Africa

Protection of San Communities Human Rights through Capacity Development and Empowerment in 6 Villages

San Youth Network (SYNet) The initiative seeks to support the San/Indigenous Communities of 6 villages in Ghanzi, Botswana, to build their confidence and ensure that they defend themselves on the issues of social injustice. To empower and amplify the voices of the San indigenous communities to articulate their issues in critical platforms.

Empowering lives, restoring hope for indigenous Mbororo Peoples.

Lelewal Foundation The initiative seeks to provide holistic support to individuals who have faced adversity through displacement and have experienced trauma, abuse, or other challenging life circumstances like cattle rustling and kidnapping for ransom payment by armed groups due to war caused by the “Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. To use the indigenous people’s principle of …

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Building climate change resilient communities

Pastoralists Indigenous Non-Governmental Organizations PINGOs The initiative aims to strengthen community-based and collective-held knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, offering valuable insights and complementing scientific data on climate science and landscape-specific to enable Indigenous Peoples and the decision-making bodies to verify climate models and evaluate climate change scenarios at a much broader spatial and temporal scale. The …

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Scaling up renewable energy as a means of combating climate change crisis among Ogiek of Mau Forest in Kenya

Ogiek Peoples Development Programme (OPDP) The initiative aims to increase clean energy and access to the Ogiek Community by providing renewable energy and mitigating climate change. To: a) Build the capacity of the Ogiek community on the use of renewable energies such as energy-saving jikos, biogas, briquettes, and solar systems; b) Provide support to 50 …

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Kulima Kwambone, Malawi

Social Economic Enhancement & Enterprise Development (SEEED Malawi) The Kulima Kwambone project has been designed to enhance Indigenous knowledge on the utilisation of underutilised and neglected biodiversity in food systems through an integral approach to farmland conservation using sustainable agricultural practices for diversified food production and income security. Malawi is considered food insecure every year …

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Enhancing the Socio-Economic Status of 30 Women Master Farm Vegetable Producers in the Upper River Region through Value Addition of agricultural produce and Economic Empowerment

TUMANA agency for development To achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable economic growth and employment. To improve economic well-being, levels of nutrition, and the capacity development of women in agriculture and agricultural practices that enable them to get income and sustain themselves and ensure the availability of farm produce at affordable prices and …

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Revalorising Indigenous Pastoralists’ Traditional Knowledge and Practices: Promoting Sustainable Grazing and Household Energy Resilience in the West Region of Cameroon

African Indigenous Women Organization Central African Network (AIWO-CAN) Mbororo pastoralist communities depend on the natural environment for survival, but with climate change, conservation, and tourism, this system is under threat, making extensive herding challenging. This project will address the need to change the quality of herding through improved pastures and the ability of animals to …

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To support livestock herders in recovering from massive livestock losses caused by drought, subsequent malnutrition, and poor health.

Kivulini Trust To provide emergency support to herders and families who lost their livestock during the prolonged drought (that lasted more than four years) and, thus, their main source of livelihood. It will buy and give a viable number of hardy goats to families. Since the animals will take time to breed, the initiative will …

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