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

Bolchugre village is situated under the Dadenggre C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 1 km from the Dadenggre Block and 56 km 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 86 number of households. The village Latitude is 25.72297° North and Longitude 090.17691° East.

The total geographical area of the village is around 192.94Ha with 1.9294sq.Km.

SOCIAL PROFILE

The Village is about 1 Km away from Dadenggre Block and 56 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is in Auto rickshaw transport, bus, winger 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.

In the Bolchugre Village 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 64 households still uses woods for cooking whereas about 22 households use LPG.

Bolchugre village has total no of 86 households with the total population of 482. Out of which are 241 males and 241 are females.

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

The main occupation practiced over there in Bolchugre village is farming which includes agriculture and multi cropping. Areca nut is always one of the most grown cash crops followed by cashew nut, banana, pineapple, black pepper etc.

There are 53 HH Farmer, 13 are Labour and 16 HH are Gov’t Service.

ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

DPMU team of West Garo Hills visited Bolchugre village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing on 1^st July 2020.

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

1. The village has 86 HH with 482 total populations.

2. The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 7 streams and 9 springs.

3. The village has indigenous tree species such as :- Bolbret, Gambari, Suchar, Mao, Tebrong, Tegatchu, Snal, Mecheng, Chamisi, Bolchubret, Changsim, Aminsep, Bolchim, Churi, Kantap, Agatchi, Golmatra, Agru, Cheeng, Chigambal, Prap, Makanchi, tebil, mengadoti, Gasampe, chambu, soksimareng, Gimbil, angkil, Krenti, Bolong, Sangsim, sisio, Bolchu, Bolsal

4. The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such as Tebrong, Tegatchu, angkil, mengadoti, Gasampe, Chambu, soksimareng, Gimbil

5. Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are Gambare, Bolbret, Suchar, Krenti, Bolong, Sangsim, Siso, Mao, Bolchu, Bolsal

6. The endangered species in Forest (fauna & flora) such as Aminsep, Bolchim

7. Water scarcity during winter season

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan on 8^th July 2020 at Bolchugre Village Dadenggre Block, WGH.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Environment, NRM/GIS and FE. 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.

1. Signing of Documents:

As an acceptance and agreement to the project, every member of the village households had to sign green charter on 1st July 2020 and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

2. Formation of the VNRMC

On 1^st July 2020, 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	Keneng M Marak	M	65	Class 2	President	Farmer	Garo	7628915737
2	Cherry M Marak	F	42	Class 8	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	8787627002
3	Celline M Marak	F	40	Class 10	member	farmer	Garo	8974938360
4	Tadeus A Sangma	M	23	Class 12	Member	Farmer	Garo	8787803546
5	Akber M Marak	M	25	Class 12	Member	Farmer	Garo	7005943310
6	Arclish A Sangma	F	28	Class 12	Member	Farmer	Garo	8837470771
7	Rarat A Sangma	M	39	Class 2	Member	Farmer	Garo	6009399633
8	Merse M Marak	F	48	Class 2	Member	Farmer	Garo	6009861007
	Sillang M Sangma	M	19	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	8732002074
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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	Sillang M Sangma	M			NRM&GIS	Farmer	8732002074
2	Akber M Marak	M	25	12th passed	M&E	Yes	7005943310
3	Arclish A Sangma	F	28	12th passed	SM & KM	Yes	8837470771

Plan Estimate:

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

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Work Status
1.	Water Conservation Dam	Gop Chimik	Completed
2.	Community Nursery	Songgitalgre	Completed
3.	Spring Chamber	Ringjak Chimik-2	Completed
4.	RCC Check Dam	Rawi Dilwang	Completed
5.	Water Conservation Dam	Deching Chiring	Completed
6.	RCC CheckDam	Bolgrim Chiring	Completed
7.	Trenches with Plantation,	Ringjak Chimik	Completed
8.	Plantation	Najing Chiga	Completed
9.	Composting pit	Songgitalgre near nursery	Completed
10.	Spring Chamber with Storage Tank	Juban Songgitcham Chimik	Completed

4. Fund Status

1	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Conservation Dam	Gop Chimik	Elevation: 207m N25.71664° E090.17250°	Rs.3,03,000	Completed

2	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Community Nursery	Songgitalgre	Elevation:189m N25.72218° E090.17822°	Rs.90,000	Completed

3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Ringjak Chimik-2	Elevation 202m N 25.72218° E 090.17493°	Rs.3,13,000	Completed

Before After

4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	RCC Check Dam	Rawidilwang	Elevation 179m N 25.72162° E 090.17999°	Rs.2,73,000	Completed

5	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Conservation Dam	Deching Chiring	Elevation 191m N 25.72603° E 090.18063°	Rs.2,53,000	Completed

Before After

6	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	RCC Check Dam	Bolgrim Chiring	Elevation 207m N 25.27077° E 090.17487°	Rs.2,32,000	Completed

Before After

7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Trenches with Plantation	Ringjak Chimik	Elevation 206m N 25.72122° E 090.17896°	Rs. 81,000	Completed

Before After

8	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	Najing Chiga	Elevation 184m N 25.72089° E 090.18193°	Rs. 96,000	Completed

9	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Composting pit	Songgitalgre near nursery	Elevation 189m N 25.722178° E 90.178509°	Rs.72,000	Completed

Before After

10	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber with Storage Tank	Juban Songgitcham Chimik	Elevation 170m N 25.71962° E 090.18287°	Rs. 4,4,2000	Completed

Before After