COMMUNITY LED LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT PROJECT (CLLMP)

The Government of Meghalaya with financial help from the World Bank is implementing the Meghalaya Community Led Landscape Management Project (MCLLMP). The project covers the entire state of Meghalaya and implementation of community-led plans are rolled out in a phased manner throughout the state. The Meghalaya Basin Management Agency (MBMA) will facilitate community-led planning by providing support, technical inputs and funding.

The project is intended to strengthen community-led natural resources management in selected landscapes within the 7 districts of the state. This would be achieved through a variety of planning, capacity building, and on-the-ground interventions to promote the conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, social inclusion and community mobilization; building traditional knowledge and learning, mapping of natural resources management; strengthening the community institutions and creating linkage with financial institutions and community organizations.

The project interventions will include preparation of community led natural resource management plans. The CLLMP has the following three components:

1. Strengthening Knowledge and Capacity of Communities for Natural Resources Management

2. Community-Led Landscape Planning and Implementation

3. Project Management and Governance

The project objective is “to manage and conserve the natural resources, especially forests, soil and water sources, in a manner that supports the financial and physical well-being of communities in the State”

INTRODUCTION

Baburambil village is situated under the Dalu C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 5 km from the Dalu Block and 52km from the district Headquarter, Tura. The village is under the traditional land owner of A’king Nokma. The total population and the demographic of both male and female of the village is about 482 with 86number of household. The village Latitude is 25.208879°North and Longitude 90.247161°East.

The total geographical area of the village is around 200.52 Ha with 2.0052sq.Km.

SOCIAL PROFILE

The Village is about 5Km away from Dalu Block and 52 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is in sumo, bus and private vehicle .In respect to the Social Mobilization, it wasn’t that difficult to handle the community of this village as they are active and hardworking. Despite of very less facilities available, the community are very keen towards achieving the aims and objectives of CLLMP.

Fuel /LPG /biomass/gas most of the households are using Wood sand very less access to LPG. The community has few facilities such as education, safe drinking water supply, road and access to medical facilities. The village is under Head of village (Nokma). About 110 households still uses woods for cooking whereas about 50 households use LPG.

Baburambil village has total no of 160 households with the total population of 730. Out of which are 380 males and 350are females.

The following is the demographic break up information acquired by the CLLMP team of WGH district.

The main occupation of the Baburambil village is farming which includes agriculture, multi cropping and cattle-rearing. Areca nut is always one of the most grown cash crops followed by cashew nut, banana, black pepper etc.

There are 135 HH Farmer, 16 HH are Business and 9 HH are Service.

ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

West Garo Hills district team Environment and Social Management and M&E visited Baburambil village, under Dalu block on the 11th Dec, 2018.

The visit was for Ground truthing and sensitization programme for the community. There were around 32 participants attended the sensitization programmes comprising of Nokma, VEC secretary and other community members.

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

1. The village has 160 HH with 730 total populations.

2. The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 2 streams and 3 springs.

3. The village has indigenous tree species such as:-Bauhinia variegate (Megong), bolchubret, Artocarpusheterophyllus(tebrong), Mangiferaindica (tegatchu), katbet, Ficus sp.(Prap), chirori, Bombyxceiba (bolchu), doldak, agru, giga, pakram, bolsal, tendile, chambura, gambari, masanchi, chidai,j alai, bognagas, chagro, bolsil, kasi, chigambal.

4. The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such asMasanchi, Gomperam, Bogasalgro, Kering, Angkil, Che.eng, Chambura, Tegachu, Samsueng, Shrubs-Dutduleng, Ruattik, Sambattal, Gaiabeen, Pasim.

5. Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are Segun, Bolsal, Rongi, Tebrong, Tegatchu, Gambari, Chram.

6. Water scarcity during winter season.

7. High soil erosion.

8. Irrigation problem due to scarcity of water.

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan on 1^st March 2019 at Baburambil Village Dalu Block, WGH.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Environment, Social Management and M&E. The Team informed the community that PRA exercise is to understand and locate the natural resources of the village and plan the activities according to their need. The community had an exercise to plan and draw resource and social map on the same day.

In the exercise of CNRM plan preparation, the community were asked to prioritized the plan /activities and submit the plan to DPMU for 5 years. The exercises were done in the presence of village headmen, VNRMCs and Village facilitators.

And on the 7th January 2019, the district team had a second visit to the village for signing of green charter and attend other formalities such as VGA, EOI etc. There were around 8 participants attended the meeting.

1. Signing of Documents:

As an acceptance and agreement to the project, every member of the village households had to sign green charter on 7^th January 2019and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

2. Formation of the VNRMC

On 7^th January 2019, after the ground survey and sensitization programme, the village signed the EOI, VGA and Green charter as a sign of accepting the project. Whereas in regards, to the selection of Village Natural Resource Management Committee (VNRMC) members the Village Executive Committee (VEC) along with entire community carried out the process of selecting 15 chosen members such as 9 Executive members, 3 Purchase committee and 3 Village Community Facilitator.

