term improvement.

Lands without titleprovide limited improvement options. BOTH the male and the female-farmer project target groups have very limited disposable incomes, which make it difficult for them to achieve their land improvement business start-up objectives.

Strong desire toenjoy technical and financial assistance from reputable institutions like the ITTO so as to develop their mutual capacity to significantly increase their incomes from forest resources as well as SUSTAINLY Rehabilitate and Manage their local forests.

Primary women projectbeneficiaries actively involved in:

(a) Local Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation analysis. (b) Activity planning.

(c) Implementation. (d)

Benefits Sharing. (e)

Project Monitoring Review, and Evaluation

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Community Family Heads (often male)

Holders of allodial land title on behalf of the larger family.

Want to improve degraded forests, but multiple conflicting interests exist.

Strong desire to double the incomes of their women and family members

Resource Use negotiation sessions.

Women Land Title Documents Preparation

Planning. Monitoring and

Evaluation.

Community-based NGOs

They have the capacity (with others) to guide SFM programs.

Lack resources andequipment

They have capable personnel, ready to help improve upon forest resources.

Land use planning and advice.

Monitoring and Evaluation.

Local Village Chiefs and Queen Mothers

Technically, they possess enormous traditional and political power.

Need to improve their capacity to serve community members in terms of degraded forest improvement

Strong desire to enjoy technical and financial assistance from reputable institutions like the EA, and ITTO.




Evaluation.

Secondary Stakeholders:

Stakeholder Group Characteristics Problem, Needs,

Interests Potentials Involvement in the

Project

Local Forest Rangers

Provide forest-related extension services to the community

Need complementary resources to operate effectively.

Have the technical capacity to organize SFM functions




Evaluation.

District Forestry Office

Trained to provide forest-related extension services to the community, although often have cash and transport problems.

Require complementary resources to operate effectively.

Have the technical capacity to organize SFM functions and train CFMCs



Planning. Provision of

outreach and forestry extension assistance

Monitoring and Evaluation.

District Agricultural Ministry

Trained to provide agro forestry-related extension services to the community and the Women Livelihoods Promotion Groups, although often have cash and transport problems.

Require complementary resources to operate effectively.

Have the technical capacity to organize SFM functions


Assistance in the execution of the women livelihoods program


Evaluation.

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2.1.3 Problem Analysis

THE KEY PROBLEM is that, Rural Akwapim and Upper Krobo off-reserve forests are heavily degraded and unsustainably managed. The EFFECTS include very noticeable negative changes in the local mini-climate owing to massive release of CO2, extreme loss of biodiversity and productivity of forest functions, as well as destruction of forest-dependent livelihoods of disadvantaged poor women. The CAUSES of the problem can be found in the historical, environmental, and socio-economic context. Such causal contexts include intensive human interventions, namely: slash and burn agriculture, wild fires, haphazard chain-saw trees cutting, as well as unsustainable domestic firewood and fodder demands. The conflicting and competing forest demands negate meaningful and sustainable resource management. The end results include soil erosion, and a steady worsening (across-board) of forest productivity and biodiversity aspects of the local resource. Additionally, forest-based livelihoods of local vulnerable groups like marginalized women are destroyed beyond recognition! Since local forest-resource-extracting women are the king-pins of household survival, the entire future of the rural community is dangerously threatened. The above undesirable situation is FURTHER AGGRAVATED by traditional patriarchal and unjust land tenure system which breeds INSECURITY and serves as a DISINCENTIVE to women tree planters. USER RIGHTS in trees and tree harvesting rights and benefits for women remain unclear and inequitable. The project will provide an active participatory stakeholders’ REMEDIAL PLATFORM regarding a negotiated LAND TENURE STREAMLINING SYSTEM that will guarantee legally-registered LAND OWNERSHIP TITLE DEEDS for 180 disadvantaged target local project women.

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THE FIRST STEP is to undertake a participatory Socio-Economic Survey of the area during which an active CAMPAIGN will be launched to effectively convince local community stakeholders to STOP THE WANTOM DEGRADATION and PREVENT further self-inflicting damage to forest and soil. In order to REVERSE the multiple destructive trends and eradicate the problem, there is the need to simultaneously address the livelihoods concerns of the local disadvantaged women who form a large percentage of the population. Such a multiple-focused intervention calls for participatory problem analysis, project identification, project design, consultations, negotiations, participatory activity-chain creation, as well as participatory project monitoring, review, and evaluation. In other words, this project will INDUCE local professional ecological improvement, sustainable forest management practices, as well as stable and higher livelihoods incomes for poor disadvantaged women through a participatory promotion of selected CLIMATE-RESILIENT Livelihoods. WHY “CLIMATE-RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS?” WHAT are “CLIMATE-RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS?”

(2.1.3.1) WHY ISTHE PROJECT TITLE FRAMED THE WAY IT IS?

WHY IS THE PROJECT TITLE FRAMED THE WAY IT IS: namely “Sustainable Indigenous Mixed Species Reforestation PLUS Climate-RESILIENT Women Livelihoods”. ANSWER: The answer to this question is inextricably linked to the “PROBLEM ANALYSIS” done above. In order to have an EFFECTIVE women-focused rural reforestation program on heavily degraded land, the participatory intervention ought to be professionally linked with the targeted marginalized women’s dependable livelihoods, particularly in a case like ours where women form 52 per cent of the chosen area’s population. CLIMATE CHANGE is wrecking untold confusion, stress, and damage to multiple, previously dependable rural women livelihoods in the project area. HOWEVER, Climate Change is ALSO OPENING UP subtle forest-related livelihood OPPORTUNITIES for disadvantaged women in the target area. IT IS THESE SUBTLE NEW LIVELIHOOD OPENINGS and UNTAPPED OPPORTUNITIES, as well as the OLD, PROVEN, CLIMATE-SHOCK-SURVIVING LIVELIHOODS (together) that we refer to in this revised project proposal title as “CLIMATE-RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS. Successful promotions of such climate- resilient livelihoods for poor women are very CRUCIAL for the SUSTAINABILITY of the entire forest rehabilitation and reforestation exercise! These “Climate Resilient Livelihoods” were suggested by 30 local women in stakeholders’ pre-project planning workshop organized in the area. Marginalized women’s livelihoods (in a forest-fringe community) are sustainable when they can cope with, and recover from destructive stress and shocks, as well as maintain and enhance their capacities, WITHOUT UNDERMINING the surrounding forests’ natural resource base including normal rehabilitation functions and benefits.

(2.1.3.2) WHAT ARE “Signed Community-Based Agreements?”

“SIGNED COMMUNITY-BASED AGREEMENTS” are negotiated community-level duties and responsibilities

agreed upon in “PROJECT-STAKEHOLDERS-ACTION FORUMS”. They help to move the project forward in the right direction. They relate to forest resource protection, rehabilitation, and sustainable forest management issues. They also include continuous monitoring, review, and evaluation functions that are often part of the rights and responsibilities of primary project beneficiary stakeholders under a normal SFM culture. The negotiated self-affirmed duties in the “SIGNED AGREEMENTS” are entirely community- suggested (based on community capacity) though guided by Proj ect Management, in order to keep functions focused.

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Rural Akwapim and Upper Krobo Private Off- Reserve Forests are Heavily Degraded and Unsustainably Managed

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Primary stakeholders have different interests In land use and management

There is NO integrated land use and resource management PLAN

Harvested resource rewards are unfairly distributed

THE PROBLEM TREE

The forest resource base Is extremely Massive C02 Is degraded owing to being released to Productivity and LIVELIHOODS of conflicting perceptions dangerous levels Biodiversity women are of forests. damaging climate. at low ebb being destroyed

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Stakeholders Self-defeating Women are NOT land use have no MOBILIZED systems legal ownership

Women are INSTITUTIONS to LAND TENURE apathetic to tackle the Systems ARE establishing problems UNCLEAR tree estates are absent

NO Active Forestry Office

No active

CONSULTATION has WEAK promotion of timber resources

PLATFORMS CONTROL and NTFPs

Serious G.APS are POST-LOGGING

created in resource MONITORING Is

REH.ABILITATION NON-EXISTENT

The old unhealthy Regional Forestry resource condition has POOR over- GETS AGGRAVATED lord CONTROL

Forest functions have improved

Reserve forests are sustainably managed

Sustainable women livelihoods have significantly improved

forest management Integrated forest EFFICIENT Forest U

EXISTS among stakeholders

management PLAN

prepared and systems adopted by

stakeholders

IMPLEMENTED

THE OBJECTIVE TREE

Recovery of degraded private forest resources Is en.sured

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Rural Akwapim and Upper Krobo Private forests are revamped and sustainably managed

' . A CONSENSUS on

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MOBILIZATION of

Stakeholders duly

UNDERTAKEN

Inter-Institutional

COORDINATION

STRENGTHENED

SUSTAINABLE

Stakeholder

CONSULTATIVE

STRUCTURES CREATED

SUSTAINABLE Stakeholder

Operatlonal Framewortla

Functioning WELL

LAND TENURE

problems have been

RESOLVED

Women ownership rights In trees established

Baseline Information

for MONITORING

Exists

Local COMMUNITIES have

higher operatlonal & monitoring CAPACITY

TRAINED Operators have

IMPROVED HARVESTING

Practices

Financial Instruments

developed and trained

operators connected

Business development support provided

Local CFMCs appropriately TRAINED In

a professional way.

SUSTAINABLE

Forest Services INFORMATION on NTFPs

Stakeholder Operational

Frameworks made

Division has higher

SUPERVISORY Is duly DISSEMINATED

adaptable and CAPACITY

Replicable

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2.1.4 LOGICAL FRAMEWORK MATRIX

Strategy of Intervention Measurable Indication Means of Verification Key AssumptionsDEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE:

Significantly reduce forest degradation; enhance multiple forest productivity and resource functions (namely: productive, regenerative, protective, environmental, and social) as well as sustainable forest- related livelihoods in Rural Akwapim and Upper Krobo Private Off-Reserve Forests Districts in Ghana.

That by the end of 2019, the rate of deforestation remarkably reduced to less than 3 per cent per annum.

By 2019, wasteful chain-saw trees felling practices have stopped, and incomes of logging owners have doubled.

The target area successfully earmarked for certification.

(a) Ghana ForestryCommission & Ghana Ministry of Lands and Forestry Annual Reports on Reforestation and Forest Cover Improvements. (b) Ghana National Statistical Services Yearly (Statistical) Publications. (c) University of Ghana (Legon) Institute of Social, Statistical, and Economic Research (ISSER) “Yearly State of Ghana’s Economy” Publication.

That all identifiablemulti-level forestry and allied forest protection and rehabilitation stakeholders: namely, the district, provincial, and national institutional authorities (in their policy, guidance, monitoring, networking, and supportive complementary leverage levels) remain alive, and focused in terms of their basic mandate.

SPECITIC OBJECTIVE:

To initiate participatory reforestation, forest rehabilitation and management processes that significantly increase multiple forest use functions, rewards and benefits (especially for target local disadvantaged women), and administered under best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in the target area.

Primary projectstakeholders are applying best practices to rehabilitate, reforest, and sustainably manage 300 acres of deforested private forest resource Land tenure systems clarified, and information documents disseminated to primary stakeholders. Specific legal land title documents provided for 180 individual / group women reforestation beneficiaries.

(a) Socio-economicbaseline study completed and documented. (a) 250 acres reforested plots established. (b) 50 acres of nurtured natural regeneration plots established. (c ) Verifiable individual / group legal land title documents for target women. (d) Six CFMCs registered, trained and operational. (e) Project progress Reports, Women Training Reports, pictures, and lists of participants.

(b) THAT all identifiable project stakeholders including local actors like the Project Executing Agency, the participating project communities and CFMCs, as well as the direct project beneficiaries remain focused and committed with respect to their roles, and play them effectively and in timely fashion. (b) THAT the Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission remains supportive and focused on Rehabilitation and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Outreach and Extension Programs.

OUTPUTS: 1.2 By the end of Year

1.3.1 Six signedMemoranda of 1.4.1 THAT support

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Output 1: Stakeholders have reached consensus to significantly reduce deforestation and install best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM).

One, all 6 projectforest-fringe communities have (after reflective and committed conviction), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to reduce deforestation, streamline land tenure system, and actively engage in private off- reserve resource reforestation and rehabilitation.

Understanding (MoU)DOCUMENTS on firm pledge to reduce deforestation and physical manifestation of embarkation strategy regarding private off-reserve resource reforestation and rehabilitation. 1.3.2 Land tenure system streamlined. 1.3.3 Women reforestation acreages established 1.3.4 Natural regeneration acreages nurtured.

and commitment fromall participating communities and primary women beneficiaries continue unabated.

OUTPUT 2: There is a negotiated and integrated private off- reserve Forest Management PLAN endorsing land tenure streamlining plus best practices to reforest and promote natural regeneration of 300 acres aggregate of deforested land.

2.2.1 By the end ofYear One, there is a relevant stakeholder- endorsed target area integrated Forest Management Plan streamlining land tenure systems. 2.2.2 SKILLS Training Workshops for 180 actor-learners put in place. 2.2.3 Central Project Nursery to buy seeds & produce 450,000 seedlings. 2.2.4 By the end of Year 2, six CFMCs established

(2.3.1) 250-acres professionally reforested sites with registered legal ownership land title documents for180 women, and 50 acres of professionally nurtured natural regeneration plots. 2.3.2 PGS / GIS Maps 2.3.3 Field Reports 2.3.4 Training Reports with list of participants and pictures. 2.3.5. Six CFMC members trained and registered.

