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

3. 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

4. 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. 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 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 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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 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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. Partners/Collaborators

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