South Rift Association of Land owners(SORALO) This initiative aims to document, collect, and preserve Maasai traditions, both material and nonmaterial culture, at the Olorgessallie Maasai Cultural Center and promote a biannual gathering of the Maasai to celebrate their culture as a way to continue passing on their cultural practices to younger generations. The complete structure …
UNIPROBA (Unissons-nous pour la promotion des Batwa) The project’s main objective is to improve access to land by the Batwa in Burundi with the involvement of public authorities. To improve the capacity of beneficiaries regarding land rights, the importance of natural resources, and how to protect and save them for future generations. To engage the …
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Yiaku Laikipia Trust The main objective of this initiative was to use collected data on the Yiaku people and the Yiakunte dialect and present it in print media by developing the Yiakunte language and pictorial booklets for learning, teaching, and preservation of the history of the Yiaku people. Yiakunte language and pictorial booklets and dictionary …
Gurapau Group The project proposal is to establish a cultural information and language Centre specifically focusing on gathering, preserving, and researching materials of cultural, religious, and historical importance to the El-Molo community. Moreover, the Centre will provide an environment where El-molo people will continually learn and use their language and other cultural aspects. Objects and …
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Ogiek Peoples Development Programme (OPDP) The project will improve the lighting system of the Nkareta community by installing solar units at the Cultural Centre and 50 households surrounding the center, making it a Renewable Energy Village Model. Setting up a biogas plant at the Centre to serve the Ogiek community and act as a demonstration …
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 …