2.4.1 THAT undesirable climate events can be effectively predicted with the help of the meteorological department, and flexible planned action taken to minimize their effects. 2.4.2 THAT strong support and commitment from all participating communities continues unabated.

OUTPUT 3: Beneficiary stakeholders agreed on a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system.

3.2.1 By the end ofProject Year 3, (and with specific reference to the 180 disadvantaged project women) there must be a negotiated and democratically signed stakeholders document (effectively disseminated) regarding a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system.

3.3.1 Six signedcommunity-level Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) DOCUMENTS on a fair and efficient resource harvesting and rewards distribution system. 3.3.2 Registered legal land ownership title deeds for targeted 180 disadvantaged project women. 3.3.3 Registered functional CFMCs and 180 CFMC Membership Training

3.4.1 THAT allidentifiable project stakeholders like the Project Executing Agency (EA), the participating project women, target communities and CFMCs, as well as direct project beneficiaries play their roles effectively and in timely fashion.

3.4.2 That state forestry frameworks and outreach extension programs

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Reports. remain functional. OUTPUT 4: One hundred and eighty (180) disadvantaged project women beneficiaries are actively promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihoods.

4.2.1 By the end of Year 2 , all eight pre- agreed women livelihood lines are operational and yielding specified profits – excluding the Royal Noni Plants that bear fruit after 3 years. 4.2.2 Livelihoods Tools-Kit and Goods Production Operational PLAN 4.2.3 SKILLS TRAINING workshops for 180 women 4.2.4 Livelihoods MARKETING PLAN by Year 2 Ending

4.3.1 Executed womentraining program for 180 on financial management and capacity development. 4.3.2 Printed Livelihoods Climate Prediction Tools-Kit & Goods Production Plan 4.3.3 WOMEN Livelihoods Products MARKETING & SALES PLAN. 4.3.4 Women’s Group LIVELIHOODS Sales and Revenue Documents. 4.3.5 Newspaper Cuttings of Products Advertisement

4.4.1 THAT allidentifiable project stakeholders like the Project Executing Agency (EA), the participating project women, target communities and CFMCs, as well as direct project beneficiaries play their roles effectively and in timely fashion.

4.4.2 That state forestry frameworks and outreach extension programs remain functional.

2.2 OBJECTIVES

2.2.1 DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE and IMPACT INDICATORS:

DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE: Significantly reduce forest degradation; enhance multiple forest productivity and resource functions (namely: productive, regenerative, protective, environmental, and social) as well as sustainable forest-related livelihoods in Rural Akwapim and Upper Krobo Private Off-Reserve Forests in Ghana.

Impact Indicators:The long-term IMPACT indicators include:

(a) That by the end of 2019, the rate of deforestation remarkably reduced to less than 3 per cent per annum.

(b) By 2019, wasteful chain-saw trees felling practices have stopped, and incomes of logging owners have doubled.

(c) The target area successfully earmarked for certification.

2.2.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE and OUTCOME INDICATORS: SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE: To initiate participatory reforestation, forest rehabilitation and management processes that significantly increase multiple forest use functions, rewards and benefits (especially for target local disadvantaged women), and administered under best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). Outcome Indicators:

(a) Primary project stakeholders are applying best practices to rehabilitate, reforest, and sustainably manage 300 acres of deforested private forest resource.

(b) Land tenure systems clarified, and information documents disseminated to primary stakeholders.

(c ) Specific legal land title documents provided for 180 individual / group women reforestation beneficiaries.

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PART 3: DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT INTERVENTION

3.1 OUTPUTS and ACTIVITIES

3.1.1 OUTPUTS:


Output 2: There is a negotiated and integrated private off-reserve Forest Management PLAN endorsing land tenure streamlining plus best practices to reforest and promote natural regeneration of 300 acres aggregate of deforested land.


Output 4: One hundred and eighty (180) disadvantaged project women beneficiaries are actively promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihoods that will quadruple their annual incomes from current USD 350 per year. (See Section 1.4.1)

3.1.2 ACTIVITIES


Activity 1.1: Conduct an environmental and socio-economic baseline survey to establish

baseline data with the assistance of relevant local stakeholders and a qualified consultant.

Activity 1.2: Undertake a very thorough and inclusive STAKEHOLDERS’ MOBILIZATION that culminates in the signing of community-level Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) voluntarily committing the participating communities to stop deforestation and promote reforestation within SFM framework

Activity 1.3: Inculcate a lasting project philosophy and culture of transformative conflict resolution through discussions, empowerment, negotiations, and non-violent mediation utilizing the newly established CFMC Framework.

Activity 1.4: Promote the project idea and essence through half-yearly anti-deforestation Community OPEN DAYS.

Activity 1.5: Mutually determine in-built project Monitoring, Review, Evaluation, and SUSTAINABILITY frameworks and structures.

Output 2: There is a negotiated and integrated private off-reserve Forest Management PLAN endorsing land tenure streamlining plus best practices to reforest and promote natural regeneration of 300 acres aggregate of deforested land.

Activity 2.1: Conduct at least five (minimum) community stakeholder discussions and negotiation

meetings on local land tenure systems clarification and streamlining, alternative land use interests, legal land ownership title deeds registration for disadvantaged community women, and stakeholder rights in planted trees.

Activity 2.2: Undertake participatory REFORESTATION LAND SECURING, site selection, site surveying, demarcation, indenture preparation, and pillaring.

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Activity 2.3: Undertake baseline vegetation information and imagery establishment using GPS / GIS. Activity 2.4: Train 180 reforestation and resource rehabilitation hands on tree planting and

maintenance skills. Activity 2.5: Form and train community task-forces to collect virile project-relevant tree seeds from the local

forest. Purchase necessary additional seeds from FSD. Establish a Project Central Seeds Nursery to produce (minimum) 460,000 healthy seedlings required for the reforestation.

Activity 2.6: Mutually keep out all wild fires through vigilance and anti-fire border line planting and management where required.

Activity 2.7: Undertake the registration and training of 10 PROJECT OUT-GROWERS, previously

field-trained on Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration practices as well as professional guided enrichment planting (to professionally rehabilitate 50 acres (aggregate) of heavily degraded land.

Activity 2.8: Maintain the beneficiaries-owned tree-planted plots through beating-up, quarterly weeding, pest control, and plant care.

Activity 2.9: Sign Six Community Sustainable Forest Management AGREEMENTS with Community Leaders and CFMC on the continuous use of best forest management practices.

Output 3: Beneficiary stakeholders agreed on a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system. Activity 3.1: Conduct multiple project stakeholder meetings (minimum, 6) to discuss and negotiate for

sustainable, fair, and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system. Activity 3.2: Document the LEGAL CONSENSUS AGREEMENTS reached regarding legal

ownership rights for women, and ensure that the contents are well known to relevant stakeholders.

Activity 3.3: Establish and register (with the forestry commission), the six community-based Collaborative Forest Management Committees. There will be 30 members per committee (with different land use interests in forests) to champion the BEST PRACTICES of SFM idea in each community.

Activity 3.4: Train the 180 CFMC members on their roles, duties, and responsibilities regarding Sustainable Forest Management (SFM).

Activity 3.5: Mutually establish CLEAR project disputes and conflicts settlement PATHS, as well as project improvements, suggestions, and criticism channels.

Activity 3.6: Mutually MONITOR, evaluate, and review project sustainability structures, objectives, activities, and outputs with stakeholders locally as well as in line with ITTO Guidelines through the Project On-Line Monitoring System (POLMS).

Activity 3.7: REGARDING PROJECT DOCUMENTS TO THE ITTO and STAKEHOLDERS, PREPARE: (a) an Officially Researched Project Document on Community-Level Collaborative Forest Management on Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Best Practices; (b) Community- Based CLIMATE ADAPTATION TOOL-KIT PREPARATION and how to use and review it regularly at the community level with women inputs.

Output 4: One hundred and eighty (180) disadvantaged project women beneficiaries are actively promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihoods that will quadruple their annual incomes from current USD 350 per year. (See Section 1.4.1)

Activity 4.1: Conduct community-based Climate-Adapting Women Livelihoods TOOLS-KIT to guide

beneficiaries regarding income generating activities, inputs, and activity-timing.

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Activity 4.2: Mutually select the climate-resilient livelihoods after FREE and lengthy discussions, putting emphasis on foods with inputs grown successfully locally, under current erratic climate conditions. TRAIN and impart the necessary SKILLS to the 180 disadvantaged women through 20 short tailor-made WORKSHOPS.

Activity 4.3: Mutually conduct “Cost-Benefit Analysis” on the selected Project Women livelihoods Products, for example, popular demand-driven food items like (a) “Kenkey with Shito”, (b) “Awakye” or Rice & Beans special blends, (c) Nutritious bread & brown bread, along with biscuits with rich local ingredients. A special “Hair-Plenty” Women’s hair pomade (in high demand) should be added, using locally grown ingredients.

Activity 4.4 SUCCESSFULLY PROMOTE CLIMATE RESILIENT LOCAL WOMEN LIVELIHOODS WITH AN AGGREGATE NETWORTH OF USD 563,400 TO BENEFIT180 POOR PROJECT COMMUNITY WOMEN by the end of the project. (Kindly see Section 1.4.1).

Activity 4.5: Prepare and execute a production and sales net-worth plan as shown in Section 1.4.1 Activity 4.6: Promote the commercial PRODUCTION and MARKETING of the climate-resilient

livelihoods. Activity 4.7: Impart simple book-keeping and management skills to the disadvantaged women, and

network them to local SME Business Credit Institutions to gradually build financial independence.

Activity 4.8: NETWORK the project women with Large Commercial and Wealthy Fast Food Chains in the nearby city of Accra by taking them half-yearly on Learning, Working and Business Visits.

3.2 Implementation Approaches, Methods and Strategies

THIS NEW SECTION is guided by the re-designed PROBLEM TREE ANALYSIS CHART which states that “Rural Akwapim and Upper Krobo private off-reserve forests are heavily degraded and unsustainably managed”. The project will work collaboratively with all primary, secondary, and tertiary stakeholders – directly and indirectly – to ensure a sustainable change in the right direction. Sustainable resource rehabilitation can only be approached collectively and continuously through awareness raising, vision transformation, perception change, common problem analysis, and common specification of targets and priorities. This approach runs through forest zoning and mapping functions, management strategy planning, as well as integrated utilization of forest resources. The project will always keep at the forefront, its specific objective, which says: “to initiate participatory reforestation, forest rehabilitation and management processes that significantly increase multiple forest use functions, rewards and benefits (especially for target local disadvantaged women), and administered under best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). To ensure a sustainable, effective, and participatory implementation of the project, the project formulators have discussed and adopted this strategy which is multi-dimensional, and is focused at achieving optimal results. These implementation strategy dimensions further include:

(a) The urgent need for primary stakeholders to STOP DEFORESTATION AS FAR AS

PRACTICABLE, by constructively explaining and monitoring the main local drivers of forest degradation and deforestation.

(b) Effective MOBILIZATION of project stakeholders. Mobilization implies putting, linking, and

networking the stakeholders together, in a common communal fight against deforestation. Each stakeholder group however maintains its own identity and interests. T o modify any

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aspect of its interests, there is need for thorough discussions, consultations, and negotiation in freedom. Mobilization also implies that, each stakeholder group is made to understand that it is an important sub-set of the entire TEAM that is seeking to achieve a common goal: namely, TO STOP DEFORESTATION AND PROMOTE REFORESTATION, REHABILITATION, AND SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT (SFM).

(c) The need to concretely IDENTIFY all the relevant FOREST INSTITUTIONS that will serve as the frontline AGENTS OF CHANGE in the achievement of the project’s specific objective. To identify the relevant forestry institutions imply that, there must be an effective stakeholder analysis of them in terms of the project’s “Stakeholder Analysis Format”. This calls for effective institutional CAPACITY Development to sharpen skills for effective project results delivery. One important issue is to use terminologies that mean the same thing to all actors. A good example is to discuss applicable “LOCAL LAND TENURE SYSTEMS”, “BENEFICIARY WOMEN LAND OWNERSHIP TITLE DOCUMENTATION” and “LOCAL ACTORS AND PLANTERS’ RIGHTS IN TREES” effectively and reach a practical NEGOTIATED CONSENSUS. The negotiated consensus must be legally supportive with appropriate documentation. Based on such fundamental understanding, specific SIGNING OFCOMMUNITY-LEVEL RESOURCE IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENTS become MEANINGFUL.

(d) Another project strategy is setting out clearly the FAIR AND CONCRETE RESOURCE

BENEFITS AND REWARDS that each participating actor or group is getting in the end. Looked at in this way, the implementing process is BOUND TO BE PARTICIPATORY and INCENTIVE-PROMOTING. Collective efforts will be made to achieve a relevant and practical mosaic of ACTIVE PARTICIPATION that is as comprehensive and as effective as possible. The objective is to ensure bottom-up appreciation and active participation in decision-making by stakeholders, especially the local primary community actors, thus leading to greater local actor commitment, more responsible and cooperating behavior, and the sustainability of interactive operations and outputs.

With regard to project conflict handling questions, the Project Steering Committee as well as the Project Technical Committee remain the project’s advisory and guiding arms as well as the organs that mediate among project stakeholders in important cases of project disputes and conflicts.

