The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched a one-million-dollar ‘OneTreePlanted’ programme to plant 5 million timber by 2024 to restore degraded areas in the Black Volta panorama. The programme was launched below the UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grant Programme (GEF/SGP) at Maluwe in the Bole Bamboi District of the Savannah area of Ghana.
The ‘OneTreePlanted’ programme will improve capability and provide numerous seedlings together with Cassia, Mahogany, Cashew, and Mango to chosen communities in the Black Volta panorama for planting. The goal is to battle environmental degradation and promote sustainable livelihood enterprises in the panorama.
“This programme is about not leaving anyone behind. We are all expected to be involved in tree planting on farms, in open spaces, around towns, school compounds and in forest areas. Plant at least one tree and maintain it for people and for the planet”, Angela Lusigi, the UNDP Resident Representative in Ghana urged the communities at the launch.
Dr. Lusigi additionally famous that the programme is to contribute to the Government of Ghana’s Green Ghana agenda by supporting the communities to put money into sustainable land administration and the conservation of the Black Volta Basin ecosystem. She added that it’s going to additionally give attention to offering various livelihood help programs to improve the wellbeing of the folks, whiles sustaining the setting.
The Chief of Maluwe (Maluwewura), Sulemana Bramani, expressed appreciation to UNDP and pledged the dedication of the communities in the space to the success of the programme.
“We are very happy that UNDP has selected our area for this laudable agenda OneTreePlanted programme. This initiative is not only investing in our fuelwood but in our livelihood improvement. My advice to the woodblock farmers is that, visit your farms regularly and cater for your tree farms”, the Maluwewura famous.
The Black Volta panorama is a global water ecosystem that generates clear power from the Bui hydropower for nationwide improvement. The panorama additionally supplies haven to globally threatened species together with hippopotamus, elephants, and Buffalos. It can be identified that crop manufacturing from this panorama contributes 37.5% of yam, 11.3% of cassava, 17.2% of maize and 28.7% of native rice to the nationwide totals. The space thus helps livelihood companies for over one million indigenous folks.
The prosperity and sustainable administration of the Black Volta panorama is subsequently an amazing precedence for nationwide improvement. Unfortunately, the panorama has been subjected to environmental abuses over the years. The space experiences uncontrolled wildfire, unlawful mining, uncontrolled harvesting of wooden for timber and charcoal, and unsustainable farming practices. A development evaluation exhibits that if nothing is completed, Ghana is probably going to lose the potential of the Black Volta panorama as a pure useful resource for nationwide improvement. It is essential to improve the resilience of the communities to local weather change impacts and thus scale back poverty, and this requires partnerships.
“The UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme will devote US$1milion direct funding support to the OneTreePlanted programme whiles mobilizing additional support from other development partners. I am glad to say that the TerraFund for financing Africa’s Top 100 Tree Restoration Projects and Enterprises has committed US$150,000 over the next three-years to support the programme. We would want to appeal to other donors to join the implementation of the programme”, said Dr George Ortsin, the National Coordinator of the UNDP GEF Small Grant Programme in Ghana.
The UNDP GEF Small Grant Programme is already supporting 5 communities in the Bole Bamboi District with agroforestry and the OneTreePlanted Programme is to complement the current agroforestry initiative.
“Currently, we have almost 2000 farmers in 5 communities in the landscape, who are restoring the degraded landscape under the UNDP GEF Small Grant Programme. The farmers have integrated food crops into their woodblocks, and this is our contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation because we are reducing poverty whiles protecting the environment”, stated Hannah Boaduaa, the Programme Lead in Maluwe.
The purpose of the ‘OneTreePlanted’ programme is to restore about 170 hectares of degraded areas in the Black Volta panorama to contribute to Ghana’s local weather motion agenda.
Source: UNDP Ghana
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