Gambia - Sustainable Land Management Project

The Sustainable Land Management Project (SLMP) is an incremental financing for the Participatory Integrated Watershed Management Project (PIWAMP). Therefore as PIWAMP, it is designed to have nation-wide coverage of the low and high lands that are used in agriculture production in the Gambia. It seeks to address interlinked problems of rural poverty, food insecurity and land degradation. The main outputs of the project include operational national and regional level Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Platforms comprising a multi-level partnership of stakeholder institutions promoting SLM; an agreed SLM Investment Framework for strategic planning, prioritisation and implementation of targeted investments. At least 10 senior policy makers and technical experts with an enhanced knowledge of different tillage techniques; a minimum of 36 ward level Multi- disciplinary Facilitation Teams (MDFTs) with the skills and experience required to support rural communities in implementation and monitoring of community based watershed/landscape management plans; and at least 42 farmer centred conservation agriculture validation trials and demonstrations will be achieved by implementing the SLMP.