Elsie Vaalbooi Development Organization (EVDO) The initiative aims to establish a community garden that will address the disruption of food availability, reduced access to food, and food quality amplified by climate change. EVDO’s mission revolves around the youth, and therefore, as we implement this project, we will continue to invest in the youth through ongoing …
African Indigenous Women Organization Central African Network (AIWO-CAN) This project aims to promote energy-efficient cooking methods through the introduction and scaling up ofAmeliorated indigenous clay stoves and an innovation of fireless cooking bags. These are considered both energy- and cost-efficient adaptation and resilience strategies for reducing pressure on forests for energy purposes and easing the …
Save Lamu The initiative aimed to promote, protect, and conserve the marine environment and enhance natural resource governance in Lamu, including rehabilitating the already destructed mangrove areas. Through this project, we have planned to gather with partners to enhance mangrove restoration activities in Lamu as they are beneficial and communal. Supporting 7 groups to establish …
Indigenous Information Network (IIN) The revitalization of indigenous knowledge and transmission from the older generation to the young while trying to combat possible extinction and dormancy through the revitalization of vernacular languages learning and relating to Land and productive resources (environmental conservation, food systems, health, culture, and education) as important heritage of different communities to …
Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) To deliver sexual and reproductive health care education to Maasai pastoralist communities in 2 villages of Ngorongoro District to prevent HIV/AIDS, which is on the rise within the community. The critical approach was to raise awareness, disseminate information, and provide access to sexual health and family planning services by facilitating …
Pastoral Communities Empowerment programe (PACEP) The initiative aims to create a more sustainable food system, resulting in healthier communities through traditional food and knowledge revitalization by (1) assessing the historical and existing traditional food systems within the Pokot community from production and land management through to consumption, with a particular emphasis on enablers of a …
OSEPCCA This project aimed to provide an innovative way for the Batwa to participate in protecting forest biodiversity and the Batwa way of life in the RUTSIRO district, KIGEYO sector, and BONEZA while improving their food security and income. The Batwa were expelled from their ancestral forest lands, limiting their participation in forest conservation and …
Center for Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and Experiential Learning. (CCIKEL) The initiative aimed to sustain and amplify ongoing efforts to document, protect, promote, and transmit the mother tongue for the current and future generations. The purpose was to recruit and nurture a new generation of language speakers and support the process by making written materials available …
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African Indigenous Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development (AIFES) Its objective is to improve public identification with the Ogoni language, culture, and customs to minimize the adverse effects of removing the Ogoni Mother Tongues and Immediate Community Tongue from the National Policy on Education and Retention of the English Language and three Major Nigerian Languages. …
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Ardha Jabesa Foundation The initiative aimed to document and preserve traditional medicine and traditional healing practices by documenting the use and efficacy of the healing process, concerted campaigns to highlight the positive aspects of traditional medicine, conservation of specific endangered medicinal plants, creation of a platform that allows free exchange of ideas between practitioners of …