3.2.1 Taking Account of the Findings and Results of Past Successfully Executed ITTO Projects:

namely, (PD 393/06 Rev. 1(F) and PD 534/08 Rev. 1(F), and relating them to Sub-Section 3.2 When we relate the above expounded implementation approaches and methods to the findings of this Executive Agency (PITRIS CONSULT) regarding PAST COMPLETED ITTO PROJECTS, namely: PD 393/06 Rev. 1(F) and PD 534/08 Rev. 1(F), we see several positive and encouraging LESSONS:

FIRST, the following sustainable collaborative stakeholder actions have NOW become INGRAINED FOREST IMPROVEMENT CULTURE IN THE OLD TARGETED AREAS:

(a) Group, or collective awareness raising; (b) Interactive perception change; (c) Interactive problem analysis; (d) Common identification of forest resource rehabilitation priorities;

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(e) Participatory resource surveying, zoning and mapping; (f) Fairer resource use, resource benefits sharing, and just rewards distribution systems; (g) Greater use of stakeholder networking mechanisms to enrich program ideas; (h) More prevalent use of participatory resource improvement monitoring and evaluation

methods.

The above newly found and mutually re-enforcing REFORESTATION CULTURE happily led to the successful reforestation of 300 acres in the aggregate, (employing mainly mixed tropical indigenous species and teak, with anti-soil-erosion legumes as under crops).

SECOND, judging from the fact that the culture of the old project areas (just as in the current target districts) were and are still historically very patriarchal, successfully negotiating for, and successfully persuading primary community stakeholders TO PUT DISADVANTAGED POOR RURAL WOMEN AT THE CENTER OF NATURAL FOREST RESOURCE IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS WAS, AND IS STILL GREAT VICTORY FORWARD – IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

With local beneficiary women well-partnered in the driving seat, the following forest protection, re-forestation and rehabilitation changes were successfully effected:

Primary community stakeholders became easily awake and got more conscious of the forest

devastation going on around them. The rampant resource deforestation DRASTICALLY SLOWED DOWN.

There was significantly greater community COMMITMENT across board in favor of off- reserve resource rehabilitation, with local women as vigorous AGENTS OF CHANGE!

There was greater and open willingness among MALE FAMILY HEADS to endow legal land OWNERSHIP TITLES to project women with respect to degraded land that the women had

reforested!

MOST HUSBANDS (60 – 75 per cent) got attracted and committed to helping in the promotion of related sustainable women livelihoods very vigorously!

The project-established Community Collaborative Forest Management Committees (CFMCs) received massive support from both men and women regarding their keen focus in

promoting family enrichment planting, as well as promoting best practices in Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) at the sub-district level.

3.3 WORK PLAN

ACTIVITY

Responsible Party Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

OUTPUT 1: Stakeholders have reached consensus to significantly reduce deforestation and install best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM).

A1.1 Undertake a participatory socio-economic baseline survey

Hired Consultant, Project Coordinator, & CFMC Leaders

A1.2 Undertake stakeholder awareness raising, mobilization and consultation to stop deforestation and promote reforestation

Project Coordinator & CFMC Leaders

A1.3 Train primary stakeholders on the meaning, responsibilities, and rights implied in the stakeholders’ CONSENSUS reached.


A1.4 Cross-check the Integrated Forest Management Alternatives Plan with Forest Headquarters (including Provincial / Regional Records)


A1.5 Document CONSENSUS reached (regarding the participatory stoppage of deforestation and the promotion of reforestation) and disseminate the information to stakeholders


OUTPUT 2: There is a negotiated and integrated private off-reserve Forest Management PLAN endorsing best practices to reforest and promote natural regeneration of 300 acres aggregate of deforested land. A2.1 Undertake LAND SECURING, Surveying, Demarcation, & Documentation

Coordinator & Surveyors

A2.2 IMPART PRACTICAL SKILLS on reforestation and natural regeneration to 180 target beneficiaries.

Project Coordinator & Management Team

A2.3 Establish a Central Seeds Nursery to produce 360,000 healthy seeds for the project reforestation exercise

Nursery Officer

A2.4 REFOREST 250 acres of highly degraded forest land in the selected project area

Project Coordinator/ Management Team

A2.5 Promote 50 acres of deforested land under Farmer- Managed Natural Regeneration (Guided by project management).

Forester / Community Animator

A2.6 Mutually MAINTAIN all the 250-acre Reforested and the 50-acre Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration Plots

Project Management Team

OUTPUT 3: Beneficiary stakeholders agreed on a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system. A3.1 Undertake 3 discussion workshops for 180 primary project stakeholders on a just and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system

Coordinator & Hired Resource Person (Lawyer)

A3.2 Provide and Register Legal Land Ownership Title Deeds for 180 Targeted Women Reforestation Beneficiaries

Project Coordinator A3.3 Undertake 6 discussion workshops for all SIX CFMCs on a just and efficient Harvesting and Resource Rewards Distribution System (180 people)


A3.4 Organize 6 whole-day community OPEN DAYS on the project and on the workings of the just and efficient Harvesting and Resource Rewards Distribution System


A3.5 Undertake one Group (Executives) CFMC Learning Excursion (year) to well-managed private forest resource centers with just resource distribution systems

Project Coordinator

OUTPUT 4: One hundred and eighty (180) disadvantaged project women beneficiaries are a ctively promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihoods that will quadruple their annual incomes from current USD 350 per year.A4.1 Mutually conduct community-based climate-resilient tools-kit for guidance and use by the 180 targeted disadvantaged women.

Women LivelihoodsTraining Manager

A4.2 Conduct Monthly Training Meetings for 180 women beneficiaries to acquire the necessary SKILL to PRODUCE the selected Climate- Resilient Livelihood Products

Project coordinator & Women Livelihoods Training Manager

A4.3 GUIDE and TRAIN 180 beneficiary disadvantaged women to successfully and sustainably market the livelihood products produced


A4.4 GUIDE and LINK 180 beneficiary disadvantaged women to local Small Credit Institutions to develop financial resilience / independence


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3.4 BUDGET

3.4.1 Master Budget Output / Activity

DESCRIPTION

Budget Component

QUANTITY UNIT Unit Cost TOTAL COST ITTO EA

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

Output 1 Stakeholders have reached consensus to significantly reduce deforestation and install best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM).A.1.1 Support stakeholders awareness raising, mobilization, and consultation

Conduct a socio-economic survey (for base data information) led by an experienced sociologist- consultant with assistance from primary community and institutional stakeholders

25 1 1

6,000 6,000 6,000

3 x 2-day meetings with stakeholder representatives (owners, women, farmers,) to discuss, negotiate, and establish agreement on modalities to reduce deforestation and establish SFM. (30 participants per day)

23 60 60 60 Person/day/meals

10 1,800 600 600 600

Two Community Animators Monthly Salaries 14 24 24 24 Person months 393.31 x 2 15,360 5,120 5,120 5,120 2,400 A1.2 Cross-check the Integrated Forest Management Alternatives Plan with forest headquarters records so as to reconcile any differences

Two meetings with forestry headquarters staff 23 10 Person / Day / Meals 20 200 200

A1.3 Document CONSENSUS reached and disseminate the information to stakeholders

3 x 2 day meetings with local stakeholder representatives to discuss forest biodiversity and useful indigenous knowledge on ecosystem health, vitality, and forest biodiversity concerns (30 participants per day)

608 60 60 60 Person / Day / Meals

10 1800 1,800

A1.4 Support Channels of Land Use Conflict Resolution and Mediation (Otherwise called Transformative Conflict Management Systems”)

3 x 2 day capacity building sessions on land use conflict resolutions with local traditional land owners, women representatives, and CFMC Leaders: (15 participants per day)

607 30 30 30 Person/day/meals

10 900

900

A1.5 Guide, promote, and monitor the Community CFMC members to lead in the implementation of the Forest Management Alternatives Plan

One stakeholders workshop (100 representatives) 23 100 Person /Day/Meals 10 1000 1000 Daily allowance for 2 foresters / community animators) 31.4 12 12 12 Person months 140 10,080 3,360 3,360 3,360

Output 2 There is a negotiated and integrated private off-reserve Forest Management PLAN endorsing land tenure streamlining plus best practices to reforest and promote natural regeneration of 300 acres aggregate of deforested land.

A2.1 Support LAND SECURING, Surveying, Demarcation, & Documentation 24 land surveying sessions (two survey technicians) 604 Person /Day /meals 25 1,200 1,200

3 x 2 day meetings on land ownership, tenure rights, and rights in planted trees; (30 participants per day) 607 60 60 60 Person /Day/meals

10 1,800

1,200 Make GPS / GIS imagery maps of all planted sites 44.7 2,700 900 900 900

A2.2 Support Multiple Reforestation SKILLS IMPARTING SKILLS to targeted primary stakeholders

Programmed plantation cultivation and skills acquisition workshops 23 240 60 60 Person /Day /Meals

20 7,200 2,400 2,400 2,400

A2.3 Support a Central Seeds Nursery to produce 360,000 healthy seeds for the project reforestation exercise

Purchase high provenance seeds from FSD for the project central nursery to produce 360,000 healthy seedlings for direct project use and for distribution to at least 50 trained project out-growers and farmers

51.1 150,000 seedlings

120,000 seedlings

90,000 seedlings

Seedlings

Varied 7,500

Nursery tools and canopy 44.8 Nursery tools/canopy 4,900 3,600 300 1,000

Nursery poly bags 51.4 Nursery poly-bags 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000

Garden weighing scales 44.12 Garden weighing scales 300 150 0 150

Garden lines 44.13 Garden lines 300 150 0 150

6 measuring tapes 44.14 Measuring tapes 120 120 0 0

First aid boxes with basic medicines 44.15 First aid boxes 1,600 800 400 400

50 Watering canes 44.11 30 10 10 Watering cans 4 200 120 40 40

Nursery Officer’s total salary 13 12 12 12 Person-months 180 7,680 2,560 2,560 2,560

A2.4 REFOREST 250 acres of highly degraded forest land in the selected project area. Land preparation and tough bush clearing (acres) 21 100 100 100 Sub-contract fee 40 12,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 Assorted (safe) pesticides and fungicides 51.2 Safe pesticides Varied 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 Pegging / seedlings transplanting / beating up 22 Pegging / Planting 12,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 Three computer voltage stabilizers 44.3 1 1 1 Voltage stabilizers 500 1,500 1000 0 500

One Laser Printer 44.2 1 Laser printer cost 2,100 2,100 2,100 0 0

Two Computers (one table top and one standard lap top) 44.1 2 2 Computer cost 1,750 3,500 3,500

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One Durable Project Vehicle (Dual cabin) 43.1 1 Project 4 x 4 vehicle 36,900 36,900 38,900 0 0

Vehicle insurance 52.2 Insured months 1,200 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,200

Vehicle maintenance 52.4 Vehicle maintenance 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 Wooden pegs (varied locality wood) 51.3 Wooden pegs 0.01 (approx.) 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000

Computer cartridges 54.1 Computer cartridges 350 1,050 350 350 350

Simple office furniture 54.2 Office furniture 400 400

Office stationery 54.3 Office stationery 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 FUEL cost for vehicles 52.3 12 12 12 Vehicle fuel cost 250 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,000

Office electricity and water 53.1 12 12 12 Electricity / water 360 120 120 120 1,440Administrative Accountant 15 12 12 12 Person months 180 7680 2560 2560 2560 1,200 Project Secretary 16 12 12 12 Person months 180 7680 2560 2560 2560 1,200 Vehicle spares 52.1 Vehicle spares Varied 4,000 1,000 1,500 1,500

MISCELLANEOUS: External Financial Auditing 601 1 1 1 Financial Auditing 1,500 4,500 1,500 1,500 1,500

MISCELLANEOUS: Steering Committee / PTC Meetings 602 2 2 2 STC / PTC Meetings 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,000

MISCELLANEOUS: Sundries 603 12 12 12 Sundries 1,800 600 600 600 Project Coordinator (Monthly emolument) 11 12 12 12 Person months 366.6 13,200 2,880 2,880 2,880 4,560

A2.5 Support mutual maintenance of all the 250-acre reforested and the 50-acre farmer-managed natural regeneration plotsContinual plantation maintenance weeding (acres) 24 100 100 100 Sub-Contract 30 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,000

Manual quick-weed plantation laborers on wages 18 Hour-rates 50 per acre 7,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 Project Driver 17 12 12 12 Person months 125 4,500 1,500 1,500 1,500

DUTY TRAVEL for 4 regular monthly monitoring 39 48 48 48 4 Person(s) months /DT 47,820 15,940 15,940 15,940

Domestic subsidiary EA Travel costs 35 12 12 12 EA Persons/months/DT 3,900 3,900 Output 3 Beneficiary stakeholders agreed on a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system.A3.1 Support discussion workshops for project stakeholders on a just and efficient Harvesting and Resource Rewards Distribution System (30 people)

3 x 2 day discussion workshops (30 people) 607 60 60 60 Person /Day /Meals 10 1,800 1,800 A3.2 Undertake discussion workshops for all SIX CFMCs on a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system (180 people)

3 x 2 day community workshops on A3.2 above 607 60 60 60 Person /Day /Meals 10 1,800 1,800 A3.3 Prepare and execute SIGNED Community-by-Community AGREEMENTS on a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system

