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

Rimrangpara is one of the villages that falls under Dalu Block in West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is under A’ king Nokma and is surrounded by Gambegre Block towards North, Gasuapara Block towards East, Tura Block towards North, Ziizika Block towards west. It is located 27 KM from Block office Dalu, around 35 kilometres from Tura and approx.360 Kilometres from State capital Shillong.

Tura is the nearest town and kerapara is the nearest local market for the community to buy their weekly/monthly ration. Rimrangpara being one of the biggest villages in area wise with 820.42 ha and it’s degraded with no forest cover as seen in the map below.

SOCIAL PROFILE

Rimrangpara village is the land of Aking Nokma, established in the year 1835. The community inhabiting the village from 1835 till now are Garos with the total population of 518 that is of 90 households. The village is situated 27 km away from the block Headquarter and 35 km from district headquarter Office but there are good number of public transport such as bus and winger plying from village to the block offices and to and fro from Tura to Dalu. There are also people who prefer to travel by their private vehicles as well.

When it comes to use of 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).

In regards to social profile, Rimrangpara village has total no of 90 households with the total population of 518. Out of which are 251males and 267 are females.

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

The community of Rimrangpara village are into farming and cultivation of cash crops. There are around 43.4 ha that is used for agriculture and horticulture purpose. Even though there are many farmers, there are people who are working as primary school teachers and into police force as well.

CLLMP ACTIVITIES

1. Ground Truthing and Sensitization Programme

On the 5th Dec 2018, the district team visited the village for Ground truthing and sensitization programme. During the programme the community were sensitized on the objectives of the project and its activities under the project. During the same day, there was a discussion causes related to the degradation of land and the sources of water supply in the village.

Also there was a brief explanation on the formation of VNRMC, Village facilitators, opening of bank accounts and the preparation of plans and interventions.

There were around 30 participants attended the programme comprising of village elders, headmen, VEC secretary, including women groups, youths CLLMP Assistant Managers - Environment, Social and M&E.

PRA AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

On the 31^st January, 2019, the District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan at Rimrangpara Village, Dalu Block, WGH.

During the exercise the community was being informed that PRA exercise is mainly to understand and locate the natural resources of the village and degraded land to identify and work on the activities. The community had an exercise to draw resource and the social map on the same.

Whereas, during the CNRM plan preparation the community were told to plan the activities for 5 long years and submit the plan it to the DPMU prioritizing the list. In the exercise, village headmen, VNRMCs and Village facilitators joined to complete the task. There were around 30 people participated for the exercise.

Findings/ Observations

No community land, however willing to give the land for intervention

1. They have reserve forest

The main issue of the village are water scarcity and does not have safe drinking water supply. The source of drinking water are streams, wells and irregular PHE pipe

2. Low soil fertility. Most of them plants are cantus , Cashewnut and rubber plantation

3. Habitation of abandon forest – It was a sacred grove however they do not maintain

   1. Signing of Documents

After a month of sensitization programme, on the 5th January 2019 the VNRMC members of Rimrangpara Village signed all the documents such as EOI, VGA and CGC and have agreed to abide the norms of the project as per the documents. They signed in front of the village community and around 15 of them were present.

2. Formation of the VNRMC

On the same day i.e. 5^th January, 2019, the community had a meeting to select VNRMC members, Executive members, Village facilitators and purchase committee who are the representatives from VEC, SHG and other village functionaries in front of the DPMU staffs.

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	Rajen D Marak	M	42	HSSLC	Chairman	Farmer	Garo	8787833426
2	Edhin Ch Momin	F	24	Class 10	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	8414844085
3	Christberth D Sangma	M	27	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
4	Baliston D Sangma	M	36	Class 7	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
5	Metalson D Marak	M	38	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	9366374348
6	Awith D Marak	M	33	Class 6	Member	Farmer	Garo	9366940538
7	Munira D Marak	F	27	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	9366817574
8	Singmera D Marak	F	21	Class 9	Member	Farmer	Garo	6300978240
	Chingkera D Marak	F	22	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	-

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	Domera Ch Sangma	F	21	Class 9	NRM&GIS	yes	9366949781
2	Domera Ch Sangma	F	21	Class 9	M&E	yes	9366949781
3	Naitina Ch Momin	F	25	Class 9	SM&KM	yes	8837042403

Plan Estimate:

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

3. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Work Status
1.	Community Nursery	Roadside	Completed
2.	18 Days Composting	Roadside Near Nursery	Completed
3.	Spring Chamber with Contour	Wakru	Completed
4.	Spring Chamber with Storage Tank	Matia	Completed
5.	Spring Chamber with Gully plug and recharge contour	Bakla	Completed
6.	Spring Chamber with Filter Tank	Walseng Gittim	Completed
7.	Jalkund	Roadside near Nursery	Completed
8.	Water Reservoir	Okel Chiring	Completed
9.	Spring chamber with storage tank and trenches	Bakla-2	Completed
10.	RCC Check Dam	Dambilonga Chiring	Completed
11.	Plantation	Dagi Lake	Completed
12.	Dug out Pond	Darachiringgre	Completed
13.	Spring Chamber (Additional)	Mite Chikong
14.	Dug out pond (Additional)	Rimrangpara B	On-going
15.	Permanent Community Nursery(Balance fund)	Rajen Compound	Completed

4. Fund Status

1	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Community Nursery	Roadside	Elevation 56m N 25.33276 E 090.28415	Rs.1,49,000	Completed

2	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	18 Days Composting	Roadside Near Nursery	Elevation 56m N 25.33276 E 090.28415	Rs.33,000	Completed

3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber with Contour	Wakru	Elevation 36m N 25.32733° E 090.28187°	Rs.1,23,290	Completed

4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber with Storage Tank	Matia	Elevation 52m N 25.33440° E 090.28326°	Rs1,18,300	Completed

5	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber with Gully plug and recharge contour	Bakla	Elevation 43m N 25.33167 E 090.28895	Rs.1,16,460	Completed

6	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber with Filter Tank	Walseng Gittim	Elevation 46m N 25.33206 E 090.28339	Rs1,97,500	Completed

7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Jalkund	Roadside near Nursery	Elevation 56m N 25.33276 E 090.28415	Rs.28,000	Completed

8	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Reservoir	Okel Chiring	Elevation 40m N 25.32697 E 090.27998	Rs.4,15,000	Completed

9	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring chamber with storage tank and trenches	Bakla-2	Elevation 49m N 25.33259 E 090.28893	Rs.2,42,000	Completed

10	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	RCC Check Dam	Dambilongga Chiring	Elevation 33m N 25.32079 E 090.28424	Rs.4,92,000	Completed

11	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	Dagi Lake	Elevation 99m N 25.33347 E 090.28327	Rs.1,25,000	Completed

12	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out Pond	Darachiringgre	Elevation 91m N 25.32916 E 90.28396	Rs.1,15,450	Completed

13	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber (Additional)	Mite Chikong	Elevation 44m N 25.33165 E 90.28270	Rs.350,000	On-going

14	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out pond (Additional)	Rimrangpara B	Elevation 80m N 25.33291 E 90.27622	Rs.150,000	On-going

15	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Rajen Compound	Elevation 92m N 25.32909 E 90.28681	Rs.300,000	Completed