PROGRESSIVE REPORT CBCCA PROJECT

Kigali November 2014.

ABOUT RECOR RECOR is a National NGO started in 2000 Registered as a National NGO in 2004 It deals with Water and sanitation, Education for Sustainable development, soil conservation, reforestation, Promotion of sustainable management and

utilization of renewable energy Biodiversity conservation Climate change For more information visit

www.rwandaenvironment.org

RECOR is a member of NBDF and jointly developed this project

In line with RECOR experience, the partnership in this project consist of establishment of 5 model village in 4 districts of Eastern Province : Bugesera, Nyagatare, Kirehe and Gatsibo

PARTNERSHIP AND BENEFICIARIES IN CBCCA PROJECT

The emphasis is on piloting best practices and models community based climate change adaptation actions on the ground; establishing model villages to serve as examples in climate change adaptation and environmental protection for poverty reduction.

Beneficiaries of the project are 500 households composed of 2456 family members, 1892 of them are women. Beneficiaries provides labour, RECOR support them with technical knowhow, material and seeds

PARTNERSHIP AND BENEFICIARIES IN CBCCA PROJECT

Rain water harvesting, 15 water tanks of 10m3 to serve 75 households in all villages

500 Vegetable gardens in all villages Support beneficiaries to plant 2,000

improved fruit trees resistant to climate variability

Power 20 households per village with solar energy for lighting, radio powering and phone charging

Content of the model villages

Hillsides irrigation with pumped water from valley dam in Bugesera and surface water collection in Nyagihanga

15000 agroforestry trees grown in community nurseries and planted in the model villages

5 Compost making for supplying manure to vegetable gardens

Goats keeping for increased organic manure and improvement of livelihood for vulnerable people (80 goats)

Content of the model villages Cont’d

Improved cooking stoves for reducing pressure on the vegetation cover and time spent on firewood collection (1250 Cooking stoves constructed in 5 villages)

Content of the model villages Cont’d

Sites identification

ACHIEVEMENTS UP TO DATE

Determine the use of the plots Plan space for each use and crop rotation in

each parts of the plots Determine which part is suitable for a

certain crop specie

Mapping plots

Demonstration of kitchen gardens resistant to long droughts

established 100 vegetable gardens per village, ie 500 vegetable gardens per 5 villages in 4 districts (per each season)

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

Kitchen watered by a pot Double dug kitchen for water retention

Hillsides irrigation in Rutobotobo village, Bugesera district

Cabbage harvesting on a consolidated land

Onions plantation on a consolidated land Near a valley dam

Improved fruit seedlings with high production in short time

Each family received 2 grafted avocadoes seedlings (Hass specie), 1 mango (Tomi) and 1 Orange (Washington), a total of 100 families per village benefited i.e 500 families per 5 model villages.

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

Grafted fruit trees are in good condition

Average growth rate is at 75% Gatebe II Village in Nyagatare coming at 1st

place where the growth rate is more than 98%

Munini Village is last at 30% of growth rate Other species of fruit trees are in nurseries

to cover the loss incured

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

Rain water harvesting Construction of 15 underground water tank

to serve 75 families

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

Tanks are near completion, they need final touches like installation of filters

Completion of water tanks took longer than expected due to various unforeseen circumstances like shortage of construction materials in some areas, relocation of the tanks due to rocks found during excavation, etc

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

Villages greening

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

5 nurseries established for 5 villages Each nursery is supposed to have 3000

trees of various tree species according to the choice of beneficiaries. Among the species we can note : Calliandra, Papaya, Croton Megalocarpus, Grevellea, Desmodium, Cassia ssp , etc

Tree planting commenced in Bugesera Villages

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

Ornamental trees planted in the yards

Beneficiaries commit themselves to care planted trees

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

Tree nursery at Gatebe II village in Nyagatare district

Tree nursery in Nyamikamba village Gatsibo district

Each village was supposed to have 3000 seedlings but many of them surpassed the number. For example in Nyamikamba Gatsibo district, we have 7,600 Trees in one nursery, In Rutobotobo village, the nursery has 5500 Trees.

Each nursery has ornamental trees, fruits, agroforestry trees and fodder shrubs

Transplantation is due from17th to 24 of November 2014

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

Compost making

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’D

Composts are at their last stage of preparation, they should be used within 15 days from now

Support beneficiaries to create Voluntary serving and loan schemes to become cooperatives

Training on climate change impact identification and solving

Training on finding climate change adaptation options

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT’DEmpowerment of beneficiaries

Training on sustainable farming and building a climate resilient agriculture

Training on establishment of a drought resistant kitchen garden

Provide vegetable specie resistant to long drought.

Support beneficiaries to build energy saving cooking stoves (1250 stoves, ie 250 per village) for reducing the use of biomass and time spent on firewood collection

Goats keeping for improvement of livelihood and organic manure (80 families get goats)

Solar energy for demonstration of clean energy use at homestead (100 families connected to solar power)

Hillside irrigation in Rutobotobo village in Bugesera and Nyamikanda village in Gatsibo

WAY FORWARD

Some of the beneficiaries (elders, People living with disabilities, etc) are unable to contribute to the project activities and may reduce the rate of replication of the project activities

Some of the houses in the villages are occupied by tenants, that makes them feel not stable to participate in kitchen gardens establishment

Some of the village members are carrying their activities far from the village and come at home for sleeping only so they didn’t benefit project activities.

Turnover of field officers

CHALLENGES

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