6 community group durbar-ground meetings 608 2 2 2 Group snacks 400 2,400 2,400

3 x 2 day train CFMC executive members rigorously on just and fair resource distribution MONITORING ROLES 607 60 60 60 Person /Day /Meals

10 1,800

1,800 A3.4 Organize 6 whole-day community OPEN DAYS on the workings of a fair and efficient resource harvesting, benefits, and rewards distribution system

6 community half-yearly OPEN DAY PROMOTIONS on Just and fair forest resource rewards distribution 608 2 2 2 Group snacks

100 1,200

1,200 A3.5 Support Group (Executives) CFMC Learning Excursions to well-managed private forest resource centers with just resource distribution systems

3 Group Executive CFMC Learning Excursions 607 1 1 1 Excursion Cost 1,000 3,000 3,000 Output 4: One hundred and eighty (180) disadvantaged project women beneficiaries are actively promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihoods that will quadruple their annual incomes from current USD 350 per year.A4.1 Mutually conduct a community-based Climate-Adapting TOOLS-KIT for guidance and use by community women

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2 group Meetings Group snacks

1,000 2,000 2,000

A4.2 Conduct meetings for 180 women beneficiaries to select a final list of (demand-driven) Project Climate-Adapted Livelihood Products

2 women’s group meetings to select livelihood products, and discuss costing and possible profit levels 23

2 (180Participants) Group snacks

400 800 800

A4.3 TRAIN 180 disadvantaged community women to acquire the necessary SKILL to produce the selected Climate-Resilient Livelihood ProductsWomen’s Livelihoods Training Manager 12 12 12 12 Person month 180 7,680 2,560 2,560 2,560 1,200 Processing ingredients for livelihoods products 51.5 Ingredients cost 6,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 Preservatives for livelihoods products 51.6 Preservatives cost 2,500 1,500 500 500

Assorted packaging for livelihood products 51.7 Packaging cost 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,200

Livelihoods MARKETING and Promotion Points Provision

51.8 Marketing points cost 4,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 Livelihoods Mini-Carting Wagon 43.2 Products carting cost 7,800 7,800

SIX LPG Gas-Powered OVENS 44.4 6 Bakery Ovens Cost 2,000 12,000 12,000

18 LPG Gas STOVES 44.5 6 6 6 Gas stoves cost 300 1,800 1,800

18 Gas Cylinders 44.6 6 6 6 Gas cylinders cost 120 2,160 2,160

140 pairs of Wellington Boots 44.10 40 40 38 Wellington boots 25 3,000 1,200 1.200 1,100

THREE Hand Megaphones for group instruction 44.9 3 Hand megaphones 180 540 540

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3.4.2 Consolidated Budget by Component Category Description Total Year 1 Year 2 Year 310 Personnel

11 Project Coordinator 13,200 4,400 4,400 5,12012 Women’s Livelihoods Training Manager (WLTM) 7,680 2,560 2,560 4,72013 Nursery Officer 7,680 2,560 2,560 4,72014 Community Animators / Foresters (2 positions) 15,360 5,120 5,120 9,44015 Administrative Accountant 7,680 2,560 2,560 4,72016 Project Secretary 7,680 2,560 2,560 4,72017 Project Driver 4,500 1,500 1,500 1,50018 Manual quick-weed plantation laborers on wages (During the raining seasons) 7,500 2,500 2,500 2,50019 Sub-Total 71,280 23,760 23,760 23,760

20 Sub-Contract 21 Initial tough (degraded) forest bush clearing 12,000 4,000 4,000 4,00022 Pegging and transplanting of timber species seedlings 12,000 4,000 4,000 4,00023 Programmed Plantation Cultivation & Skills Acquisition Workshops (6 modules) 10,500 3,500 3,500 3,50024 Plantation Maintenance Weeding 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,00025 Socio-economic baseline survey by an experienced consultant-

sociologist 6,000 6,000 0 0

Sub-Total 49,500 20,500 14,500 14,500 30 Duty Travel: Daily Subsistence Allowance

31 Project Coordinator 18,000 6,000 6,000 6,00032 Women’s Livelihoods Training Manager (WLTM) 10,800 3,600 3,600 3,60033 Nursery Officer 5,040 1,680 1,680 1,680 34 Community Animators / Foresters (2 positions) 10,080 3,360 3,360 3,36039 Sub-Total 43,920 14,640 14,640 14,640

40 Capital Items 43 43.1 Durable (4x4) Project Vehicle with basic authentic accessories 36,900 36,900 0 0

43.2 Women Livelihoods Mini-Carting-Wagon 7,800 7,800 0 044 44.1 One Table Top Computer and a Lap Top 3,500 3,500 0 0

44.2 One Laser Printer 2,100 2,100 0 044.3 Three computer-voltage stabilizers 1,500 1,000 0 50044.4 6 LPG Gas-Powered Bakery Ovens 12,000 12,000 0 044.5 18 LPG Gas-Powered Cooking Stoves 1,800 900 900 044.6 18 Gas Cylinders 2,160 1,160 1,000 044.7 GPS Mapping Tools / Gadgets 2,700 900 900 90044.8 Nursery Tools / Durable Wind-Resistant Canopy 4,900 3,600 300 1,00044.9 Hand Megaphones 540 540 0 0

44.10 Wellington Boots for Women Executives & CFMC Leaders 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000

44.11 Watering cans 200 200 0 044.12 Garden weighing scales 300 150 0 15044.13 Garden lines 300 150 0 15044.14 Measuring tapes 120 120 0 044.15 First Aid Boxes with Relevant Medicines 1,600 800 400 40044.16 Assorted designed bakery baking tins and pans (heat adjusting) 1,800 600 600 600 44.17 Assorted designed biscuit cutters and decorators 600 200 200 200

49 Sub-Total 83,820 73,620 5,300 4,90050 Consumables

51 Raw Materials 51.1 High provenance seeds of selected indigenous species 7,500 2,500 2,500 2,50051.2 Permitted Pesticides and Fungicides 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,00051.3 Wooden pegs 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,00051.4 Nursery poly bags 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 51.5 Processing ingredients for selected women livelihoods 6,000 2,000 2,000 2,00051.6 Preservatives for relevant edible livelihoods products 2,500 1,500 500 50051.7 Packaging materials for Livelihoods Products 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,20051.8 MARKETING Points for Livelihoods Products 4,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 51.9 Locally mixed fast-tree-growth fertilizers 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,20051.10 Printing of 240 Professional CFMC* Reference Manuals / Handbooks 1,200 1,200 0 0

52 VEHICLE SPARES / Maintenance / Insurance / Fuel52.1 Vehicle spares 4,000 1,000 1,500 1,500

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52.2 Vehicle insurance 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,20052.3 Fuel for project transport 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,00052.4 Maintenance cost of project vehicles 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,000

53 UTILITIES 53.1 Electricity and Water 360 120 120 12054 OFFICE SUPPLIES

54.1 Cartridges for computer printer 1,050 350 350 350 54.2 Simple field office furniture 400 400 0 054.3 Office stationery 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,00059 Sub-Total 68,310 24,170 22,070 22,07060 MISCELLANEOUS

601 External Financial Auditing 4,500 1,500 1,500 1,500602 Steering Committee and PTC Meetings 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,000603 Sundries 1,800 600 600 600604 Support professional surveying of individual women reforested plots 2,400 800 800 800 605 Cost of manual laborers providing and periodically weeding project

fire belts in fire prone areas 4,800 1,600 1,600 1,600 606 Community capacity building for fire prevention, fire fighting, and

promotion of anti-wild-bush fire regimes 4,800 1,600 1,600 1,600 607 Programmed Capacity Development Training Modules for 180 CFMC* Members 12,000 4,000 4,000 4,000608 Half-yearly Project Community Open Day Publicity 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,20069 Sub-Total 42,900 14,300 14,300 14,300

70 National Management Cost 53,96080 Project Monitoring and Administration

81 ITTO Monitoring & Evaluation cost for 3 years @ USD 10,000 per year 30,00082 ITTO Mid-Term Evaluation 083 ITTO Final Evaluation 15,00084 ITTO Ex-post evaluation 0

Sub-Total (11 – 82) 345,33085 ITTO Program Support Costs: 12 per cent of (10 – 84) 43,240

100 Grand Total (ITTO + EA): USD 401,770 + USD 106,820 USD 510,390

Budget Notes: (*) Active forest-fringe community-level “Collaborative Forest Management Committees – CFMCs” (as Forest Management Units - FMUs) are the grassroots cradle for the effective development of ENABLING CONDITIONS for SFM where “enabling conditions” mean legal, economic, monitoring, regulating, and institutional framework for SFM as emphasized in the 20 15 Revised ITTO Criteria and Indicators for SFM.

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3.4.3 ITTO Budget by Component

Category

Description Total Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 10 Personnel

11 Project Coordinator 10,800 3,600 3,600 3,60012 Women’s Livelihoods Training Manager (WLTM) 6,480 2,160 2,160 2,16013 Nursery Officer 6,480 2,160 2,160 2,16014 Community Animators / Foresters (2 positions) 12,960 4,320 4,320 4,32015 Administrative Accountant 6,480 2,160 2,160 2,16016 Project Secretary 6,480 2,160 2,160 2,16017 Project Driver 4,500 1,500 1,500 1,50018 Manual quick-weed plantation laborers on wages (During the raining seasons) 7,500 2,500 2,500 2,50019 Sub-Total 61,680 20,560 20,560 20,560

20 Sub-Contract 21 Initial tough (degraded) forest bush clearing 12,000 4,000 4,000 4,00022 Pegging and transplanting of timber species seedlings 12,000 4,000 4,000 4,00023 Programmed Plantation Cultivation & Skills Acquisition Workshops (6 modules) 10,500 3,500 3,500 3,50024 Plantation Maintenance Weeding 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,00025 Socio-economic baseline survey by an experienced consultant-

sociologist 6,000 6,000 0 0

Sub-Total 49,500 20,500 14,500 14,50030 Duty Travel: Daily Subsistence Allowance

31 Project Coordinator 18,000 6,000 6,000 6,00032 Women’s Livelihoods Training Manager (WLTM) 10,800 3,600 3,600 3,60033 Nursery Officer 5,040 1,680 1,680 1,68034 Community Animators / Foresters (2 positions) 10,080 3,360 3,360 3,36039 Sub-Total 43,920 14,640 14,640 14,640

40 Capital Items 43 43.1 Durable (4x4) Project Vehicle with basic authentic accessories 36,900 36,900 0 0

43.2 Women Livelihoods Mini-Carting-Wagon 7,800 7,800 0 044 44.1 One Table Top Computer and a Lap Top 3,500 3,500 0 0

44.2 One Laser Printer 2,100 2,100 0 044.3 Three computer-voltage stabilizers 1,500 1,000 0 50044.4 6 LPG Gas-Powered Bakery Ovens 12,000 12,000 0 044.5 18 LPG Gas-Powered Cooking Stoves 1,800 900 900 044.6 18 Gas Cylinders 2,160 1,160 1,000 044.7 GPS Mapping Tools / Gadgets 2,700 900 900 90044.8 Nursery Tools / Durable Wind-Resistant Canopy 4,900 3,600 300 1,00044.9 Hand Megaphones 540 540 0 0

44.10 Wellington Boots for Women Executives & CFMC Leaders 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000

44.11 Watering cans 200 200 0 044.12 Garden weighing scales 300 150 0 15044.13 Garden lines 300 150 0 15044.14 Measuring tapes 120 120 0 044.15 First Aid Boxes with Relevant Medicines 1,600 800 400 400

49 Sub-Total 81,420 72,820 4,500 4,10050 Consumables 51 Raw materials

51.1 High provenance seeds of selected indigenous species 7,500 2,500 2,500 2,50051.2 Permitted Pesticides and Fungicides 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,00051.3 Wooden pegs 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,00051.4 Nursery poly bags 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,00051.5 Processing ingredients for selected women livelihoods 6,000 2,000 2,000 2,00051.6 Preservatives for relevant edible livelihoods products 2,500 1,500 500 50051.7 Packaging materials for Livelihoods Products 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,20051.8 MARKETING Points for Livelihoods Products 4,500 1,500 1,500 1,500

52 VEHICLE SPARES / Maintenance / Insurance / Fuel52.1 Vehicle spares 4,000 1,000 1,500 1,50052.2 Vehicle insurance 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,20052.3 Fuel for project transport 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,00052.4 Maintenance cost of project vehicles 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,000

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53 UTILITIES 53.1 Electricity and water 360 120 120 12054 OFFICE SUPPLIES

54.1 Cartridges for computer printer 1,050 350 350 35054.2 Simple field office furniture 400 400 0 054.3 Office stationery 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000

60 MISCELLANEOUS 61 External Financial Auditing 4,500 1,500 1,500 1,50062 Steering Committee and PTC Meetings 9,000 3,000 3,000 3,00063 Sundries 1,800 600 600 600

ITTO Sub- Total

315,330

155,390 80,170 79,770 70 National Management Cost (see Executing Agency Costs)

80 Project Monitoring and Administration 81 ITTO Monitoring & Evaluation cost for 3 years @ USD 10,000 per year 30,00082 ITTO Mid-Term Evaluation 083 ITTO Final Evaluation 15,00084 ITTO Ex-post evaluation 0

Sub-Total (11 – 82) 345,33085 ITTO Program Support Costs: 12 per cent of (10 – 84) 43,240

