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

Dollonggre village is situated under the Rongram C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 20 km from the Rongram Block and 30km 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 25.71656°North and Longitude 090.35627°East.

The total geographical area of the village is around 1013.94Ha with 1.01394sq.Km.

SOCIAL PROFILE

The Village is about 20 km away from Rongram Block and 30 km away from district headquarters Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is in Bus and private vehicle. 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 Woods and very less access to LPG. The community has few facilities such as education, transportation and road. The village is under Head of village (Nokma). About 141 households still uses woods for cooking whereas about 30 households use LPG.

Dollonggre village has total no of 171 households with the total population of 940. Out of which are 449 male and 491 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 Dollonggre village is farming which includes agriculture and multi cropping. Areca nut is always one of the most grown cash crops followed by pineapple, banana, black pepper etc. There are 128 HH Farmer, 35 are HH Labour and 8 HH are Service.

ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

DPMU team of West Garo Hills visited Dollonggre village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing on 5^th September 2019.

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

1. The village has 171 HH with 940 total populations.

2. The village has community forest.

3. The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 5 streams and 9 springs.

4. The village has indigenous tree species such as :-Duabangagrandi flora (Bolchim), Father tree (Bolkasin), Bolchu , Jackfruit, Mango, Bolbret, Siso, Gamar

5. The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such Meghalaya budu, Mebitchi, Donggam

6. Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are Bolbret, Siso, Gamar, Bolchu, Jackfruit, Mango

7. The village has Fodder Species/Valuable Grasses available in the forest such as Vetiver grass, Pangsil, Broom grass, Wakme, Samskal, Chongira, Arurak, Mekridonok, Matchaduri, Pasim, Karika, Gominjak.

8. The springs which are present in village needs rejuvenate.

9. Land Degradation

10. Scarcity of drinking water

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan on 10^th January 2019at Dollonggre Village Rongram Block, WGH.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Environment. 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 on10th January 2019and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

2. Formation of the VNRMC

On 10^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	Rakseng Sangma	M	28	Class X	Chairman	Farmer	Garo	6009373522
2	Ganchi T Sangma	F	21	9th passsed	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	9863500566
3	Nomilla Sangma	F	20	9th passed	Member	Farmer	Garo	6009920986
4	George Marak	M	27	9th passed	Member	Farmer	Garo	8837311630
5	Chiram A Sangma	M	32	9th passed	Member	farmer	garo	6009133482
6	Lakme Marak	F	28	10th passed	Member	farmer	garo	6009858077
7	Jebing Marak	M	45	primary	Member	farmer	garo	6009397219
8	Mina A Sangma	F	35	primary	Member	farmer	garo	6002444390
	Onsilla A Sangma	F	26	primary	Member	farmer	garo	7005746579
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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					SM/KM
2	Sengran A Sangma	M	29	9th passed	M&E	Yes	7005255879
3	Edward D Sangma	M	26		NRM		6009741887

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	Apalgre	Completed
2.	18 Days Hot Composting Unit	Apalgre, near nursery	Completed
3	Dam with Storage Tank	Bibrot Chimik	Completed
4	RCC Check Dam	Garang Chiring	Completed
5	Plantation	Chajeng Bisik	Completed
6	Dug out pond	Apalgre	Completed
7	Gabion Check Dam	Dodilong Chiring	Ongoing
8	Water Conservation Dam	Pagrang Chiring	Ongoing
9	Water Reservoir	Mirama Chiring	Ongoing
10	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Apalgre

4. Fund Status

1	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Community Nursery	Apalgre	Elevation: 370m N25.71542 E090.35326	Rs. 1,23,000	Completed

2	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	18 Days Hot Composting Unit	Apalgre, near nursery	Elevation: 370m N25.71542 E090.35326	Rs.33,000	Completed

3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dam with Storage Tank	Bibrot Chimik	Elevation 372m N 25.71772 E 090.35464	Rs. 3,20,000	Completed

4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	RCC Water Reservoir	Garang Chiring	Elevation 356m N 25.72258 E 090.35278	Rs.3,63,000	Completed

Before After

5	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	Chajeng Bisik	Elevation 433m N 25.71660 E 90.35431	Rs. 73,000	Completed

Before After

6	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out pond	Apalgre	Elevation 352m N 25.71700 E 090.34938	Rs. 1,10,000	Completed

7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Gabion Check Dam	Dodilong Chiring	Elevation 398m N 25.71332 E 090.35549	Rs. 1,50,000	Completed

8	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Conservation Dam	Pagrang Chiring	Elevation 426m N 25.71264 E 090.35828	Rs. 3,00,000	Completed

9	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Reservoir	Mirama Chiring	Elevation 407m N 25.71388 E 090.36409	Rs. 3,63,000	Completed

10	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Apalgre	Elevation	Rs.3,00,000	Completed