Pasturelands - Mongolia's 'Green Gold'

Projekt abgeschlossen

The programme will reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of 100’000 semi-nomadic herder families (500’000 men, women and children) in Western Mongolia. Through collective action, sustainable pasture management and income generating activities are supported. Applied research will generate practical knowledge to be disseminated to herders and collective action groups by the government extension service. Promising market access chains for high quality Yak down are developed.

For Mongolia’s 160,000 herder households, incomes and livelihood security are highly dependent on rangeland-based livestock husbandry. Semi-nomadic livestock husbandry provides employment for more than 33% of the population, generates 70% of rural incomes, contributes significantly to national food security and is the bedrock for cultural identity of the country.

Land/Region Thema Periode Budget
Mongolei
Landwirtschaft und Ernährungssicherheit
Landwirtschaftliche Forschung
01.03.2004 - 31.12.2016
CHF 4'900'000
Hintergrund

Since 2004, the Green Gold Programme has focused on the semi-nomadic herding system to support sustainable rangeland management and economic development. While Phases 1 and 2 (2004 to 2009) experimented with Pasture User Groups (PUGs) as an approach to mobilizing local communities for sustainable range management, the current phase scaled up the community-based approach from 5 soums in 2009 to 66 soums in 2012 (out of total 330 soums nationwide).

Ziele

100,000 herder households (500,000 individuals, of which 45 to 55% female).

Zielgruppen

100,000 herder households (500,000 individuals, of which 45 to 55% female).

Mittelfristige Wirkungen

Herders - organized through collective action - manage rangeland sustainably and have better access to technological knowledge management and markets

Resultate

Erreichte Resultate:  

  • More than 42,000 herder households who joined more than 1000 Pasture-User Groups are sustainably managing and restoring 30 percent of Mongolia’s pasturelands;
  • The project covers seven of Mongolia’s 21 aimags and 126 of its 330 soums;
  • Herders’ incomes increased by 30 percent thanks to improved marketing of yak and camel wool; and
  • Herders’ cooperatives are increasingly supplying raw materials to national meat and skin/hide industries.


Erwartete Resultate:  

  1. PUGs have successfully negotiated land use contracts (LUCs).
  2. Institutional capacities for interpretation of land use databases are developed.
  3. Dissemination: herders are reached via the PUG system with relevant and tested extension messages
  4. Organized PUG’s apply semi-processing of yak down for increased income.


Resultate von früheren Phasen:  

113 PUGs (18 soums) rehabilitated 3.4 mio ha degraded rangelands

5000 ha hay field was fenced. Productivity increased 2-5 times and total production by 12 times. Green forage planting area increased by 15 times.

Herders and PUG leaders elected in the Soum and Aimag Citizens Meeting increased from 42 people in 2008 to 266 persons in 2012.

66 Soum Associations (total 329) of PUGs (APUGs) were created and 5 Aimag Federation (total 21) of APUGs were formed providing extension and marketing services to herders

National rangeland monitoring method was streamlined with international standards.

50, 000 herder households benefited to overcome seasonal cash shortages and 16, 873 herder households implemented income generation projects from Herders Matching Funds created in 66 soums.


Verantwortliche Direktion/Bundesamt DEZA
Kreditbereich Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Projektpartner Vertragspartner


Andere Partner

Ministry of Industry and Agriculture, Ministry of Environment and Green Development, Ministry of Education, National Association of Mongolian Agricultural Cooperatives, Private sector companies and Federations of Associations of Pasture User Groups.

Koordination mit anderen Projekten und Akteuren

GG IV is closely connected to the GoMs’ implementation of the budgetary decentralization policy. In that respect, GG has synergies and collaborates with the Soum (district) and Local Development Funds (Integrated Budget Law (IBL, GoM), Governance and Decentralization program (GDP, SDC), Sustainable Livelihoods Project (SLPIII, WB/SDC), Index Based Livestock Insurance Project (IBLIP, WB/SDC), Capacity Strengthening of Local Self-Governing Bodies (UNDP/SDC).

Budget Laufende Phase Schweizer Beitrag CHF   4'900'000 Bereits ausgegebenes Schweizer Budget CHF   5'039'716
Projektphasen Phase 4 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2016   (Completed) Phase 3 01.01.2010 - 31.12.2012   (Completed)