100 Total (ITTO) 403,570

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3.4.4 Executing Agency Budget by Component Category Total Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

10 Personnel 1

11 Project Coordinator 4560 15200000

1520 152012 Women’s Livelihoods Training Manager (WLTM) 1,200 400 400 40013 Nursery Officer 1,200 400 400 40014 Community Animators / Foresters (2 positions) 2,400 800 800 80015 Administrative Accountant 1,200 400 400 40016 Project Secretary 1,200 400 400 400

19 Sub-Total 11,760 3920 3920 392030 DUTY TRAVEL:

35 Subsidiary EA field staff (direct project-related) domestic travelt

3,900 1,300 1,300 1,30039 Sub-Total 3,900 1,300 1,300 1,300

40 CAPITAL ITEMS: 44.16 Assorted designed bakery baking tins and pans (heat adjusting) 1,800 600 600 60044.17 Assorted designed biscuit cutters and decorators 600 200 200 200

49 Sub-Total 2,400 800 800 80050 CONSUMABLES

51.9 Locally mixed fast-tree-growth fertilizers 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,20051.10 Printing of 240 Professional CFMC* Reference Manuals / Handbooks 1,200 1,200 0 0

59 Sub-Total 4,800 2,400 1,200 1,20060 MISCELLANEOUS:

603 Sundries 2,400 800 800 800604 Support professional surveying of individual women reforested plots 2,400 800 800 800

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Cost of manual laborers providing and periodically weeding project fire belts in fire prone areas 4,800 1,600 1,600 1,600

606 Community capacity building for fire prevention, fire fighting,and promotion of anti-wild-bush fire regimes 4,800 1,600 1,600 1,600

607 Programmed Capacity Development Training Modules for 180 CFMC Members* 12,000 4,000 4,000 4,000608 Half-yearly Project Community Open Day Publicity 3,600 1,200 1,200 1,20069 Sub-Total 30000 10,000 10,000 10,000

SUB-TOTAL (All categories) 52860 18420 17220 1722070 National Management Cost 53960 17987 17987 17986GRAND TOTAL

106820 36407 35207 35206

Budget Notes: (*) Active forest-fringe community-level “Collaborative Forest Management Committees – CFMCs” (as Forest Management Units - FMUs) are the grassroots cradle for the effective development of ENABLING CONDITIONS for SFM where “enabling conditions” mean legal, economic, monitoring, regulating, and institutional framework for SFM as emphasized in the 2015 Revised ITTO Crit eria and Indicators for SFM.

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3.5 ASSUMPTIONS, RISKS, AND SUSTAINABILITY

3.5.1 ASSUMPTIONS and RISKS:

Key Assumptions Possible Risks Risk Mitigating FactorAT THE DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE LEVEL:

That all identifiable multi-level forestry and allied forest protection and rehabilitation stakeholders: namely, the district, provincial, and national institutional authorities (in their policy, guidance, monitoring, networking, and supportive complementary leverage levels) remain alive, and focused in terms of their basic mandate.

A probable risk is that, one or two upper-level stakeholders could unsatisfactorily relax in the discharge of their basic mandate or responsibilities.

It is best to work through sectorALLIANCES of like-minded district forest improvement institutions using professional ADVOCACY, HIGH-PROFILE LOBBYING, and SHREWD, DIPLOMATIC ACTIVISM to effect positive change within Upper- Level Complementary Institutions whose performances are seen to be below average. Flexible but firm diplomacy is the key that opens doors. Furthermore, it is useful for alliance networks to visit complementary institutions that are not pulling their weight in terms of satisfactory mandate execution in order to learn about their problems. Through sector ALLIANCES and / or NETWORKS, discuss the matter clean- heartedly with them, and obtain a negotiated solution.

AT THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE LEVEL: (a) THAT all identifiable project stakeholders including local actors like the Project Executing Agency, the participating project communities and CFMCs, as well as the direct project women beneficiaries remain focused and committed with respect to their roles, and play them effectively and in timely fashion.

(b) THAT the Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission remains supportive and focused on Rehabilitation and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Outreach and Extension Programs.

A probable risk is that, one or two participating communities, or project beneficiary group could be found wanting in the discharge of their responsibilities.

A probable risk is that, one or two participating Units within the District FSD Office could be found wanting in the discharge of their SFM Outreach Responsibilities.

(a) It will be useful for the Project Management Team to visit the said community (or group) as respected partners and friends to learn about the problem first hand. The visiting team members should be good listeners! Discuss the matter objectively with them, and a negotiated solution could be found

(b) Forest sector alliances and NGO private sector lobbies are effective when it comes to DEFAULTING Forestry Commission and Forest Services Division establishments. Project management will utilize such channels as and when necessary.

(c ) THAT there are no very adverse climate events during the project implementation period.

A probable risk is that, there could be very undesirable climate change event factors during the project implementing period.

(c ) Project management must make friends with the District and Regional Meteorological Services and seek help to analyze their climate and weather predictions. Do the same with Global Watch Services in the province or country.

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3.5.2 PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY:

51st Expert Panel Suggestion and Modification: Section 3.5.2: Further Explanations: Practical Project Sustainability Task Force Arrangements (Based on the Logical Framework Matrix Entries) Before the end of the first project year, a Project Sustainability Task Force Arrangement will be established “to execute project continuation tasks” as follows: Vital Project Sustainability Task Who will execute the task? Specific responsible party (1) Initial land preparation assignments

(a) Local (project established) husbands association (b) Beneficiary women (c ) Local male youth groups

(a) Sustainability Task Force Coordinator (STFC) (b) Women Group Executives

(2) Seeds collection, seedlings production, and distribution

(a) - As Above, plus: (b) District FSD (c ) Range supervisors


(3) Plantation maintenance

(a) Local (project established) husbands association (b) Beneficiary women (c ) Local male youth groups


(4) Registration of reforested plots with the Ghana Forestry Commission / FSD

(a) CFMCs (b) District FSD (c) Women’s Group Executives


(5) Provision of micro-loans and micro financial subsidies to disadvantaged rural project women: For example under the Ghana Forest Plantations Development Fund (Amendment) / (Act 2002, Act 623 sub-sections (iii), (iv), and (v):

(a) STFC (b) CFMCs (c) Women’s Group Executives (d) Skeleton staff of EA (e) District FSD

(a) Sustainability Task Force Coordinator (STFC) (b) Women Group Executives (c ) District FSD

(6) Marketing of project timber and women livelihood products

(a) Women Group Executives (b) Women Beneficiaries (c ) CFMCs and District FSD


PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY refers to IN-BUILT present, medium-term, and long-term project strategies

that deal with project survival, growth, replication, and intended objective achievements - including right impact and profitability of the project especially when formal ITTO funding trends have ended. Our Project Sustainability Structures and Frameworks tailor-made to CHAMPION Economic, Technical, Financial, Management and Political aspects of SUSTAINABILITY include the following Self-Reliant ACTION POINTS: (a) Establishment and legal registration of “SIX Active Community-Based Assisting Husbands Associations”

made up of very hard-working household husbands who excelled in making sure their wives and the project

succeed and grow in lips and bounds ever-after. Such husbands do exist in the project area! (Managerial, Economic, and Financial Sustainability).

(b) Eighteen executive women from the livelihoods promotion sector will be trained and MERGED with the community-based 30-member Collaborative Forest Management Committees to play the role of

CATALYST-Agents-of-CHANGE). (Managerial Sustainability). (c) The opening of a Project Sustainability Bank Account at a local savings bank to help on deserving project

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sustainability issues, with savings and drawing rights determined by the catalyst women executives mentioned in section “b” above. (Financial Sustainability).

(d) The opening of Disadvantaged Women’s Livelihood Products SELLING POINTS to facilitate Selling and Marketing of Project-made Livelihoods Products. (Additional Financial and Economic Sustainability).

(e) Legally registering and building the institutional capacity of the six community-based 30-Member Collaborative Forest Management Committees to serve as the official legal transformative conflict mediators and project representatives at the Ghana Forestry Commission on behalf of the beneficiary forest-fringe communities. The EA will link Project CFMCs to the Ghana Forestry Commission for further

SFM inputs, assistance, and guidance as needs arise. (Managerial, Financial and Economic). (f) The Project Executing Agency will keep an experienced nursery officer (as well as train energetic local self-

motivated young man and woman) at the Central Project Nursery to produce a minimum of 250,000 selected project indigenous seedlings (and teak) for supply every year to beneficiaries. (Technical Sustainability).

(g) The Project Executing Agency will keep a strategic and responsive skeleton staff at project end to handle Forestry Skills Training Functions for three years. After that period, a firm structural and financial arrangement will be negotiated whereby the District Environmental Committee of the District Assembly would take over project matters and work with the CFMCs. (Managerial Sustainability).

(h) Organize “Meet the IMPORTANT Non-Project Group Leaders (Political, Religious, Traditional and Youth Peer-Group Leaders”) ONCE A YEAR in an OPEN-EXHIBITION-FAIR at the District Assembly Conference Room to publicize the project, receive criticisms and suggestions, and forge positive alliances and

networks. (Political Sustainability).

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Part 4: IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

“You are NOT born as a woman in today’s terms. You have been MADE into a woman by today’s societal and patriarchal interests. WHO will help today’s disadvantaged rural woman in developing countries?”

Said by a Woman. 4.1 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART: (Kindly see Section 4.1.4 for Stakeholder involvement mechanisms)

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4.1.1 Executing Agency and Partners

PITRIS CONSULT, the Project Executing Agency is 38 years old! It was first registered at the REGISTRAR GENERALS’s DEPARTMENT in Accra, Ghana in 1977. It has maintained the accolade “Small is effective, beautiful and manageable ever since.” Pitris Consult was registered as a small private research and consulting firm dedicated to participatory women group development, training, rural forestry institutional capacity building, as well as health-related NTFP promotion. The rich reforestation experience of its Project MANAGEMENT TEAM dates back at least 15 years.

The Vision of Pitris Consult is to grow steadily into an effective WEST AFRICAN REGIONAL small private research and consulting firm with a reputation for participatory women group development, stakeholder training, rural forestry institutional capacity building, as well as health-related NTFP promotion.

The Mission of Pitris Consult is to empower disadvantaged forest-fringe groups to protect, rehabilitate, and sustainably manage and use their local natural forest resources. This pre-supposes the promotion of community- based Collaborative Forest Management Committees, as well as the development of multipurpose NTFPs.

The Infrastructure of Pitris Consult Pitris Consult has an office in the Greater Accra Region as well as one office in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It has six computers, three strong saloon cars, and a Toyota Pick-Up vehicle. It has a key staff of five professionals (including a Forest Economist, four recently retired Foresters, a Sociologist, two Agro-Processing & Training Managers, two Accountants, an ICT Specialist (conversant with ITTO POLMS); two qualified and experienced Seed Nursery Specialists, a Natural Science Graduate, three experienced Community Animators, plus five part-time Graduate Consulting Assistants.

PITRIS CONSULT has already completed two Women’s ITTO Reforestation Projects successfully, namely: PD 393/06 Rev. 1(F)), and ITTO PD 534/08 Rev. 1 (F). Lesions learnt from those previous ITTO Projects have been incorporated in this project. For further details on the Executing agency PITRIS CONSULT, kindly see ANNEX 1).

4.1.1.2 IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER: “Forests of Hope NGO”

The partner NGO to the main Executing Agency (EA) is called “FORESTS OF HOPE NGO” . It is an ALL-WOMEN- OWNED Non-Governmental Organization. It has been in existence and active organization for seven years. About 90 per cent of “FORESTS OF HOPE NGO” Management Team are very energetic and qualified GHANAIAN WOMEN. The partner NGO was also registered at the REGISTRAR GENERALS’s DEPARTMENT in Accra, Ghana. “FORESTS OF HOPE NGO” was registered as an NGO dedicated to the promotion of Climate-Adapting Livelihoods Promotion in rural disadvantaged communities. The rich rural women’s livelihoods promotion experience of its Project MANAGEMENT TEAM dates back 7 years in the Ashanti and Eastern Regions of Ghana.

The Vision of “Forests of Hope NGO” is to grow gradually into an effective GHANAIAN WOMEN NGO dedicated to the promotion of Climate-Adapting Livelihoods Promotion in rural disadvantaged communities.

The Mission of Forests of Hope NGO is to empower disadvantaged forest-fringe women to effectively learn HOW to generate satisfactory incomes from their disadvantaged rural settings.

The Infrastructure of Forests of Hope (Partner NGO) Forests of Hope NGO has an office in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It has two computers, one strong saloon car, and an old KIA distribution wagon. It has a key staff of THREE Professionals Dieticians, two Agro-Processing & Training Managers, one Forester, plus two part-time Lady-Graduate Trainees.

4.1.2 THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM OF THE SUBSTANTIVE EXECUTING AGENCY:

The Project MANAGEMENT TEAM for this project is led by Dr. Paul Pawar, a Ph.D holder from the University of Stockholm in Sweden. He is a specialist in Institutional Capacity Development. The Project Accountant has two Master’s Degrees from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy. All the other members of the Management Team have at least a good first degree or a higher professional qualification or diploma.

Project Position Held

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES

Experience in years

doing similar assignments

Project Coordinator

He is first among equals. He is the overall project officer who

sees to the supervision and successful realization of the entire project objective.

