Project Information
Location: Abutia and Adaklu
Duration: 24 Months
Focus Area: Resetlement of people in the Kalakpa resource reserve.
Funding/Implementation Partner: BUSAC Fund, Forestry Commission, Ho West and Adaklu District Assemblies.
Project Overview
The Kalakpa Resource Reserve was established in the year 1975, pending the settlement of its inhabitants, human, flora and fauna from spiral downward trend towards natural and social extinction due to deforestation and forest degradation. This forest reserve has been the only natural forest reserve in the Volta region, which need to be in protected for ecotourism. The target beneficiaries are the inhabitants, the district assemblies, ecotourism-and a place to learn about natural species as the flora and fauna. The overalll goal is to ultimately see inhabitants of KRR decently relocated and practicing decent and legal livelihoods, in the absence of managerial conflict with the managing authourity, while the KRR thrives in enhanced biodiversity, to provide the intended social economic and environmental services to the local and global community in harmony with natures’ law.
Project Objectives
To get the inhabitants sustainable livelihood and investment outside the reserve
To train inhabitants in advocacy to demand their rights to relocation/and decent living.
To cause a local board of governors to be constituted to promote accountability among managers of the reserve, to enhance prudent management to relocate.
Ultimately create enabling situation to compel corporate Ghana institutions to play their roles to relocation of the inhabitants.
To create awareness of conservation.
Key Activities Implemented
- Activity 1: Sensitization of segmented stakeholders
- Activity 2: Stakeholders’ workshop for discussion of project activities, roles and responsibilities
- Activity 3: Advocacy training for task-bearers and lead advocates to engage duty-bearers on decent livelihood for KRR inhabitants and the move to resettle them outside the reserve.
- Activity 4: Lead advocates ‘dialogue with duty-bearer institutions for implementation of agreed upon actions
- Activity 5: Formative evaluation research
- Activity 6: Follow-up discussion with stakeholders on targets achievement.
- Activity 7: Project result dissemination workshop
Impact & Results
Kalakpa resource reserve residents supported to engage in legal and improved livelihood activities; a local management board established to drive the ultimate agenda of good resource governance that would see KRR resident relocated from the reserve; a thriving KRR that supports conservation efforts, livelihoods, tourism and production to end the suffering of men, children and dwindling forest and wildlife resources and rather step up productivity.
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