📋 Tender Overview
Country:Ghana
Area Of Work:Biodiversity
Grant Amount:US$ 30,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:US$ 5,000.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:US$ 12,000.00
Project Number:GHA/COMDEKS-4/2024/03
Status:Currently under execution
The Primary objective of this project is to contribute to the resilience of Weto as a socio-ecological landscape through active participation of communities in the sustainable management and utilization of biodiversity for increased production and wealth creation. This will be done through the promotion of medicinal plant gardens and cultivation as tools for biodiversity conservation and livelihood enhancement in twelve (12) communities from two(2) traditional areas CRMCs (Holuta and Kpoeta) within the Zio-Tordzie CREMA.
Project results:
Project Result 1: 30 herbalists in Zio-Tordzie CREMA acquired improved knowledge on conservation, sustainable harvesting, and cultivation of medicinal plants from the wild;
Project Result 2: A total of 5.0ha of medicinal plant gardens well established by 2 CRMCs in the Zio-Tordzie CREMA and cultivation of 10 acres by 10 community members including herbalist;
Project Result 3: Certified medicinal plant value chaindeveloped and operational under effective quality control and management;
Project Result 4: One (1) community processing facility for medicinal plants established and managed in Zio-Tordzie CREMA.
The project implementation experiences, lessons, processes and results would be documented and shared through participatory monitoring and review meetings.
Project Outputs and Activities
Project Result 1: 30 herbalists in Zio-Tordzie CREMA acquired improved knowledge on conservation, sustainable harvesting, and cultivation of medicinal plants from the wild;
3.3.1 Output: 30 herbalists with increased capacity and skills applying their vocation sustainably:
This will be carried through the engagement of critical stakeholders and partners in academia/research e.g. School of Pharmacy of University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) to be involved in the project implementation; identifying and documenting medicinal plants with support from Forestry Commission (FC), and Herbal practitioners and also setting up of, training and providing of startup kits for VSLA groups in 2 CRMCs to promote sustainable financial base of the beneficiary communities and also a s means for regular meeting of the project beneficiaries.
Activities:
1.1. Facilitate project communication in 2 traditional areas/CRMCs and introduce project to larger relevant stakeholders and partners;
1.2. Organize 1 consultative engagement with stakeholders and partners in academia/Research (UHAS) and FC to develop MoU for their involvement;
1.3. Facilitate the identification and documentation of the community herbal practitioners and indigenous knowledge/ herbs and uses in the 2 CRMCs for training;
1.4. Organize 2 sessions of non-residential training workshop for 30 selected community herbal practitioners and integrat