He is directly responsible to the Project Steering Committee and a member of the Project steering Committee.

He is directly responsible to the ITTO Project Manager at the Reforestation and Forest Management Division.

He is responsible for the mutual preparation of all ITTO Statutory Project Reports, Monthly Highlights, Progress Reports, Audit Reports and Project Completion Report.

Six years of serving as Project Coordinator under two successful ITTO Women’s Projects: namely, PD 396/06 Rev. 1(F) and PD534/08 Rev. 1(F)

Foresters / Community Animators

They are the technical as well as cultural arm of the project. They have to blend technical forestry skill along with useful local traditional forestry knowledge to achieve the objectives if the project.

They are the TECHNICAL ARM for achieving the Project OUTPUTS and OUTCOMES.

Five years.

Nursery Officer

Responsible for collecting and

purchasing virile and relevant project seeds.

Establishing and managing the project’s central seed nursery for the production of at least 360,000 seedlings for planting.

Six years practical experience as a successful Project Nursery Officer.

Project Accountant

Keeping all the necessary books of accounts and making regular accounts reconciliation with the bank.

Preparing Project Accounts for the monthly High-Lights and ITTO POLMS, Progress Reports, Yearly Accounts, and Auditing Accounts.

Making accurate payments as and when necessary, as instructed by the Project Coordinator.

Nine years practical and successful experience in Project Accounting

Women Livelihoods Training Manager

Managing the climate-adapted livelihoods promotion division of the Project.

Leading the six communities (along with the Project Coordinator) to prepare the Climate-Adapting TOOLS-KIT for project and community guidance and use.

Training 180 disadvantages project

Eight years practical and successful experience in Women Livelihoods Promotion.

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women to acquire necessary skills to be able to produce profitable high- quality climate-adapted products for women use and commercial sales.

Guide the disadvantaged women in Marketing and Sales.

Deputy Project Coordinator

Assist the Project Coordinator in the discharge of his duties.

Play the role of Project Coordinator in the absence of the substantive Project Coordinator, with the approval of the ITTO.

4.1.3 Project Steering Committee

The Project Steering Committee plays the role of ADVISORY and POLICY GUIDING BODY of the Project. The Committee acts as Chief Arbiter and Mediator in all cases of Project Conflicts. The membership of the Project Steering Committee is made up as follows: (a) ITTO, one or two representatives; (b) Ghana Forestry Commission, one or two representatives, including the substantive ITTO Focal Person; (c) District Forest Services Division where the project is locally based, one representative; (d) Pitris Consult, the Executing Agency, one representative (being the substantive Project Coordinator); and (e) One representative of the Beneficiary Project Communities.

THE MEETINGS of the Project Steering Committee shall take place EITHER at the Koforidua Eastern Region Headquarters of the FSD, OR the Accra Headquarters of the Ghana Forestry Commission whichever is more convenient to the Visiting ITTO Monitoring Team. Project PTC Meetings shall be held in the District FSD Headquarters in the district where the project is located.

4.1.4 Stakeholder Involvement Mechanism

STAKEHOLDER DIMENSIONS

INITIAL Project Mobilization, Discussions, Consultations, Negotiations, and SignedAGREEMENTS FRAMEWORKS

DETAILED IMPLEMENTATION

Progress Reports and IN-BUILT Sustainability

Project Community OPEN DAYS (for publicity, as well as receiving Suggestions & Criticisms

Project Monitoring, Review, & Evaluations

Traditional Land Owners

X X X

X X

Disadvantaged Beneficiary Women & Farmers

X X X

X X

Community-Based Collaborative Forest Management Committees (CFMCs)

X

X

X

X

X

Project Executing Agency

X X X

X X

District Forest Services Division Office

X X X

X X

Project Steering Committee and PTC

X X X

X X

ITTO Focal Point

X X

X X

ITTO / RFM Division

X X

X X

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4.2 Reporting, Review, Monitoring, and Evaluation

All project progress reporting activities (monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, yearly) will be prepared in approved ITTO Formats as explained in the ITTO Manual on Project Monitoring, Review, Reporting, and Evaluation, submitted by the project management in good time before Council Sessions. Project reporting, monitoring, and evaluation shall be in-built and participatory as far as possible. Emphasis will be on both summative and formative evaluations. Summative evaluations help project partners to be aware of what has happened and the reasons WHY they happened. Formative evaluations assist stakeholders in making qualitative choices regarding the way forward. The role of project stakeholders in project monitoring, review, and evaluation is illustrated in the above 4.1.4 Matrix

THE MEETING PLACE of the Project Steering Committee shall be EITHER at Koforidua, which is the Eastern Region Headquarters of the FSD, OR the Accra Headquarters of the Ghana Forestry Commission whichever is more convenient to the Visiting ITTO Monitoring Team. Project PTC Meetings shall be held in the District FSD Headquarters in the district where the project is located.

4.2.1 Suggested Monitoring, Reporting, and Evaluation Schedules

Description Dates

1st Disbursement Request

As soon as the Project Contract is signed by the ITTO and other project stakeholders, and the Inception Report is written.

1st Monitoring Mission

90 days after the transfer of the first installment of ITTO Project Funds to the project.

1st Progress Report August 2016

2nd Progress Report February 2017

1st Financial Audit Report 12 Months after starting the project

3rd & 4th Progress Reports August 2017 and February 2018

2nd ITTO Monitoring Mission

2017, (12 months after the first monitoring mission)

2nd Financial Audit Report 24 Months after starting the project

3rd ITTO Monitoring Mission

2018 (12 months after the second monitoring mission)

5th & 6th Progress Reports August 2018 and February 2019 Final Financial Audit Report & Project Completion Report First quarter 2019

4.3 Dissemination and Mainstreaming of Project Learning

4.3.1 Dissemination of Project RESULTS

Project results will be disseminated through (multiple) Project Workshops, Half-yearly Community-Based Project OPEN DAYS, popular Ghanaian Newspapers (especially the Daily Graphic, and the Ghanaian Times), Popular Local TV Stations, Local Radio, and two well-informed popular Magazine Publications. The audiences shall be BOTH HIGH-RANKING and Popular GRASSROOTS. The matrix below provides further details:

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Type of Information Target Audience Media & Method (1) General information about the project area environment.

Relevant PUBLIC POLICY an DECISION MAKERS.

The general public Chiefs and elders Local opinion leaders Farmers, land owners Women, Project

Collaborative Forest Management Committees

Community general open meetings.

Traditional gong-gong beaters who provide dawn messages verbally and loudly from vantage points, and FM Radio

(2) Pre-Project information to the general community.

As above, plus HIGH-RANKING District-level Forestry and Agriculture Officials.

As Above, plus popular local newspaper written insets and official invitation letters to public officials.

(3) Specific Project-Related Production, Management, Technical, and Collaborative Forest Management Information.

Women’s group members Other 1st and 2nd level project

stakeholders as might be found relevant.

Use of project animation personnel on house-to-house missions; Planned meetings,

On-the-job information dissemination & Bill Boards.

(4) Project Animation, Promotion, Early Warning, Good News, and Replicable Information.

As Above, plus Other non-project local women, local farmers, migrant workers, local Churches, and Schools.

- Ditto -

4.3.2 Mainstreaming of Project Learning: TOP POLCY-MAKING and DECISION-MAKING OFFICIALS are very CRUCIAL:

At the OFFICIAL PROJECT LAUNCHING FUNCTION, very important Ghanaian Policy Makers will be invited to CHAIR the function, as well as make short but important KEY NOTE ADDRESSES very relevant and topical to the expected outputs and outcomes of the Project. Success stories can be told to add greater vim to the launching affair. As earlier indicated in the Logical Framework Matrix, the PROJECT COORDINATOR shall be responsible for Project RESULTS DISSEMINATION DUTIES like Newspaper insertions, TV and Radio Publicity Appearances, and Publications of learned articles in learned Magazines. FREQUENT and OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS from high-ranking Ghanaian policy-makers and decision-makers, invitations to forestry policy-making platforms, AS WELL AS favorable references and counter-references from popular local media regarding Project Results PUBLICITY will serve as important INDICATORS of project success.

In addition to the above, there will be half-yearly project publicity MEDIA OUTREACH and Innovative OPEN DAY activities to further strengthen the Mainstreaming of the Project Learning Function. Senior Embassy Staff from friendly DONOR COUNTRIES that will fund this ITTO Project will particularly be invited to such half-yearly project publicity media outreach and OPEN DAY activities, as well as occasional appearances at Project Steering Committee Meetings.

At the OFFICIAL PROJECT COMPLETION Function, the Project Management Team shall again invite Senior Ghanaian Policy Makers - especially high-ranking Ghanaian Women Policy Makers) as well as committed Senior Embassy Staff from DONOR COUNTRIES that will fund this ITTO Project. This makes policy makers and decision-makers to publicly make and renew COMMITMENTS to the pursuit of the Project’s OBJECTIVES and their practical REALIZATION.

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Annex 1:

Profile of the Executing Agency (EA)

Name: PITRIS CONSULT Postal Address: P. O. Box CT 4445, CANTONMENTS, ACCRA, Ghana. E-mail Addresses: [email protected]

A1.1 Year of Establishment of PITRIS CONSULT: 1977.

Pitris Consult is a registered small private research and consulting firm dedicated to participatory women group development, training, rural forestry institutional capacity building, as well as health-related NTFP promotion. The rich reforestation experience of its Project Management Team, as well as the experience of some of its Steering Committee Members dates back at least ten years. A1.2 The Mission of Pitris Consult The Mission of Pitris Consult is to empower disadvantaged forest-fringe groups to protect, rehabilitate, and sustainably use their local natural resources. This pre-supposes the promotion of Co-Management approaches at grassroots level, as well as the development of multipurpose NTFPs.

A1.3 Areas of Expertise of Pitris Consult:

Reforestation and Forest Rehabilitation of Degraded Land. Capacity development of forest-fringe communities, especially in the area of Collaborative Forest

Management. Training of rural forestry-related institutional actors using Transformative Learning Methodologies. Participatory preparation of small and medium-scale Business Plans for Financial Institutions. Rural Community-Level Climate Change Issues: namely, Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies. NGO Accounting Software Marketing and Installation.

A1.4 General Organization Chart of Pitris Consult:

Board of Directors Executive

Director

General Manager (Operations)

General Administration

Projects Implementation Division

Accounts Department

Research & Development

A1.5 Projects and Studies Conducted by Pitris Consult Over the Past Three Years:

Project / Study Thrust and Status Donor AgencyFrom 2014 – 2016: “Participatory Guidance of ten forest-fringe rural communities in Ahafo Ano, Ghana, in the Preparation of Community-Level Climate Change Adaptation Tool-kits for Agricultural Purposes”

Currently on-going successfullyaccording to plan.

THRUST: Community-Level Climate Change Adaptation Tool- kits

Care International / Pitris Consult through Ghana Ministry of Food & Agriculture (MOFA). Budget: US$520,800

From 2013-2015: Financial & Marketing Capacity Building for 32 Small- and Medium-Scale Ghanaian Businesses: Volta & Eastern Regions of Ghana”

Institutional Capacity Building. Main Thrust: Business Plan Preparation for Thriving Women Business Enterprises

DFID, Pitris Consult, MDPI(Management Development & Productivity Institute, Accra.

Budget: US$480,600

From 2013-2015: CONTRACTED FIELD STUDY: “The potentials for

Field Study Completed Pitris Consult, with the Ghana

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Project BUDGET (ITTO + Others)From 2014 – 2016: “Participatory Guidance of ten forest-fringe rural communities in Ahafo Ano, Ghana, in the Preparation of Community- Level Climate Change Adaptation Tool-kits for Agricultural Purposes”

Care International / Pitris Consultthrough Ghana Ministry of Food & Agriculture (MOFA). Budget: US$520,000

From 2013-2015: Financial & Marketing Capacity Building for 32 Small- and Medium-Scale Ghanaian Businesses: Volta & Eastern Regions of Ghana”

DFID / Pitris Consult, MDPI(Management Development & Productivity Institute, Accra. Budget: US$480,600

From 2013-2015: CONTRACTED FIELD STUDY: “The potentials foreffective reforestation of degraded lands using selected indigenous forest tree species: Practical experiences of local forest improvement organizations and NGOs”.

Pitris Consult, with the GhanaAssociation of Environmental NGOs. Budget: GHC1,356,000 i.e. US$435,000

From 2011-2013: ITTO PD 534-08 Rev. 1(F): Women’s Rural Reforestation with Nutrition Promotion: Phase 2

International Tropical TimberOrganization (ITTO). Budget: US$639,349 (ITTO plus local contribution)

ITTO Project PD 396-06 Rev. 1(F): Women’s Rural Reforestation with Nutrition Promotion: Phase 1

Budget: US$217,866 (ITTO pluslocal contribution)

effective reforestation of degraded lands using selected indigenous forest tree species: Practical experiences of local forest improvement organizations and NGOs”.

Successfully. MAIN THRUST: Reforestation Research

Association of EnvironmentalNGOs.

Budget: GHC1,356,000 i.e. US$435,000

From 2011-2013: ITTO PD 534-08 Rev. 1(F): Women’s Rural Reforestation with Nutrition Promotion: Phase 2

Successfully Completed. “ProjectCompletion Report” submitted and approved by the ITTO.

MAIN THRUST: Reforestation, rehabilitation, and improvement of degraded lands owned by rural women.

