Project Code: LA-WGO2 Project Title: Securing Gender Rights for Environmental Justice Overview of Project: Social and environmental factors including climate change are increasing gender inequalities and causing women to lose access to resources; limiting their rights to water, food security or a clean, healthy or safe environment. Women at the grassroots level play very important roles in conservation and environmental…
Project Code: LA-WG01 Project Title: Women2030 – building women capacity for change Overview of Project: Women generally have user rights to resources. Despite these rights their access to these resources has been reducing over the years due to environmental degradation and unfavourable policies. Although women hold specific indigenous knowledge and skills related to biodiversity including food and water, their role…
Project Code: ENVCO2 Project Title: Community Conservation Resilience Initiative (CCRI) Overview of Project: Unsustainable agricultural practices and unwise use of natural resources have been a persistent cause of degradation and deforestation leading to reduced livelihoods. The increasing and alarming rate of deforestation has huge implications for resilience of natural resources dependent communities as they dwell largely on these resources. Local…
Project Title: Sustaining food and livelihood security through organic agriculture Overview of Project: Farming serves as one of the major sources of livelihood in Ghana – many families work the land and sell in the market and for home use. However, the perspective that farming is a viable and economic livelihood is lacking. This along with the lack of alternatives…