Africa

Strengthening the adaption to climate variability through Food Security for the Indigenous people of Southern Kalahari

Elsie Vaalbooi Development Organization (EVDO) The initiative aims to establish a community garden that will address the disruption of food availability, the reduction of access to food, and food quality that is amplified by climate change. EVDO’s mission revolves around the youth and therefore as we implement this initiative, we will continue to invest in …

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Strengthening of Household Energy Resilience and Security of Mbororo Communities through the Revitalization of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge:Improved Clay Stoves and Fireless Cooking Bags in,four communities in the Mbéré Division, Adamawa Region of Cameroon.

African Indigenous Women Organization Central African Network (AIWO-CAN) This initiative aims to promote energy efficient of cooking methods trough the introduction and scaling up of ameliorated indigenous clay stioves and an innovation of fireless cooking bags.

Revitalization and transmission of traditional knowledge to combat extinction and dormancy

Indigenous Information Network (IIN) The revitalization of indigenous knowledge, transmission from older generation to the young while trying to combat possible extinction and dormancy. Activities will include 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 be …

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Ngetngetä ngöghomnyo äsïl pö Pökõt” :Promoting traditional knowledge for community resilience in West Pokot County

Pastoral Communities Empowerment programe (PACEP) The initiative: Ngetngetä ngöghomnyo äsïl pö Pökõt” :Promoting traditional knowledge for community resilience in West Pokot County goal is to create a more sustainable food system in resulting in healthier communities through traditional food and knowledge revitalization.

Projet de développement de l’apiculture pour la conservation de la biodiversité, la sécurité alimentaire et la génération de revenus pour le peuple Batwa du district de Rutsiro

OSEPCCA Bees play a central role for indigenous forest communities such as the Batwa. Harvested honey is used as medicine, food and as a bride price. The Batwa also understand the importance of bees in pollinating different plant species in the forest. However, their eviction from their ancestral forest lands has limited their participation in …

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Grounding the work to document and transmit mother tongue in school

Center for Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and Experiential Learning. (CCIKEL) This Initiative aims to sustain and amplify our on-going efforts to document, protect, promote and transmit mother tongue for the current and future generations. The purpose is to recruit and nurture new generation of speakers of the language and support the process by availing written materials …

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Preserving Ogoni Indigenous Identity and Language

African Indigenous Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development (AIFES) This initiative seeks to restore the once-cherished ethnic growth and bonds amongst the Ogoni people. It is structured to minimize the negative effects of removing Ogoni Mother Tongues and Language of Immediate Community Tongue from National Policy on Education and retention of English Language and three …

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