PAPFor

Development and support to sustainable livelihoods and markets

Kristell — 2023-04-03T17:42:32Z

Complex challenges require integrated approaches to ensure they are adequately addressed. This includes promoting agroforestry (tree crops), agroecology and conservation agriculture (minimum tillage); Integrated Pest Management using local organic pesticides; compost production; nitrogen-fixing cover crops to encourage growth of biomass to
reduce fallow periods; techniques and practices to increase both the land equivalent ratio and income generation potential of farmers' fields, and improvement of post-harvest storage to conserve yields. In addition, crop diversification has the potential to develop the regional market, and support in advisory services, value chain, market development, sector consultation and collaborations, access to credit and other inputs, all of which could
generate increased economic returns in the landscape while encouraging the adoption of climate-smart practices.

As well as nutrition support to households and communities, there is also the potential to mitigate HEC through prioritising deterrents to elephant crop raiding such as non-palatable crops like pepper and ginger, and through apiculture.

Promoting connectivity and maintaining tree cover through community engagement

Kristell — 2023-04-03T17:40:50Z

In a context of high anthropic and agricultural pressure, it is important to maintain physical connectivity between the protected areas by supporting communities to recognise and support the management of forest corridors on village lands that are used as migratory routes for wildlife.

Participatory land-use plans and rural appraisals will be conducted by WWZ community governance structures to implement appropriate community planning and monitoring protocols; priority corridors and core forest areas will be identified/confirmed and then monitored.

Community agreements and participation measures will be put in place to mitigate impacts of connectivity bottlenecks across the landscape. Direct links to livelihood support will be focused on those communities adjacent to priority corridors to provide clear incentives to maintain and enhance them.

Support for protected areas co-management and transboundary collaboration

Kristell — 2023-04-03T17:39:01Z

Within the context of increased community participation and governance, PAPFor provides support to CFZ in Guinea and the FDA in Liberia, both government agencies in charge of managing Ziama and Wologizi-Wonegizi, using different approaches. The programme offers capacity-building opportunities through training in law enforcement techniques and management tools, such as SMART software and IMET (Integrated
Management Effectiveness Tool) to enable close monitoring of management effectiveness and tracking of threats, law enforcement and biomonitoring.

Other actions are assessing social impacts of the protected areas and support for field and office equipment and transboundary patrol implementation and coordination, and in some cases, infrastructure.