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

Upper Bamonpara village is situated under the Dalu C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 5 km from the Dalu Block and 47 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 830 with 122 number of households.

The village can be reach through transportation buses, with a very limited access to its time to ply. However, these days, many of the community travel to and fro in their private vehicles as well as in their motor bikes.

SOCIAL PROFILE

The Village is about 5 Km away from Dalu Block and 47 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is in Auto rickshaw transport, 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).

In regards to social profile, Upper Bamonpara village has total no of 122 households with the total population of 830. Out of which are 376 males and 454 are females.

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

Upper Bamonpara Village is still lot to catch up even though it is one of the villages nearest to the Tura town area. Upper Bamonpara village are still into farming which includes agriculture and multi cropping. Unlike any other village’s Arecanut is always one of the most grown cash crops followed by black pepper, banana, pineapple etc. People came to observe and realize that the hill is gradually losing its soil fertility and water retention properties. There are 83 HH farmers, 19 HH Business and 20 HH are Gov’t Service.

ACTIVITIES

1. GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

DPMU team of West Garo Hills visited Upper Bamonpara village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing on 10^th September 2020.

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

1. The village has 122 HH with 830 total populations.

2. The village has Community Forest.

3. The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 5 streams and 11 spring

4. The village has many local tree species such as :- Prap, Tewek, Makanchi, Kantap, Churi, Bolchiring, Bolbret, Pakkram, Jiga, Chram, Aminsep, Golmatra, Bolbit, Kilwe, Bolpu, Sisoo, Obak, Bolchu, Agtachi, Sumitcheng, Pakkram, Bolsal, Jigambal, Tebrong, Kring , Dogrikme, Kimdotchi, Tebrong, Boldukaki, Ambiletong, Ambare,Bolsrem, Boldak, Megong, Chambu, Bolajak, Tebil.

5. The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such as Kring, Dogrikme, Kimdotchi, Tebrong, Boldukaki, Ambiletong, Ambare, Bolbanji, Bolsrem.

6. Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests avaiable in the village forest are - Bolsal, Tebrong, Tegatchu, Jiga, Kilwe, Bolchu, siso, Obak, Sengsu, Boldak, chambu.

7. The endangered species in Forest (fauna & flora) such as Prap, Tewek, Kilwe, Bolchiring, Agatchi, Bolajak, Tebil.

2. PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan on 23rd September 2020 at Upper Bamonpara Village Dalu Block, WGH.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Social, Environment, M&E. 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 September 2020 and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

2. Formation of the VNRMC

On 10^th September 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	Yubson Marak	M	45	Class 8	Chairman	Farmer	Garo	7896791898
2	Belitha M Marak	F	32	Class 9	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	9378050167
3	Roberth D Sangma	M	31	Class 10	Book Keeper	Facilitator	Garo	7005239713
4	Masbina M Marak	F	25	Class 12	Member	Farmer	Garo	7005101996
5	Sengtera M Marak	F	27	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	9366892014
6	Cellina M Marak	F	48	BA	Member	Teacher	Garo	7005565988
7	Salchira M Marak	F	30	Class 12	Member	Farmer	Garo	9378108324
8	Benjith M Marak	M	27	Class 5	Member	Farmer	Garo	9366867911
9	Marbin Sangma	M	40	Class 6	Member	Farmer	Garo	9378047201

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	Blenbirth M Marak	M	22	Class 10	SM & KM	Yes	6009269693
2	Rahim J Sangma	M	22	Class 10	NRM & GIS	Yes	8787809385
3	Obadiah M Sangma	M	26	Class 12	M& E	Yes	9863009322

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.	Spring Chamber	School nok chimik	Completed
2.	Community Nursery	Sona Chisam	Completed
3.	Plantation	Dekra A’bri	Completed
4.	Spring Chamber	Gilja Nok Chimik	Completed
5.	Water Reservoir	Sona Chiring	Completed
6.	Dug Out Pond	Noksik Gittim	Completed
7.	Dug Out Pond	Erila Gittim	Completed
8.	Plantation	Erila Gittim	Completed
9.	Spring Chamber with Plantation	Rikkim Chimik	Completed
10.	Trenches with Plantation	School Nok Chimik	Completed
11.	Composting Pit	Erilla Gittim	Completed
12.	Spring Chamber with Trenches and Plantation	Salebina Chimik	Completed
13.	Spring Chamber (Additional)	Rujilla Chimik	Completed
14.	Spring Chamber (Additional)	Binen Chimik	Completed
15.	Permanent Community Nursery(Balance fund)	Erila Gittim	Ongoing

4. Fund Status

1	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	School Nok Chimik	Elevation 38m N 25.23980 E 090.23588	Rs.2,89,000	Completed

2	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Community Nursery	Sona Chisam	Elevation 31m N 25.23957 E 090.23595	Rs.1,11,000	Completed

3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Pantation	Dekra Abri	Elevation 68m N 25.23221E 090.23479	Rs.1,25,000	Completed

4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber	Gilja Nok Chimik	Elevation 26m N 25.23641 E 090.23250	Rs.2,48,000	Completed

5	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Water Reservoir	Sona Chiring	Elevation 51m N 25.24405 E 090.23257	Rs.4,17,000	Completed

Before After

6	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug Out Pond	Noksik Gittim	Elevation 49m N 25.24113 E 090.23791	Rs. 1,42,000	Completed

Before After

7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Dug out pond	Erila Gittim	Elevation 28m N 25.23558 E 090.23075	Rs. 1,70,000	Completed

Before After

8	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	Erila Gittim	Elevation 30m N 25.23559 E 090.23058	Rs. 23,000	Completed

Before After

9	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber with Plantation	Rikkim Chimik	Elevation 27m N 25.23480 E 090.23068	Rs. 2,65,000	Completed

10	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Trenches with Plantation	School Nok Chimik	Elevation 37m N 25.23954 E 090.23558	Rs. 29,000	Completed

Before After

11	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Composting Pit	Erilla Gittim	Elevation 30m N 25.23921E 090.23598	Rs. 49,000	Completed

Before After

12	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber with Trenches and Plantation	Salebina Chimik	Elevation 37m N 25.23673 E 090.22770	Rs. 2,87,000	Completed

13	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber (Additional)	Rujilla Chimik	Elevation 26m N 25.24093 E 90.23802	Rs.254,000	Completed

Before After

14	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Spring Chamber (Additional)	Binen Chimik	Elevation 40m N 25.24325 E 90.24039	Rs.246,000	Completed

Before After

15	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Erila Gittim	Elevation 91m N 25.23569 E 90.23115	Rs.3,00,000	Ongoing