Sustainable Land Management Project, (SLMP) a unit under the Participatory Integrated Watershed Management Project (PIWAMP), organized a six days training of trainers on Sustainable Land Management for sixty multi-level partner stakeholder institutions.
SLMP project seeks to address interlinked
problems of rural poverty, food insecurity and land degradation.
After the training, trained participants
are expected to conduct a step-down training for extension workers and farmers
in their respective regions.
Participants were divided into two groups-participants
from Western Gambia-West Coast, North Bank and Lower River Region respectively
were group one and Easter Gambia comprises participants from Upper River, and
Central River North and South were group two.
The training was held at the Agricultural
Rural Farmers’ Training Centre at Jenoi in Lower River Region from 11-13 April
for Western Gambia, and 14-16 April, 2012 for Eastern Gambia participants
respectively.
Speaking at the official opening of the
training, Mr. Falalo Touray, director of Agriculture, Lower River Region (LRR)
emphasized on the importance of the training saying that capacity building is
key element in any project.
He added that the SLMP is a new component
of PIWAMP and called on participants to take the training seriously and make
best use of the gained knowledge.
He thanked the sponsors and the
government of The Gambia for not only providing funds but also creating the
enabling environment for project to be implemented in the country.
“This project (SLPM) is a new component
of PIWAM, we need make it better in our country so as for the project to be
replicated in other regions as it is a pilot project in the Gambia,” Mr. Touray
stated.
He
advised participants to take the project as theirs and work towards the success
of the pilot project.
Mr. Touray told trainers to take the
project seriously adding that “if we succeed, we do well for ourselves but if
we fail, that’s means, we failed other countries that should benefit from the
project after The Gambia.”
Director Touray said SLMP is a national
project and should be seen by the trainers as a national project and works
towards the accomplishment of the project.
He expressed his hope that the project will be successfully implemented
and thanked the participants for their
positive turn-out , which he said demonstrates their commitments and interest.
He told SLMP coordinating committee to
form village committees where village committees do not exist but advised them
not to duplicate their work.
Giving an overview of the project, Mr. Kebba
S. Manka national coordinator PIWAMP- SLMP said the project is an additional
project that is managed by PIWAMP.
He added that the main outputs of the
project include operational at national and regional level saying that Soil and
Land Management (SLM) platforms comprising a multi-level partnership of
stakeholders institutions promoting SLM.
He noted that the project priority
beneficiaries are the smallholders that are dependent on traditional upland
crops and lowland rice cultivation as their main source of livelihood.
In the lowland, he said the primary
target group will be women, whereas, for the upland, the focus is on
conservation farming and men, women and youths will be the target
beneficiaries.
The project, he went on is expected to realize
major environmental and socio-economic benefits through its investments in SLM
interventions aimed at restoring, sustaining and enhancing the protective and
productive functions of the lowland and upland ecosystem, he explained.
The project, he continued, is a Global
Environmental Facility (GEF) project through African Development Bank to PIWAMP
for execution in the country.
According to Manka, the lowland and
upland sustainable crop, livestock, forestry and eco-tourism activities will be
supported and are expected to result in a significant increase in the returns
from such livelihood activities impact on food security at various levels,
while contributing to the alleviation of rural poverty.
The beneficiary communities, he said will
take the lead in the participatory planning activities, thus ensuring a demand
driven local planning process.
The SLMP, he added was designed in
recognition of the fact that the current extent of land degradation in The
Gambia has both local and global environmental consequences.
According to Manka, the SLMP is also
aimed at ensuring that PIWAMP activities contribute to the realization of
optional global environmental benefits, including reducing land degradation,
conserving biodiversity and improving the adaptive response to climate change.
“SLMP is a project that we have to take
seriously and take it as ours” said Dr. Saikou Sanyang Director of Agriculture
North Bank Region (NBR).
According to Dr. Sanyang, the training
programme is to equip trainers with knowledge for them to use during their work
in the communities. He advised participants to share the gained information
during the training to the beneficiaries.
Dr. Sanyang said he is also hopeful that
the project will be successfully implemented in the country noting that the project
has come up with difference approach- from the grass-root level to top level
which he added is a very good approach.
At the end of the project, Dr. Sanyang
told participants that they are going be gauge base on our performance and
called on them to the project as a national project.
The following topics were discussed on
day one; Concept of sustainable Land Management, Land Use/Land Sustainability
Classification, Integrated Watershed Management and Conservation, Role of Soil
and Water Conservation in Sustainability Land Management, Basic Soil Survey and
Overviews of Gambian Soils, Principles of Agricultural Extension.
Day two the following topics with goes with the practical, Crop Land
Management/ Grazing Capacity, Agro-forestry, Watershed Factors (climate)
Affecting Watershed Development, Overview of Causes and Consequences of
Watershed Deterioration, Community Mobilization, PRA, Concept, Tools and
Participatory Watershed Mapping, Management and Plans, Monitoring and
Evaluation in SLM, and Role of Extension in Agricultural project implement.
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