rehabilitation committees). Approve and implement bylaws proposed by council land rehabilitation committees (MoLGCAMoLGCA and MFRSC). Output 2.5. A strategy MFRSC. Develop and implement a for maintaining technical strategy for maintaining the capacity in the MFRSC technical capacity of relevant and relevant MFRSC departments. departments. Develop and disseminate user-friendly literature on climate change adaptation and monitoring to relevant stakeholders. Outcome 3. Output 3.1. MFRSC, Implement interventions – Over 50,000 ha of land ecosystem Community developed under Output 1.4 across the Foothills, rehabilitation and Councils, NGOs in sites selected under – Lowlands and the Lower management (e.g. CARE, World Outputs 1.1 and 1.3. Senqu River Basin interventions in Vision, RSDA), Develop and disseminate rehabilitated through Lithipeng, Khoelenya and local communities. information on climate-smart operationalization of the Thaba-Mokhele ecosystem rehabilitation and climate-smart Land Community Councils, management approaches Rehabilitation including: i) protection of (MFRSC). Programme. critical fens and bogs; ii) Develop and implement adoption of conservation strategies for community agriculture and ownership of interventions practices; and iii) beyond project termination to strategic interventions in relevant stakeholders. sensitive areas, including construction of check dams and rehabilitation of old gulleys and rills. Output 3.2. A long-term MFRSC, Undertake baseline strategy for monitoring Community assessments of soil erosion, and evaluating Councils, local grass cover and existing ecosystem communities. interventions to control soil rehabilitation and erosion. management Identify treatment and control interventions for the sites, and implement MFRSC and relevant experimental design departments, including treatments. an experimental design Establish monitoring points at to evaluate the impact of intervention and control sites interventions using grass as well as establish systems cover as a proxy for to collect data on the rangeland productivity. impacts of climate-smart ecosystem rehabilitation and management interventions. Collect long-term data on the impacts of climate-smart ecosystem rehabilitation and management interventions. Analyse data from pilot interventions and experimental design; collate the results; and disseminate to schools, media, public institutions and relevant stakeholders (MFRSC).
rehabilitation committees). Approve and implement bylaws proposed by land rehabilitation committees (MoLGCAMoLGCA and MFRSC). Output 2.5. A strategy for maintaining technical capacity in the MFRSC and relevant departments. MFRSC. Develop and implement a strategy for maintaining the technical capacity of relevant MFRSC departments. Develop and disseminate user-friendly literature on climate change adaptation and monitoring to relevant stakeholders. Outcome 3. Over 50,000 ha of land across the Foothills, Lowlands and the Lower Senqu River Basin rehabilitated through operationalization of the climate-smart Land Rehabilitation Programme. Output 3.1. ecosystem rehabilitation and management interventions in Lithipeng, Khoelenya and Thaba-Mokhele Community Councils, including: i) protection of critical fens and bogs; ii) adoption of conservation agriculture and practices; and iii) strategic interventions in sensitive areas, including construction of check dams and rehabilitation of old gulleys and rills. MFRSC, Community Councils, NGOs (e.g. CARE, World Vision, RSDA), local communities. Implement interventions – developed under Output 1.4 – in sites selected under Outputs 1.1 and 1.3. Develop and disseminate information on climate-smart ecosystem rehabilitation and management approaches (MFRSC). Develop and implement strategies for community ownership of interventions beyond project termination to relevant stakeholders. Output 3.2. A long-term strategy for monitoring and evaluating ecosystem rehabilitation and management interventions for the MFRSC and relevant departments, including an experimental design to evaluate the impact of interventions using grass cover as a proxy for rangeland productivity. MFRSC, Community Councils, local communities. Undertake baseline assessments of soil erosion, grass cover and existing interventions to control soil erosion. Identify treatment and control sites, and implement experimental design treatments. Establish monitoring points at intervention and control sites as well as establish systems to collect data on the impacts of climate-smart ecosystem rehabilitation and management interventions. Collect long-term data on the impacts of climate-smart ecosystem rehabilitation and management interventions. Analyse data from pilot interventions and experimental design; collate the results; and disseminate to schools, media, public institutions and relevant stakeholders (MFRSC). council
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