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 NaturalResources 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

Ganipara village is situated under the Dalu C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 32 km from the Dalu Block and 40 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 487 with 87 number of household.The village Latitude is 25.32194"North and Longitude 90.16267"East. The community is surrounded by Areca nut and Cashew nut plantation.The total geographical area of the village is around 729Ha with 7.29 Sq. Km

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SOCIAL PROFILE

The Village is about 32Km away from Dalu Block and 42 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is in sumo, 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.

When it comes to use of fuel /LPG /biomass/gas most of the households are using Woodsand 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. All of them are using wood for daily cooking. Regards to social profile, Ganipara village has total no of 87 households with the total population of 487. Out of which are 222 males and 256 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. Ganipara 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 cashew nut, banana, pineapple etc. People came to observe and realize that the hill is gradually losing its soil fertility and water retention properties. All the villagers are farmers and they depend on farming.

ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

DPMU team of West Garo Hills visited Ganipara village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing on 16^th Sept 2020.

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

1. The village has 87 HH with 487 total populations.

2. The village water sources are springs and streams. It has10streams and 6springs.

3. The village has many local tree species such as :-Chram, Bolbret, Tiwek, Bolchu, Kantap, Gambare, Arimu, Bolpru, Siso, Rangi, Bolsil, Boldak, Atipa, Polajak, Makanchi, Bol Tajong, Gimbil, Wakru, Mandal, Tekring, Sinaru, Bolnatra, Balal, Bolgisim, Neem, Jija, Prap

4. The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such asBolbit, Namiaga, Kelwi,

5. Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are Chram, Kilwe, Siso, Gambare, Bolsal, Bolchim, Ajari, Chambu, Chideo, Boldureng, Bolpru, Bolbret

6. Valuable grasses available in the forests are Chram, Kilwe, Siso, Gambare, Bolsal, Bolchim, Ajari, Chambu, Chideo, Boldureng, Bolpru, Bolbret

7. Any vulnerable/ endangered species in Forest (fauna & flora) are Kilwe, Siso, Bolchim, Tiwek, Bolpru, Balgitchak, Myna, Batdo, Dosik, Doreng.

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan at Ganipara Village Dalu Block, WGH on 9th Oct 2020.

The exercises were conducted by the district team of West Garo Hills. TheTeam 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 16th Sept 2020 and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

2.2Formation of the VNRMC

On 19th Sept 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.

2. 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	Tresilachi Marak	F	47	Class 2	President	Farmer	Garo	--
2	Kheobirth D Sangma	M	25	Class 12	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	7005236503
3	LovingstoneCh Marak	M	26	B.A	Book keeper	Farmer	Garo	9366991881
4	Anil Ch Marak	M	27	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	6009866833
5	Fivedin Ch Marak	M	46		Member	Farmer	Garo	--
6	Trillar D Sangma	M	48	Class 8	Member	Farmer	Garo	9366574323
7	Hellinash Ch Marak	F	61	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	6009549912
8	Ledia Ch Marak	F	30	Class 8	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
	Brisina Ch Sangma	F	26	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
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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	Dikseng Ch Marak	M	24	X	M&E	yes	8837437002
2	Dikseng Ch Marak	M	24	X	SM&KM	yes	8787515599
3	Kheobirth D Sangma	M	25	X11	NRM/GIS		7005236503

Village Community Facilitators (VCF)

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 Team.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Status
1	Spring Chamber	Jongdik Chimik	Completed
2	Community Nursery	Chigitchak Chisam	Completed
3	Plantation	Meritchi Bisik	Completed
4	Plantation	Chigitchak	Completed
5	RCC Check Dam	Asim Chimik	Completed
6	Water Reservoir	Rongkusi Chiring	Completed
7	Trenches	Achri chimik	Completed
8	Spring chamber	Wak ka.a chimik	Completed
9	Spring chamber	Achri chimik	Completed
10	Erosion Control Wall	Jongdik chimik	Completed
11	Water Conservation Dam	Chigitchak Bipek Chring	Ongoing
12	Trenches (Additional)	Wak kaa chimik	Completed
13	Trenches (Additional)	Asim Chimik	Completed
14	Dugout pond (Additional)	Wak kaa chisam	Completed
15	Dug out pond (Additional)	Chigitchak chisam	Completed
16	Permanent Community Nursery(Balance fund)	Nokma Gittim	Ongoing

4. Fund Status

1	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Jongdik Chimik	Elevation 68m N 25.31588 E 90.15720	Rs. 2,62,000	Completed

Before After

2	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Community Nursery	Chigitchak Chisam	Elevation 66m N 25.32102 E 90.16775	Rs. 1,02,000	Completed

3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	Meritchi Bisik	Elevation 67m N 25.32601 E 90.16409	Rs. 94,000	Completed

4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	Chigitchak	Elevation 66m N 25.32102 E 90.16775	Rs.1,02,000	Completed

5	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	RCC Water Conservation Dam	Asim Chimik	Elevation 111m N 25.31806 E 090.15762	Rs. 3,95,000	Completed

Before After

6	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Reservoir	Rongkusi Chiring	Elevation 70m N 25.31344 E 090.15202	Rs. 3,10,000	Completed

Before After

7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Trenches	Achri Chimik	Elevation 60m N 25.32181E 090.16086	Rs. 29,000	Completed

Before After

8	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring chamber	Wak ka.a chimik	Elevation 64m N 25.32440 E 090.16075	Rs. 2,10,000	Ongoing

Before After

9	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Achri Chimik	Elevation 57m N 25.32203 E 090.16076	Rs. 2,10,000	Completed

Before After

10	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Erosion Control Wall	Jongdik Chimik	Elevation 55m N 25.31512 E 090.15714	Rs. 1,58,000	Completed

Before After

11	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Conservation Dam	Chigitchak Bipek Chiring	Elevation 55m N 25.31512 E 090.15714	Rs. 2,40,000	Ongoing

Before After

12	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Trenches (Additional)	Wak kaa chimik	Elevation 84m N 25.32475 E 90.1615	Rs.28,000	Completed

Before After

13	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Trenches (Additional)	Asim Chimik	Elevation 122m N 25.31878 E 90.15815	Rs.36,000	Completed

Before After

14	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dugout pond (Additional)	Wak kaa chisam	Elevation 82m N 25.32487 E90.16049	Rs.286,000	Completed

Before After

15	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out pond (Additional)	Chigitchak Chisam	Elevation 55m N 25.31843 E 90.16362	Rs.150,000	Completed

Before After

16	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Permanent Community Nursery	Nokma Gittim	Elevation 115m N 25.31765 E90.15852	Rs.3,00,000	Ongoing

Before After