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

Dopogre village is situated under the Gambegre C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 15 km from the Gambegre Block and 44 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 423 with 76 number of household. The village Latitude is 25.396743 "North and Longitude 90.063415 E "East. The community is surrounded by Areca nut and Cashew nut plantation. The total geographical area of the village is around 373.54 Ha with 3.7354 sq.Km.

SOCIAL PROFILE

The Village is about 11 Km away from Gambegre Block and 30 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is Pick up, 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.

When it comes to use of 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). Whereas 60 HH used wood and 15 HH used LPG in the community. The total population of the, Dopogre village has total no of 188 households with the total population of 423. Out of which are 214 males and 209 are females.

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

The village is far from the Tura town and is under developing village. Dopogre village are still into farming which includes agriculture and multi cropping. Unlike any other village’s Areca nut is always one of the most grown cash crops followed by Black pepper. People came to observe and realize that the hill is gradually losing its soil fertility and water retention properties .The occupations of the community are farmers 45 and Labour 30 and 1 Govt service.

ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

DPMU team of West Garo Hills visited Dopogre village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing on 25^th Feb 2020

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

1. The village has 76 HH with 423 total populations.

2. The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 6 streams and 3 springs.

3. The village has many local tree species such as, Bolbret, Boldak, Gamabre, Siso, Makanchi, Kilwe, Bolchu, Bolpru, Chidao, Prap, Bolbit, Bolsrem, Chambu, Rangi, Bolsil, Sengsu, Kasi, Chusitim, Sokchon, Gimbil, Bolnasin, Bolsal

4. The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such as Bolnasin, Bolsil, Gimbil,

5. Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are Kilwe, Bolbret, Siso, Gambare, Bolsal

6. Fodder Species/ Valuable grasses in forests are Matchaduri, Mebitchi, sarat, Mesenachil

7. Any vulnerable/ endangered species in Forest (fauna & flora) ar Kilwe, Rangi, Kasi.

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan at Dopogre Village Gambegre Block, WGH on 1^st June 2020.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Environment and Field Engineer. 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.

2.1 Signing of Documents:

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

2.2 Formation of the VNRMC

On, 25^th Feb 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	Mandayline Sangma	F	24	Class 10	President	Farmer	Garo	9366235014
2	Clayverd D Marak	M	31	BA	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	6009305530
3	Churchil Marak	M	32	Primary	Book keeper	Farmer	Garo	9366878230
4	Krestip Marak	M	33	Class 8	Member	Farmer	Garo	9366970267
5	Gretwin Marak	M	35	Class 8	Member	Farmer	Garo	9366557392
6	Griase Ch Marak	M	28	Class 8	Member	Farmer	Garo	8787517828
7	Kusin Sangma	F	26	Class 8	Member	Farmer	Garo
8	Peritha Sangma	F	30	Primarty	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
	Jenitha Sangma	F	29	Primarty	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
9

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	Jessi Joseph Sangma	M	30	XII	M&E	Yes,	8787525539
2	Milling D Marak	M	35	X	SM/KM	Yes, 17th August,2020	9366924398
3	Balseng Marak	M	25	X	NRM/GIS	Yes, 17th August,2020	8837438229

Plan Estimate:

The DPMU team of WGH made an inspection to the proposed intervention sites soon after the CNRM plan preparation gets over along with the district Field Engineer, Ms Nimrica Marak.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Status
1	Construction of CC Check Dam	Bolchim Stream	Completed
2	Community Nursery	Dusa Chisam	Completed
3	Spring Chamber	Tematchu bisik -1	Completed
4	Spring Chamber	Tematchu bisik -2	Completed
5	Spring Chamber	Tematchu bisik -3	Completed
6	Horticulture	Chidimdim	Completed
7	Water Conservation Dam with Trenches and Plantation,	Ronji chimik	Completed
8	Water Conservation Dam	Chigitchak Chimik	Completed
9	Horticulture	Dadua	Completed
10	Composting Pit	Dusa Chisam	Ongoing
11	Dug out pond(Additional)	Dadua bisik	Ongoing
12	RCC Check dam(Additional)	Dadua bisik	Ongoing

4. Fund Status

1.	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Construction of CC Check Dam	Bolchim Stream	Elevation: 95.3m N25.396068° E090.065724°	Rs 322,300	Completed

2	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Community Nursery	Dusa Chisam	Elevation: 77.24m N 25.401682° E 090.06528°	Rs. 79,000.00	Completed

3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Tematchu bisik -1	N 25.39563 E 090.06020	Rs.148,000	Completed

4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Tematchu bisik -2	N 25.397358 E 090.061534	Rs.148,000	Completed

5	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Tematchu bisik -3	N 25.398265 E 090.060885	Rs.148,000	Completed

6	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Horticulture	Chidimdim	N 25.394755 E 90.059178	Rs.130,000	Completed

7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Conservation Dam with Trenches and Plantation,	Ronji chimik	N 25.39761 E 090.06762	Rs 493000	Completed

8	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Conservation Dam	Chigitchak Chimik	N 25.39742 E 090.06062	Rs.460000	Completed

9	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Horticulture	Dadua	N 25.40304 E 090.06493	Rs 154700	Completed

10	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Composting Pit	Dusa Chisam	N 25.401129 E 090.059286	Rs 72000	Ongoing

11	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dugout pond	Dadua bisik	N 25.40271 E 90.06573	Rs 150,000	Ongoing

12	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	RCC Check Dam	Dadua bisik	N 25.40242 E 90.06694	Rs 350,000	Ongoing

13	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Permanent community Nursery (Excess fund)	Gimbilgri Gittim	108m N25.39889 E90.06122		Ongoing