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

Rebugre village is situated under the Dadenggre C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 5 km from the Dadenggre Block and 61km 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 25.75360°North and Longitude 090.19724°East.

The total geographical area of the village is around 607.69 Ha with 6.0769sq.Km.

SOCIAL PROFILE

The Village is about 5Km away from Dadenggre Block and 61 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is in 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.

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, safe drinking water supply, road and access to medical facilities. The village is under Head of village (Nokma). About 100 households still uses woods for cooking whereas about 2 households use LPG.

Rebugre village has total no of 102 households with the total population of 476. Out of which are 242 males and 234 are females.

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

Agriculture is the main source of the village. Rebugre village are still into 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 102 HH Farmer.

ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

DPMU team of West Garo Hills visited Rebugre village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing on 3^rd July 2020.

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

1. The village has102 HH with 476 total populations.

2. The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 5 streams and 8 springs.

3. The village has indigenous tree species such as :-Tebrong, Tegatchu, Sakap, Bolchu, Aminsep, Bolcchim, Bolbret, Prap, Soksimareng, Gambare, Chigambal, Champal, Sirore, Gimbil, Achri, Bandikgiri, Bolbok, Rengok, Gasampe, ambare, Tekra, Tepatang, siso

4. The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such as Tebrong, Tegatchu, Letchu, Gasampe, Komperam, Komila, Amabare, tekra, tepatang, soksimareng, tekreng, Darichek, angkil

5. Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are Gambare, sampal, bolbret, bolchim, agajari, siso

6. The village has Fodder/Valuable grass available such as Ampang, Mesenachil, Samskal, Samchachi

7. Water scarcity during winter season.

8. Land Degradation

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan on 10^th July 2020 at Rebugre Village Dadenggre Block, WGH.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Environment, GIS 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.

1. Signing of Documents:

As an acceptance and agreement to the project, every member of the village households had to sign green charter on 10^th July 2020 and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

2. Formation of the VNRMC

On 10^thJuly 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	Jetden Marak	M	40	primary	Chariman	farmer	Garo	9366399300
2	Satilla marak	F	28	X	Secretary	farmer	Garo	__
3	Denjilla Marak	f			member	farmer	Garo
4	Solmith Marak	M	31	X	member	farmer	Garo	6009163366
5	Diwen Sangma	M	29	primary	member	farmer	Garo	6009087982
6	Jemusa sangma	F			member	farmer	Garo
7	Jenesh marak	F			member	farmer	Garo
8	Sengsram Sangma	M			member	farmer	Garo
	Natson sangma	M			member	farmer	Garo	9366871752
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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	Shri Sengran Sangma	M			NRM/GIS		6009357367
2	Shri Tenggat M Sangma	M	28	Class 10	SM/KM	Yes	9863094265
3	Shri Hillon Ch Marak	M	33	Class 9	M&E	Yes	9366152695

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.	RCC Check Dam	Chinakaltok Chiring	Completed
2.	Community Nursery	Rongganggap Gittim	Completed
3.	Plantation	LP School Compound	Completed
4.	PCC Water Conservation Dam (2-Units)	Rongmeram	Completed
5.	Spring Chamber	Chinakaltok Chimik	Completed
6.	Spring Chamber	Ronggrim Chimik	Completed
7.	RCC Check Dam	Rongganggap Chiring	Completed
8.	Dug out Pond	Banding Chiring	Completed
9.	Composting pit	Rongganggap Gittim, Near Nursery	Completed
10.	Water Conservation Dam (Additional)	Songgitcham Chimik	Completed
11.	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Chakrang Chisam

4. Fund Status

1	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	RCC Check Dam	ChinakaltokChiring	Elevation 140m N 25.75653 E 090.19569	Rs.4,57,500	Completed

2	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Community Nursery	Rongganggap Gittim	Elevation 178m N25.747904 E090.190321	Rs.1,00,000	Completed

3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	LP School Compound	Elevation: 219m N25.75385° E090.19763°	Rs.46,000	Completed

Before After

4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	PCC Water Conservation Dam (2-Units)	Rongmeram	Elevation 192m N 25.74868° E 090.19168°	Rs.4,89,000	Completed

5	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Chinakaltok Chimik	Elevation 156m N 25.75616 E 090.19630	Rs. 2,20,000	Completed

6	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Ronggrim Chimik	Elevation 219m N 25.754268 E 090.19004	Rs. 2,35,500	Completed

7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	RCC Check Dam	Rongganggap Chiring	Elevation 203m N 25.74768 E 090.18960	Rs.4,20,000	Completed

Before After

8	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out Pond	Banding Chiring	Elevation 182m N 25.756519° E 090.202256°	Rs. 1,15,000	Completed

Before After

9	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Composting pit	Rongganggap Gittim, Near Nursery	Elevation 180m N 25.747746° E 090.190330°	Rs. 72,000	Completed

Before After

10	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Conservation Dam (Additional)	Songgitcham Chimik	Elevation 189m N 25.75604 E 90.19674	Rs.500,000	Completed

Before After

11	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Chakrang Chisam	Elevation 169m N25.74456 E90.1935	Rs.3,00,000