FMNR PROGRAMMING IN WVU Immaculate Sekitto Technical Programme Manager Resilience & Livelihood 27 April 2018

Sector Strategic Ministry Objectives Improve Livelihood Resilience of 181,617 small-holder farmer an agro pastoralist households and Youth, for economic empowerment – “Farming as a business”, Improve food production & productivity for nutrition Improve household income for selected agricultural enterprises Improve natural resource base for sustainable livelihood (Core model FMNR) Improve household & institutional capacity to manage natural & man-made shocks & stress

Priority Areas: Each supported H/H must have Food Security Crop (in garden and/or proper storage or evidence of cash to buy food at all times) An income generating enterprise Practicing all NRM technologies (water harvesting, Soil & water conservation, agroforestry, woodlot, energy saving stove, FMNR) Practicing Nutrition SMART agriculture (OFSP, High iron beans, kitchen garden, small livestock) Member of Saving Group Member of Cooperative (production, marketing, savings &credit) Visited by an extension worker/or have access to M- Omulimisa

5 MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS ON FMNR Achievements Challenges Recommendations Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) one of the core model, is a low-cost approach to restore degraded farmlands, rangelands and landscapes for sustainable Livelihoods. The mode of implementation is through FMNR champions, school environmental clubs, FMNR network members and local leaders (government and community leaders). It involves rejuvenating living tree stumps or buried tree seeds in the soils to grow into useful trees by carrying out timely pruning, thinning and protection against animal and fire damages. FMNR in practice Kibaale 2013 Kibaale 2018 Output Indicator 2016 targets Achievements Variance Number of HHs using energy saving technology 4,366 4,440 2 % Number of farmers practicing agroforestry techniques 3,220 2,842 -11.7 % Number of functional disaster risk reduction structures 54 Number of sub-counties with Community Disaster Preparedness Plans (CDPPs) 38 37 -27 % School children practicing FMNR Nakasongola 2013 Nakasongola 2018 Achievements Challenges Recommendations 1,095 ha of degraded farmlands/rangelands restored 24,635 individuals adopted FMNR and 5,578 children trained in FMNR and energy saving technologies 68 % of the FMNR adopters are food secure and now provide well for their child wellbeing 24 government institutions are actively implementing FMNR model & 4 bye-laws already enacted Wild fire, grazing animals & theft of forest products Competing land uses especially for small land holders Ordinances take too long to be enacted Inadequate living tree stumps of high value tree species Promote collective community participation for sustainability Integrate FMNR with other valuable livelihood interventions Mobilize government leaders for good political will on FMNR legislations

GAME CHANGER: INTEGRATING FMNR WITH OTHER VALUABLE LIVELIHOOD INTERVENTIONS FMNR practice with coffee FMNR practice with maize FMNR practice with livestock FMNR practice with apiary

6 ACHIEVEMENTS CON,D Use of Energy Saving Stoves requires less firewood, saves time, reduced health hazards from smoke & has relieved children from daily fetching of fire wood in the bushes.

MORE SUCCESS STORIES FROM FMNR PROJECT 2012 -2017 Increased tree cover. In a period of four years, tree cover per acre in Kibaale increased from 10.2 at baseline to 18.8 end line whereas in Kotido, it increased from 2.2 at baseline to 5.4 at end line (FMNR Evaluation, 2017). Increased crop productivity & incomes (In Kibaale, sale of cereal crop increased from an average income of USD 18 at baseline to USD 423 at evaluation. In Kotido, sale of livestock increased from an average of USD 23.5 at baseline to USD 56.4 at evaluation. Other benefits: Fodder for animals, Poles for building; Enough fire wood; Fencing materials; Soil fertility enhancement; Knowledge & skills of FMNR in communities and schools Pupils/Youths taking up the technologies

Strategies for promotion of FMNR Promote FMNR in schools –use school environmental clubs (Children’s handbook on environment during club sessions, essay writing and debate competitions, FMNR demo sites, dance & drama by club members to sensitize parents & fellow children etc) Community champions (ToTs) Setting up FMNR demo sites in communities (for change of attitude towards regeneration of indigenous trees. The site is on degraded site, where trees were cut, but living tree stumps still existed; pilot area sites, model farmers.

Promotion of FMNR Con’D Facilitate exchange visits Faith based groups Awareness creation/mobilization through workshops and conferences Set up development networks Mass media etc

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