International Tropical TimberOrganization (ITTO).

Budget: US$639,349 (ITTO plus local contribution)

A1.6 Projects Conducted by Pitris Consult FOR THE ITTO: Name of ITTO Project Conducted

by PITRIS CONSULT

STATUS Donor & Budget ITTO Project PD 534-08 Rev. 1(F)

Successfully Completed. “Project Completion Report” submitted and approved by the ITTO.

Budget: US$639,349 (ITTO plus local contribution)

ITTO Project PD 396-06 Rev. 1(F)

Successfully Completed. “Project Completion Report” submitted and approved by the ITTO.

Budget: US$217,866 (ITTO pluslocal contribution)

A2.0 The Infrastructure / Resources of Pitris Consult Pitris Consult has a general office at Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region. PITRIS CONSULT also has a Projects Office at KOFORIDUA in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The new Eastern Region Office is located at No. 68, Koforidua-Nkurakan Road, Koforidua. The organization has eight computers and six laptops, two pick-up vehicles, six saloon cars, and four motorcycles. It has a key staff of five professionals (including a Forest Economist, two recently retired Foresters, two Sociologists, two Agro-Processing & Training Managers, two Accountants, an ICT Specialist (conversant with ITTO POLMS); two qualified and experienced Seed Nursery Specialists, a Natural Science Graduate, and two experienced Community Animators, plus five part-time Graduate Consulting Assistants. Kindly see chart under A4.0 below.

A3.0 PREVIOUS PROJECT BUDGETS: ITTO & OTHERS:

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A4.0 PITRIS CONSULT PERSONNEL (Matrix & Aggregates) – as at 1st December 2015

Personnel TYPE Total

Number Number

of Women

Qualification Types

Number of personnel with post-graduate degrees

6 2 4 PhD Degrees (in Economics, Forestry, Sociology, Geography), and 2 Masters’ Degrees in Agriculture & Agro-Business.

Number of personnel with graduate degrees 5 2

BSc. & BA Degrees as in thesubject areas above, plus Land Surveying. One ACCA (UK), and one ICAG (Accounting, Ghana)

Number of personnel with national diploma and other middle-level technicians

4 3 National Diploma: Forestry, Food Science,

Number of administrative personnel and support staff

5 2 With appropriate administrativequalifications, and fieldwork experience.

Curricula Vitae of KEY Staff (of the Executing Agency)

1st Key Implementing Agency Staff (Project Coordinator)

1.0 Name: Paul K. Pawar (PhD. Stockholm, Sweden, 1994) 1.1 Address: P. O. Box CT 4445, Cantonments, Accra Ghana. 1.2 Sex: Male. 1.3 Date of Birth: 14th October 1948. 1.4 Nationality: Ghanaian. 1.5 Marital Status: Married. 1.6 Religion: Christian. 2.0 Educational Background 2.1 PhD. Degree + MSc. (Stockholm University) in Institutional Capacity Building (1994 & 1988). 2.2 B.Sc. Degree (Economics with Sociology) University of Ghana, Legon. 3.0 Relevant Work Experience: 3.1 Has served successfully as Project Coordinator for two Women’s ITTO Reforestation Projects successfully,

namely: PD 393/06 Rev. 1(F)), and ITTO PD 534/08 Rev. 1 (F). 3.2 Has since 2000 conducted extensive research on Forest Reserve Co-Management Practices in Ghana,

especially in the Volta Region 3.3 Was consultant to the civil society organizations that implemented the EU – Government of Ghana

Decentralized Program that reforested the Kalakpa River Source in the Volta Region. 3.4 Has over the past three years served as Consultant on several CFM related programs undertaken by FSD-

FORUM in the Volta Region. 3.5 Has recently written a training manual on Co-Management Practices that work. 3.6 Has in 2004-2005 been conducting field research on Royal Noni and Moringa use practices in selected

Districts of Ghana.

2nd Key Implementing Agency Staff (Senior Nursery Officer

1.0 Name: Madam Margaret. G. Boateng 1.1 Address: P. O. Box CT 4445 Cantonments, Accra.1.2 Sex: Male. 1.3 Date of Birth: 4th April 1972 1.4 Nationality: Ghanaian. 1.5 Marital Status: Married with children 1.6 Religion: Christian.

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2.0 Educational Background: 2.1 An Old Product of the Ghana Forestry School, Sunyani (Now a Tertiary Forestry Institution in Ghana) 3.0 Relevant Work Experience: 3.1 Has since 2000 served as Nursery Officer in Koforidua.

3rd Key Implementing Agency Staff (Community Animator)

1.0 Name: Nyamekye P. Akua Vinolia 1.1 Address: P. O. Box CT 4445, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana. 1.2 Sex: Female. 1.3 Date of Birth: 10th August 1980. 1.4 Nationality: Ghanaian. 1.5 Marital Status: Single 1.6 Religion: Christian. 2.0 Educational Background 2.2 B.Sc. Degree, University of Ghana, Legon. 2.3 Has attended several post-qualification workshops in Forestry and Economic Geography.

.0 Relevant Work Experience: 3.1 Has worked part-time with Pitris Consult during the Phase One Period (2007-2008) 3.2 Was very active in several Kumasi-based NGOs on food packaging. 3.3 Has in the past conducted research on Royal Noni Uses.

4th Key Implementing Agency Staff (ICT Officer / Secretary)

1.0 Name: Kofi Bawua 1.1 Address: P. O. Box KS - 4609, Kumasi, Ghana.1.2 Sex: Male. 1.3 Date of Birth: 4th June 1972. 1.4 Nationality: Ghanaian. 1.5 Marital Status: Married. 1.6 Religion: Christian.

2.0 Educational Background

2.1 MA Degree (ICT – KNUST); B.Sc. Degree KNUST (Renewable Natural Resources).

3.0 Relevant Work Experience: 3.1 Has worked extensively on Community Reforestation Programs in the Western Region.

5th Key Implementing Agency Staff (Nursery Officer: Indigenous Tree Species) 1.0 Name: Rose-Mary Boateng 1.1 Address: P. O. Box CT 4445, Cantonments, Ghana.1.2 Sex: Female. 1.3 Date of Birth: 19th July 1970. 1.4 Nationality: Ghanaian. 1.5 Marital Status: Married. 1.6 Religion: Christian. 2.0 Educational Background 2.1 National Diploma (Forestry). Graduate of the Premier Sunyani Forestry School. 3.0 Relevant Work Experience 3.1 Has worked as Senior Forestry Range Supervisor in four Ghanaian Forestry Districts for 20 years. She has

also worked with GTZ on a ten-year Forest Reserve (enrichment planting program.)

6th Key Implementing Agency Staff (Women Livelihoods Training Manager)

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1.0 Name: Mary Awura-Adjoa Amoah 1.1 Address: P. O. Box KS - 4609, Kumasi, Ghana.1.2 Sex: Female. 1.3 Date of Birth: 30th December 1973 1.4 Nationality: Ghanaian. 1.5 Marital Status: Married. 1.6 Religion: Christian.

2.0 Educational Background 2.1 Diploma in Food Processing & Nutrition. 2.2 Has attended several workshops in Ghana and other countries

3.0 Relevant Work Experience 3.1 Served successfully as Moringa Products Processing and Training Manager during two Women’s ITTO

Reforestation Projects, namely: PD 393/06 Rev. 1(F)), and ITTO PD 534/08 Rev. 1 (F). 3.2 Worked for almost 6 years as Business Advisor to rural women groups in Ashanti and Volta Regions of

Ghana. 3.3 Was part of the Pitris Consult team that served as consultant to three civil society organizations that

implemented the EU – Government of Ghana Decentralized Program that reforested the Kalakpa River Source in the Volta Region.

7th Key Implementing Agency Staff (Project Accountant)

1.0 Name: Joseph Quarshie Tetteh 1.1 Address: P. O. Box CT 4445 Cantonments, Accra.Ghana.1.2 Sex: Male. 1.3 Date of Birth: 4th April 1977 1.4 Nationality: Ghanaian. 1.5 Marital Status: Married with one child. 1.6 Religion: Christian. 2.0 Educational Background 2.1 Has the Final Certificates of the Ghana Chartered Institute of Accountants, as well as ACCA (UK). He also

has a Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship from Waterloo University, Canada.

OTHER Key Implementing Agency Staff Members Currently on SHORT Training Programs: Cletus K.Gyato (MSc.): Deputy Project Coordinator (Rehabilitation, Agriculture and Food Management). Lawrence Osei, (Under further training on indigenous species seedlings production) D. K. Mintah, (As above) Solomon Asiedu (Undertaking training in “Rural communication Strategies”. Portia A. Ayi (Under further training in ICT and Accounting).

PROJECT IMPLEMENTING PARTNER: “Forests of Hope” (NGO)

Particulars of JUNIOR PARTNER NGO:

Name of NGO: “FORESTS OF HOPE” (NGO) Registering Body: Ghana Registrar General’s Department, Accra. Number on Registration Certificate: “G 35,328” Number on Certificate to Commence Business: “G 35,328” Registration Date: 11th January 2011. Establishment Date: 2008

Satisfied Clients: OSIWA as Complementary Donor, and project successfully executed with Other Project Implementers in

Ghana’s Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone in Northern Ghana: Project Title: “Planting of 450-acre Commercial Teak by the Youth and Youth Peer Group Leaders (Krachie East)”.

Katanga Traditional Authority (VR, Ghana): Mixed tree species planting (178 acres), plus 56 acres of Cassia Siamea Fuel wood.

Training of 96 Rural Women in commercial bakery using LPG Gas. Donor: Maryland based private religious donor (USA)

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IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER: “Forests of Hope NGO”

THE PARTNER NGO to the main Executing Agency (EA) is called “FORESTS OF HOPE NGO”. It is an ALL - WOMEN- OWNED Non-Governmental Organization. It has been in existence and active organization for seven years. About 90 per cent of “FORESTS OF HOPE NGO” Management Team are very energetic and qualified GHANAIAN WOMEN. The partner NGO was also registered at the REGISTRAR GENERALS’s DEPARTMENT in Accra, Ghana. “FORESTS OF HOPE NGO” was registered as an NGO dedicated to the promotion of Climate-Adapting Livelihoods Promotion in rural disadvantaged communities. The rich rural women’s livelihoods promotion experience of its Project MANAGEMENT TEAM dates back 7 years in the Ashanti and Eastern Regions of Ghana.

The Vision of “Forests of Hope NGO” is to grow gradually into an effective GHANAIAN WOMEN NGO dedicated to the promotion of Climate-Resilient Livelihoods Promotion in rural disadvantaged communities.

The Mission of Forests of Hope NGO is to empower disadvantaged forest-fringe women to effectively learn HOW to generate satisfactory incomes from their disadvantaged rural settings.

The Infrastructure of Forests of Hope (Partner NGO) Forests of Hope NGO has an office in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It has two computers, one strong saloon car, and an old KIA distribution wagon. It has a key staff of THREE Professionals Dieticians, two Agro-Processing & Training Managers, one Forester, plus two part-time Lady-Graduate Trainees.

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Annex 2: Tasks, Roles, and Responsibilities of National Experts Engaged by the Executing Agency (EA)

A2.1 Title of Position: Project Coordinator

A2.1 Role: He or She is the overall MANAGER of the project in terms of successful coordination of planned activities towards the achievement of all project objectives, outputs, and outcomes.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Coordination of all project personnel and provision of professional, technical, and management orientation to achieve established project objectives, outputs, targets, and goals.

Lead participatory project management and task force teams to develop yearly work plans and budgets. Play the role of an active catalyst within the Project Technical Committee as well as the Project Steering Committee. Coordinate the implementation of the project along with the relevant six project women groups in line with

environmental, livelihood, and forestry policies of the Ghana Forestry Commission. Supervise the selection of project consultants and training resource persons upon consultation with primary project

stakeholders. Assist in the establishment of all project training and capacity building functions. Supervise the elaboration and professional preparation of all project technical, administrative, and implementation

documents. Supervise the timely preparation and achievement of project progress reports, monitoring, review, and evaluation of

results, outputs, and outcomes, within approved project financial capabilities and constraints. Ensure the effectiveness and professional preparation of all Project Audit Reports as well as end -of-project Completion

Report to the ITTO and other project-related stakeholders

A2.2 Title of Position: Women’s Livelihoods Training Manager

A2.2 Role: The central point of this position is creativity geared towards profit in an environmentally-conscious manner. The occupant should therefore be a very shrewd and creative business woman who is also environmentally- friendly. Her task is to motivate the community disadvantaged women to bring out creative ideas that are climate resilient, profitable, and sustainable. Her mission in the project is to prompt the women beneficiaries to help themselves in the spirit of the project. She is the main catalyst for the women to significantly improve upon their income-earning capacity and standard of living.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Train the disadvantaged community women to be aware of the stresses and potential openings that Climate Change places on their local livelihood systems.

(With the active participation of the beneficiary women) Design local climate-resilient livelihood systems that quadruple their current earnings.

Advise and train the women to put into practice what they mutually decide to product, and which are consis tent with the objectives and spirit of the project.

Assist and guide the women beneficiaries to establish flexible and sustainable sales, marketing, and simple financial accounting systems that support their livelihoods.

