Actions that link smallholders with markets and financial services
World Vision
Beekeeping as a complimentary value chain in recovering landscapes
World Vision
World Vision
Honey sales from beekeeping
World Vision

Value chain development and integrated market systems development were essential tools to link environmental restoration with economic resilience. Farmers were mobilized and organized into groups, associations and cooperatives; groups organized around selected value chains, with groups enabled to sign contracts and share resources and capacities. Improved bargaining was made possible due to the confidence in producing a harvest, thanks to sufficient water.

  • Sufficient water led farmers to have confidence to engage with markets and with financial services.
  • Organizational development was needed to assist in groups as they matured and faced new problems.
  • Multi-stakeholder platforms were formed around certain value chains to bring all players together and resolve market bottlenecks. Farmers, suppliers and buyers often all benefited from these discussions.

Leadership development is critical in landscape restoration. Similarly, governance and oversight or accountability mechanisms (such as via government bodies) also are essential in smooth handling of potential problems along the way. 

Inception phase
Implementation
Monitoring
Subnational
Actions that boost on-farm productivity through relevant training to enhance capacities
World Vision
Savings groups receiving coaching during their monthly meeting
World Vision

The technical capacities of smallholder farmers need to be strengthened in ways that are suitable to their situation and of relevance to their context. DryDev did this by focusing on skills needed to improve productivity in dryland environments, such as climate-smart agriculture, on-farm water-harvesting, and small-scale irrigation.

 

Similarly, newly formed groups need capacity development in governance, organization and management skills, problem-solving, and coaching on how to best link with external players and government actors.

  • Alignment with government priorities proved to be an strong enabling factor in provision of capacity training.
  • Matching smallholder farmers needs with training was essential.

Community should be able to select what they would like training in, while options may also be presented. Training needs to be practical and relevant to the local context. Local government counterparts may be unaware of national government policies, and themselves may be in need of refresher training on current legislation and updated sector strategies.

Inception phase
Implementation
Subnational
World Vision
East and South Africa
Drylands Development Programme (DryDev): Building resilient communities in dryland areas of Ethiopia through integrated landscape restoration
Rob
Kelly
Actions that conserve and protect natural assets
Actions that boost on-farm productivity through relevant training to enhance capacities
Actions that link smallholders with markets and financial services
World Vision
East and South Africa
Drylands Development Programme (DryDev): Building resilient communities in dryland areas of Ethiopia through integrated landscape restoration
Rob
Kelly
Actions that conserve and protect natural assets
Actions that boost on-farm productivity through relevant training to enhance capacities
Actions that link smallholders with markets and financial services
World Vision
East and South Africa
Drylands Development Programme (DryDev): Building resilient communities in dryland areas of Ethiopia through integrated landscape restoration
Rob
Kelly
Actions that conserve and protect natural assets
Actions that boost on-farm productivity through relevant training to enhance capacities
Actions that link smallholders with markets and financial services
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda

These corridor forests are disappearing quickly and if these findings are not acted upon soon there will be little corridor forest left to conserve and most of these species will become extinct in this region. There is a need for the Ministry of Water, Energy and the Environment, the District Environmental offices and the National Forest Authority to move ahead quickly with providing economic and financial incentives to enable these corridor forests to receive funding as soon as they can to offset the current incentives to destroy the forest for agriculture. 

  • Presence of Kihaimira Central Forest Reserve as core area
  • Local support for chimpanzee conservation
  • Great Potential for agro-ecotourism
  • Great potential for nature based enterprises eg. bee keeping
  • Conducive government policies

A corridor forests east of Lake Albert are rich in biodiversity, they contain many of the species that may require connectivity to remain viable in the larger forest blocks, and they are likely to be playing a functional role in terms of connecting meta-populations of these species. There is a need to find incentives for land owners who have forest on their land in the corridors to conserve these forests in order to maintain these functional roles.

Planning phase
Local
Subnational
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda

Engagement of 500 private forest owners to set aside 6000 hectares for conservation of chimpanzee corridors

  • Local support for chimpanzee conservation
  • Great Potential for agro-ecotourism
  • Great potential for nature based enterprises eg. bee keeping
  • Conducive government policies

These corridor forests are disappearing quickly, however, and if these findings are not acted upon soon there will be little corridor forest left to conserve and most of these species will become extinct in this region. There is for Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy to provide economic incentives to land owners to enable these corridor forests to  offset the current incentives to destroy the forest for agriculture. 

Implementation
Monitoring
Documentation and dissemination of results
Local
Subnational
Simon Akwetaireho
East and South Africa
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda
Simon
Akwetaireho
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda
Simon Akwetaireho
East and South Africa
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda
Simon
Akwetaireho
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda
Simon Akwetaireho
East and South Africa
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda
Simon
Akwetaireho
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda
Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda
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