Mitigation climate change in local communities through sustainable Living Education and Practices
The project aims to educated and create awareness on energy efficient technologies, climate change. This project will enable six community groups from the Hardap and Karas Region to participate in a NaDEET Centre programme on the NamibRand Nature Reserve. Participants will take part in activities that will help them to directly implement changes to their current household energy practices. Project participants will make their own fuel-efficient stoves and will receive solar cooking appliances as part of their training.
This project will enable six community groups from the Hardap and Karas Region to participate in a NaDEET Centre programme on the NamibRand Nature Reserve. The NaDEET Centre programme will be approximately 3-4 days in length. It will include a theoretical component about the environmental crisis with emphasis on climate change and our environmental values. The majority of the programme will be hands-on in nature with practical solutions to environmental problems (focussed on energy). Participants will take part in activities that will help them to directly implement changes to their current household energy practices. Project participants will make their own fuel-efficient stoves and will receive solar cooking appliances as part of their training.
NaDEET Centre is located 150 km west of Maltahöhe on the NamibRand Nature Reserve in the Hardap Region. The southern part of Namibia is sparsely populated, has few population centres and has vast distances between settlements. As NaDEET is located on a nature reserve, it also is faced with these challenges. NaDEET therefore considers all settlements within 100-450 km in the Hardap and Karas Regions our ?local community?. This includes villages and towns such as Maltahöhe, Rietoog, Bethanie, Helmeringhausen and the inhabitants of the local commercial and communal farming areas.
This project will enable six community groups from the Hardap and Karas Region to participate in a NaDEET Centre programme on the NamibRand Nature Reserve. The NaDEET Centre programme will be approximately 3-4 days in length. It will include a theoretical component about the environmental crisis with emphasis on climate change and our environmental values. The majority of the programme will be hands-on in nature with practical solutions to environmental problems (focussed on energy). Participants will take part in activities that will help them to directly implement changes to their current household energy practices. Project participants will make their own fuel-efficient stoves and will receive solar cooking appliances as part of their training.
NaDEET Centre is located 150 km west of Maltahöhe on the NamibRand Nature Reserve in the Hardap Region. The southern part of Namibia is sparsely populated, has few population centres and has vast distances between settlements. As NaDEET is located on a nature reserve, it also is faced with these challenges. NaDEET therefore considers all settlements within 100-450 km in the Hardap and Karas Regions our ?local community?. This includes villages and towns such as Maltahöhe, Rietoog, Bethanie, Helmeringhausen and the inhabitants of the local commercial and communal farming areas.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust
Country:
Namibia
Area Of Work:
Climate Change Mitigation
Grant Amount:
US$ 42,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 9,014.00
Project Number:
NAM/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/09/09
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Capacity - Building Component
Project participants will be selected from communities in the Hardap and Karas Region that are approximately 100-450km away from NaDEET Centre. Participants will be invited from established community structures to complement existing community development work. It is important for NaDEET to work with groups of adults that will be able to share and support each other after their NaDEET Centre programme. This will improve the overall success of the project in the long term. Established community structures that will be invited to participate include communal conservancies, Nacobta supported project and Women?s Action for Development projects. A total of six workshops with approximately 20 participants per workshop will be held. Therefore a total of 120 people will directly benefit from the project through their workshop participation and the materials they will receive to reduce their CO2 emissions. Approximately 4-5 people per participant or 600 people will indirectly benefit as they are family members and/ or close friends of the participants who reside at the same homestead as the project participants. It is anticipated that primarily women will attend the workshops as the household member traditionally responsible for food preparation; although men will also be welcome. Almost all participants will be from marginalised backgrounds as the most dominant ethnic group in the area is Nama.
Notable Community Participation
The nature of this project was developed over many years of hosting school groups at NaDEET Centre. During these groups only 2-3 adults, primarily teachers, have had the opportunity to benefit from NaDEET?s sustainable living programme. The teachers comment frequently that they learn just as much as their learners and almost all have never seen a solar cooker or have had any sustainable living education before.
In May 2008, NaDEET held a workshop for community campsite managers and employees to improve their environmental standards. One of the participants wrote in their evaluation, ?[The workshop] helped me a lot where by when I go back to our site I can make a big change. I promise to recycle water, save water and to get a solar stove.? A teacher that came with her learners wrote, ?The programme is so informative, excellent and very interesting. We as teachers as well as learners learned a lot here at NaDEET.?
From conversations with these adults over the past six years, NaDEET has established a clear need to offer programmes tailored-made to community members. Learners also need to have the support of their elders in their home communities to be able to implement sustainable living more quickly and effectively.
SGP Country office contact
Mr. Nickey Lazarus Gaseb
Phone:
+264 61 431 7700
Email:
Address
C/O Environment Investment Fund of Namibia, 8933 Heinitzburg Heights. c/o Heinitzburg & Dr. Theo-Ben Gurirab Streets, Klein Windhoek, Windhoek 9000, Khomas. Namibia.
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