A2.3 Title of Position: Nursery Officer

A2.3 Role: To lead project staff and primary stakeholders in the establishment of a thriving Central Project Nursery that will generate a minimum of 360,000 healthy tree seedlings required by the project, at minimal cost, and in a sustainable manner.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Procure qualitative project-adequate seeds from approved FSD sources for onward nursing on professionally cultivated project nursery plots.

Train community collaborative forest management members (especially the women reforestation members) regarding the professional handling of seeds prior to germination and nurturing on nursery plots.

Play an active catalyst role in the securing of healthy indigenous tree seeds from local forests to complement FSD seed purchases.

Professionally manage the project nursery to serve its key project implementation role as healthy seeds supplier. This includes good care of all nursery properties, tools and equipment.

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A2.4 Title of Position: Community Animators (2 positions)

A2.4 Role: The role of Project Community Animator is to motivate primary and secondary project stakeholders to remain active participants in the implementation of the project. His or her communication, motivation, negotiation, and persuading capabilities must remain excellent before, during, and after the project implementation per iod.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

(The Community Animator in charge of Reforestation) Should motivate project reforestation agents and beneficiaries to remain committed to the spirit of the reforestation and natural regeneration exercise.

Guide project beneficiaries to be active in discussions and negotiations regarding project challenges, and how to overcome them.

Play that role within forestry institutions that serve as agents of change as well as stakeholders at multiple levels. (The Community Animator in charge of Climate-Resilient Women Livelihoods) Should motivate target disadvantaged

women beneficiaries to remain committed to the spirit quadrupling incomes for primary beneficiaries in a sustainable manner.

A2.4 Title of Position: Project Administrative Accountant

A2.4 Role: The Project Accountant is the Financial Gate Keeper of the project’s scarce resources. His or her business

mantra should be:”Penny wise, pound foolish!”

RESPONSIBILITIES: Keep all detailed accounts of the project, including in-coming monies and detailed expenditures according to modern

professional international accounting procedures, standards, and principles. Conduct all accounting duties as ITTO statutes demand, and as the project management team shall request. Prepare special accounts for PTC and Steering Committee Meetings in line with ITTO rules and regulations. Prepare data for use by external auditors in line with ITTO regulations. Make bank and other project financial reconciliations as demanded by project management.

A2.5 Title of Position: Project Secretary

A2.5 Role: The Project Secretary is the Official Scribe and Records Keeper of the Project. What is committed to paper shall remain true, documented, and intact for future reference.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Shall reply all correspondence or enquiries as project management shall request. Shall help keep the office and refer all requests from project stakeholders and the general public to Project

Management as necessary. Shall “set the tables” and prepare for all official project meetings and write appropriate minutes. Shall assist project team members and stakeholders in the preparation of project progress reports and

allied EA and ITTO statutory reports in an accurate and timely manner.

(Kindly see Annex 3 on the next page)

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Proposal Annex 3:

Terms of Reference for the Consultant-Sociologist Who Shall Conduct the Socio-Economic Baseline Survey

A3.1.0 Introduction

In pursuance of the objectives of sustainably managing the private off-reserve forests of Ghana (and specifically the forests of Rural Akwapim and the Upper Krobo Sub-Districts) for environmental protection, rehabilitation, production, effective land use, and for the multiple benefits of all segments of society, the Ghana Forestry Commission and the Development Partner Agencies encourage the participatory designing of integrated forest management planning systems. In this respect, socio-economic surveys of relevant forest-fringe communities are required to provide a useful data-base for effective planning and implementation. A3.1The purpose of this Socio-Economic Survey of the Targeted Sub-District is to:

A3.1.1 Identify all communities, villages, and cottages that are dependent on the chosen area forests. A3.1.2 Understand the socio-economic CONTEXT of participatory and sustainable forest management. A3.1.3 Ensure that all relevant communities are aware of the planning and rehabilitation processes and

are able to participate fully. A3.1.4 Help discover all potentials for community-level participation in sustainable forest management.

This project (ITTO PD 780/15 Rev.1(F) is therefore requesting the services of a highly qualified Consultant- Sociologist (with related background experience in Forestry and / or Development Economics) to carry out this survey.

A3.2.0 Scope of the Survey

The Consultant shall, in close consultation with the relevant communities and related district institutions, constitute a team to conduct the said socio-economic survey. Generally, the Consultant shall identify all socio-economic indicators within the relevant communities, especially the following:

Demographic and physical data indicators. Socio-economic and forest resource use indicators. Forest resource management and regulation indicators. Potentials of collaborative forest management indicators.

Specifically, the Consultant shall:

A3.2.1 PREPARE and discuss the survey plan and instruments with the District Forest Services Office and

key area representatives or stakeholders. A3.2.2 DESCRIBE the socio-economic CONTEXT of the communities with respect to population, land

tenure, women land rights under the land tenure system, tree planters’ rights in planted trees, livelihoods for women and men, access to small credit, labor, farming systems, infrastructure, forest-based institutions, as well as attitudes and perceptions regarding forest use, protection, and rehabilitation.

A3.2.3 CLARIFY the existing forest resource ownership rights and access to products. A3.2.4 IDENTIFY the needs (and conflicts) of relevant interest groups dependent on the forest. A3.2.5 INDICATE ways to improve upon local community incomes and welfare through Sustainable Forest

Management (SFM) practices. A3.2.6 COLLATE indigenous knowledge patterns regarding forest and ecology systems that can further

support Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) practices. A3.2.7 IDENTIFY forest-products marketing chains and possibilities for products value adding. A3.2.8 EXPLAIN with Communities, DISCUSS, and REPORT on relevant forestry-related legislation and

regulations that directly and indirectly affect their lives. A3.2.9 COLLATE ideas and suggestions from other forest use interest groups regarding strategies that

can re-enforce best practices of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). A3.2.10 MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS on systems for ALLEVIATING POVERTY in the forest-fringe

communities.

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A3.3.0 Methodology

The Consultant and his / or her team shall use appropriate sociological, anthropological, and allied research methodologies that rely on diverse means of information and data collection. Statistical sampling processes must be used in a professional way. There must be a professional blend between qualitative and quantitative data, gathered through sub-surveys or household research.

A3.4.0 Duration of Contract and Written Report Submission Procedures

The Consultant shall present a DRAFT WRITTEN REPORT on the survey within 60 full working days from the date of signing the contract to the Project Stakeholders. Stakeholders shall make written comments (if any) within twenty-one working days from the date the draft report is received. The Consultant shall submit a FINAL WRITTEN REPORT to Project Stakeholders within 21 days after receipt of written comments from stakeholders.

(Kindly see Annex 4 on the next page)

Project Proposal Annex 4: The Overall Assessment and Specific Recommendations of the 51st Expert Panel (A) Overall Assessment The Panel recognized the proponent’s efforts to address the comments in the overall assessment and most specific recommendations made by the Fiftieth Expert Panel. However, the Panel noted that there were still a need to improve and amend some sections and sub-sections of this gender-oriented project which could be dealing with the reforestation using indigenous species and involving women groups in six rural communities in Ghana’s Akwapim and Upper Krobo Districts. The Panel also noted that the project proposal contained a number of weaknesses in the following sections and sub-sections: (1) Expected outcomes at project completion still not elaborated in connection with the outcome indicators of the specific objectives as recommended by the ITTO Manual for Project Formulation, and also presenting a table with figures not well explained; (2) further explanation still needed in the stakeholder analysis on how the six rural women groups were selected in view of their involvement in the project implementation and particularly in relation to the gender-based differences in forest resource access; (3) ITTO Budget with the highest proportion assigned to the remuneration of personnel: (4) Need to further explain how to sustain forest plantations established by women groups, as well as how to sustain their livelihoods after the project completion, while taking into account the key assumptions mentioned in the Logical Framework Matrix. The proponent’s efforts to address the comments in the OVERALL ASSESSMENT above (a) Project Section 1.4.1: “HOW were the calculations of profitability of the women’s livelihood products made?” EXPLANATION: In the products profitability chart seen in Section 1.4.1 of the project proposal, (particularly for human processed livelihood products like “Kenkey”, “Awakye”, “Local nutrient-rich bread”, and local nutrient-rich biscuits”, we estimated: (a) Planned quantity of products expected during one year; (b) Estimated average price for the product based on the food industry average figure; and (c ) “Estimated cost-of-sales” – implying all vital ingredients cost (including labor, fuel-energy, packaging costs, retailing costs, transport, and tax-levies (if any). Our figures were based on (among others) State-published NBSSI Statistics regarding “similar thriving micro businesses in the Eastern and Greater-Accra Regions. Other supporting statistics were from the Ghana Women Food Vendors Platform and allied associations mentioned under Section 1.4.1 in the proposal. Regarding the planted-crop climate-resilient products, main input costs included land preparation, seeds and seedlings cost, planting and plot maintenance cost, pest control, as well as harvesting and marketing costs (here again based on State-published NBSSI Statistics regarding “similar thriving micro agro-businesses in the Eastern and Greater-Accra Regions. (b) “HOW were the six project women groups selected?” EXPLANATION: An early and detailed explanation of this “Project Community Women Groups Selection PROCESS” originally appeared under Part One, Section 1.1 under “The Origin of the Project”. During the successful implementation of an earlier ITTO Project PD 534/08 in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, the women project beneficiaries of that project (PD 534/08) took part in a women’s livelihoods mini-trade fair at Madina, near Accra. Three enthusiastic women group leaders (all members of the Ghana Presbyterian Rural Women’s Fellowship) from rural Akwapim and Upper Krobo Districts (the current project area) also visited the Madina fair as curious observers. These curious observer Akwapim-Krobo visiting women saw beautiful, creative, and demand-oriented products that the Ashanti women exhibited under the patronage of ITTO PD 534/08 Rev. 1(F). The happy encounter led to a series of community meetings between the women executive leaders of ITTO PD 534/08 Rev. 1(F), and the Akwapim-Krobo Women play-makers of the Ghana Presbyterian Rural Women’s Fellowship. A joint invitation was extended to Pitris Consult (as a firm and steady project executing agency of an earlier, similar project). In other words, the “Project Community Women Groups under current planned ITTO Project PD 780/15 Rev. 2(F) selected and grouped themselves, bound by a common bond to take advantage of a like-minded progressive “forests-improvement-donor, the ITTO and Pitris Consult (a successful EA), to improve their local forest resources and expand their climate-resilient women’s livelihoods base (Kindly see the next page for specific modifications in tabular form)

Recommendations of the 51st Expert Panel and Modifications made by Project Formulators

Specific Recommendations Made by the

51st Expert Panel Modifications Made

Pages and Sections where the modifications can

be seen (1) Further improve the stakeholders’ analysis and related table of stakeholders by providing information in relation to the gender-based differences in forest resource access

(1) We have further improved the stakeholders’ analysis and related table of stakeholders by providing information in relation to the gender-based differences in forest resource access

Section 2.1.2, Page 18

(2) Furthermore improve the description of the outcomes at project completion in Section 1.4 mainly in consistency with the outcomes indicators of the specific objective, while avoiding to describe expected outputs and activities.

(2) We have furthermore improved the description of the outcomes at project completion in Section 1.4 mainly in consistency with the outcomes indicators of the specific objective, while avoiding to describe expected outputs and activities.

Section 1.4 Pages 14 - 15

(3) Improve the Sub-Section 3.5.2 (Sustainability) by explaining how to sustain forest plantations to be established by women groups, as well as how to sustain their livelihood after the project completion, in accordance with the key assumptions made in the Logical Framework Matrix.

(3) We have improved the Sub-Section 3.5.2 (“sustainability”) by explaining how to sustain forest plantations to be established by women groups, as well as how to sustain their livelihood after the project completion, in accordance with the key assumptions made in the Logical Framework Matrix.

Section 3.5.2 Page 40

(4) Prepare the ITTO Budget in line with the above overall assessment and specific recommendations and also the following: (a) Reduce the ITTO Budget by transferring some budget costs from the ITTO contribution to the counterpart contribution {Project Coordinator (budget item 11), electricity and water (budget item 53.1), and simple field office furniture (budget item 54.2)}, and also by reducing by half the remuneration of the remaining personnel (budget items 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18) (b) Adjust the budget item 81 to the standard rate of US$10,000.oo instead of US$12,000.oo per year for the monitoring and review costs (US$30,000.oo for 3 years. (c) Re-calculate the ITTO Program Support Costs (sub-item 85) so as to conform with the standard rate of 12 % of the total ITTO costs (on budget items 10 to 82.

(4) We have prepared the ITTO Budget in line with the above overall assessment and specific recommendations and also the following: (a) We have reduced the ITTO Budget by transferring some budget costs from the ITTO contribution to the counterpart contribution {Project Coordinator (budget item 11), electricity and water (budget item 53.1), and simple field office furniture (budget item 54.2)}, and also, we have reduced by half the remuneration of the remaining personnel (budget items 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18) (b) We have adjusted the budget item 81 to the standard rate of US$10,000.oo instead of US$12,000.oo per year for the monitoring and review costs (US$30,000.oo for 3 years. (c) We have re-calculated the ITTO Program Support Costs (sub-item 85) so as to conform with the standard rate of 12 % of the total ITTO costs (on budget items 10 to 82.

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(5) Include an Annex that shows theoverall assessment and respective recommendations of the 51st Expert Panel and respective MODIFICATIONS in tabular form. Modifications should also be highlighted (bold and underlined) in the text.

(5) We have added an Annex stating the overall assessment and specific recommendations made. Our Modifications are highlighted in bold and underlined.

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