3. Listed below are the members of the VNRMC:

Sl No	Name in Full	Gender M/F	Age (in Yrs)	Education	Designation	Occupation	Community	Contact No and email address
1	PelwinSangma	F	36	Class 4	Member	Farmer	Garo	9362188703
2	Kitish Marak	M	65	Class 11	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
3	ProkashCh Marak	M	42	Class 3	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
4	Pingston S Sangma	M	26	Class 10	Chairman	VEC Sec	Garo	7085106800
5	Chengre T Sangma	F	25	Class 8	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	6009021360
6	Promila Marak	F	42	Class 4	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
7	Obola T Sangma	F	40	Class 4	Member	Farmer	Garo	8837340876
8	BancheraSangma	F	27	Class 10	Book keeper	Farmer	Garo	8132037674
	SelliaSangma	F	70	Class 4	Member	Farmer	Garo	8416082027
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Village Community Facilitators (VCF)

Sl No	Name in Full	Gender M/F	Age (Yrs)	Education	Area of specialisation/ focus (forests, water, soil, accounts, environmental and social safeguards, knowledge management, GIS)	Trained under CLLMP (Yes/ No?) if Yes, date training was received	Contact No and email address
1	Gatwin Marak	M	25	Claass 8	SM&KM	yes	8131823662
2	Rikrak S Sangma	M	23	Class 10	NRM&GIS	Yes	8413860670
3	Noni RimchiSangma	F	19	Class 10	M&E	Yes	-

Plan Estimate:

The DPMU team of WGH made an inspection to the proposed intervention sites soon after the CNRM plan preparation.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Work Status
1.	Community Nursery	Farmer’s Club	Completed
2.	Spring Chamber	Songgitcham	Completed
3.	Spring Chamber	Rangri Chikong	Completed
4.	18 Days Composting (Hot Composting)	Farmer’s Club, near nursery	Completed
5.	Plantation	Roadside	Completed
6.	Gabion Wall	Watre Gittim	Completed
7.	Dug out pond	Chiringgittim	Completed
8.	Dug Out Pond	Obila Gittim	Completed
9.	Dug Out Pond	A. du Gittim	Completed
10.	Dug out pond	Watre Gittim	Completed
11.	Erosion Control Gabion Wall	A. du Gittim	On-going
12.	Trenches with Plantation	Songgitcham Chikong	Completed
13.	Plantation	Govt. LP School Compound	Completed
14.	Erosion Control Gabion Wall	Watre Gittim	Ongoing
15.	Spring Chamber	Reka Chimik	On-going
16.	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Chiring Gittim	On-going
17.	Erosion Control Gabion Wall	Chiring Gittim

4. Fund Status

1.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Community Nursery	Farmer’s Club	Elevation 24m N 25.20360 E 090.24668	Rs. 90,000	Completed

2.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Songgitcham	Elevation 30m N 25.20562 E 090.24650	Rs. 1,17,860	Completed

3.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Rangri Chikong	Elevation 24m N 25.20660 E 090.24523	Rs. 1,17,860	Completed

Before After

4.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	18 Days Composting (Hot Composting)	Farmer’s Club, near nursery	Elevation 24m N 25.20360 E 090.24668	Rs. 33,000	Completed

5.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	Roadside	Elevation 30m N 25.20337 E 90.24751	Rs. 91,000	Completed

6.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Gabion Wall	Watre Gittim	Elevation 29m N 25.20703 E 090.24173	Rs. 1,92,000	Completed

7.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out pond	Chiring Gittim	Elevation 41m N 25.21235 E 090.24344	Rs. 1,12,000	Completed

8.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out pond	Obila Gittim	Elevation 33m N 25.20811 E 090.24872	Rs. 1,20,130	Completed

Before After

9.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out pond	A. du Gittim	Elevation 23m N 25.20519 E 090.24967	Rs. 1,16,000	Completed

10.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out pond	Watre Gittim	Elevation 24m N 25.20855 E 090.24391	Rs. 1,20,000	Completed

11.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Erosion Control Gabion Wall	A. du Gittim	Elevation 24m N 25.20793 E 090.24789	Rs. 3,22,000	On-going

12.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Trenches with Plantation	Songgitcham Chikong	Elevation 30m N 25.20562 E 090.24650	Rs. 51,000	Completed

Before After

13.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	Govt. LP School Compound	Elevation 37m N 25.20864 E 090.24741	Rs.1,10,000	Completed

14.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Erosion Control Gabion Wall	Watre Gittim	Elevation 23m N 25.20719 E 090.24368	Rs. 1,92,000	Ongoing

Before After

15.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Reka Chimik	Elevation 33m N 25.20743 E 090.24084	Rs. 2,15,000	On-going

Before After

16.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Chiring Gittim	Elevation 39.68m N 25.208722 E 90.244513	Rs.3,00,000	Ongoing

17.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Erosion Control Gabion Wall	Chiring Gittim	Elevation 32m N 25.21368 E 090.24818	Rs. 1,55,150