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Figure 8: Satellite Image showing locations of the 14 survey sites
In the meantime, CRC will leverage funding from private sector corporations for follow- up survey work in the coastal wetlands in order to incrementally build the foundations
for coastal and marine management units that will be co-managed with local communities.
2.2.3 Livelihoods Resilience at Fish Landing Sites
This is covered in section 2.1.4 above. In the Cape Three Points focal area, the communities are Dix Cove, which is a representative large fishing community and landing
site, and Akwidaa which is highly vulnerable to flooding and will need to re-locate in the near future.
Small Grants The second round of the Small Grants program allocated an additional nine grants to
ongoing and worthy initiatives in middle of Year 2. Some of these grants are still ongoing in the Cape Three Points Focal area. Two of these beneficiaries OLIVES and
Conservation Foundation in the Cape Three Points focal area continued their program activities with expanded roles. OLIVES continued to work with more women to grow
chicken while Conservation Foundation covered 9 more communities under its wetlands conservation program. Also in the Ahanta West Districts two, new organizations Merhans
Foundation and OGSFORD were supported. Merhans Foundation has been involved with
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women to raise rabbits and grasscutters for improved nutrition and diversified livelihood while OGSFORD used rural drama to mobilize and educate fisherfolk on the fisheries
regulations for compliance.
Figure 9: Visitors admiring rabbits on display at the Hen Mpoano stand
OLIVES and Merhans Foundation in collaboration with the Hen Mpoano Initiative participated in the Ahanta West District celebrations of the National Farmers Day on
December 2, 2012. An exhibition was held alongside the official ceremony and prize presentations.
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The grantees exhibited chicken, grasscutter and rabbit projects from the small grant diversified livelihood in the District as well as other products from the Initiatives
activities including publications, posters and pictures of interventions. Visitors to the acknowledged the exceptional importance of these Hen Mpoano interventions in the
communities especially the contribution being made towards food security in the district. The Hen Mpoano Initiative was encouraged to expand the small grant projects to cover
more beneficiaries.
Figure 10: Rural drama at Dixcove on vexed issues in the fisheries
2.3 Greater Amanzule
