Result 6 - More effective extension and environmental education system in place,
and number of villagers participating in conservation issues increased.
| 6.1 |
Extension reaches all villages |
| 6.1.1 |
Training for trainers has been identified as one of the approaches to ensure that the interventions are reaching many farmers
within the time frame. The Project will develop the training programme and embark on training Project staff as well as farmers. Training in areas indicated in activity 5.3.3 and in centres such as indicated in activity
5.3.4 will be given priority to consolidate what started in phase II. |
| 6.1.2 |
The extension schedule will be developed according to the needs in this phase and be ready by September 1999. This will
include increasing the number of pilot villages from the present ten to thirty and how to reach all these villages. |
| 6.1.3 |
Farmer to farmer extension approach will be implemented whereby farmers from the selected pilot villages will be visiting and
learning from each other's experience in farm forestry and conservation issues. Five visits will be implemented, three for farm forestry and two for village forest reserve. At least 50 farmers are expected to
participate by June 2000. |
| 6.1.4 |
Meetings will be conducted to those villages surrounding the forest
reserves, to disseminate conservation
messages to villagers on the importance of protecting forests in the East Usambara Mountains. Special efforts will be made to the newly selected pilot villages both for farm forestry and proposed Village forest reserves
and those under joint forest management under activity 5.1.1 |
| 6.2 |
Extension collaboration improved |
| 6.2.1 |
Collaboration programme with FBD will be prepared to strengthen extension activities by November 1999. The project will
continue to collaborate with the publicity section in the Forest and Beekeeping Division, especially on the using of their video/cinema van for awareness raising campaigns in the project area. Other potential
collaborators are Korogwe and Muheza District Agricultural Extension agents |
| 6.2.2 |
Workshops will be conducted with other relevant institutions NGOs e.g. TFCG and other collaborators at District level. One
workshop will be conducted to see areas of collaboration, especially with existing structure such as Extension departments and those related to conservation and community development in Muheza and Korogwe. |
| 6.2.3 |
One of the reason of conducting a workshop with collaborators is to look for ways of working as a team. In implementation
therefore, two joint Visits to the local communities in the pilot villages will be conducted for the purpose of giving advise and technical support. |
| 6.3 |
Village conservation organisation strengthened |
| 6.3.1-6. 3.3 |
One of the tasks during the villages meeting will be to identify organisations in those villages dealing with conservation and
community development issues. The Project will assist in strengthening and support those existing organisations or environmental committees in villages indicated in activity 5.1.1 and facilitate the establishment of new
environmental committees where none is existing. |
| 6.3.4 |
Together with the villagers, the project staff will prepare guidelines for village environmental committees. This will
include their role and responsibility in their area of operation. |
| 6.4 |
Environmental Education |
| 6.4.1 |
Extension materials like posters, leaflets, calendars and stickers will be prepared. One workshop of the project staff will be
conducted for the designing and preparation of these materials by December 1999. |
| 6.4.2 |
Teachers who are dealing with environmental education in pilot Primary schools will be trained on the issues concerning forest
conservation together with field Project staff. Ten Schools will be selected from the pilot villages to start with. Ten introductory meetings in the selected schools with teacher will be conducted by December 1999.
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| 6.4.3 |
Extension staff will pay visits to the schools in the 30 pilot villages and conduct meeting with students and teachers and
evaluate school tree nurseries and planted trees by November 1999. During this visits training will be given on tree nursery establishment and tending seedlings |
| 6.4.4 |
Efforts and initiatives will be made to establish more school tree nurseries November 1999. A focus in these nurseries will be
on the use of the locally available materials, e.g. bamboo splits and banana fibre for the potted seedlings. |
| 6.4.5 |
The Schools in the 30 villages will be assisted technically to plant trees to ensure all areas surrounding the schools are
enriched with trees by May 2000.. |
| 6.4.6 |
Elders programme in conservation will be reviewed and strengthened. Elders will be used to disseminate conservation messages to
school children. Material to document what is taught will be provided to the Primary Schools. The programme will be expanded from the present five Schools to ten by May 2000. |
| 6.4.7 |
Competition in Schools will be made for the environmental conservation activities, such as raising of tree seedlings and tree
planting. The award will be given to the winners(best performers). The modality for competition will be prepared and disseminated to the Schools by January 2000 |
| 6.5 |
Environmental Conservation syllabus |
| 6.5.1 |
Contacts, consultations and negotiations to the Regional and District Education offices in Tanga will be made to know the
modalities on including environmental education in the pilot Schools by June 2000. |
