Transnational project
Transnational knowledge transfer and partnership project. Linking African NGOs and institutions.
Southern Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change. This also entails a number of risks for the achievement of global development goals, in particular for agriculture, water availability and quality, the livelihoods of the rural population, social development and poverty reduction. In addition, traditional, indigenous and generational knowledge and understanding of the importance and interconnectedness of the environment with human needs is increasingly being lost. This leads to various forms of environmental degradation, e.g. overexploitation of natural resources and the spread of unsustainable development patterns. Rural communities in particular are becoming less resilient to extreme weather events.
In order to counteract this development, the focus of this project is on the transnational and networked dissemination of environmental competence and agro-ecological concepts in the sense of permaculture.
Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique have already developed systems and programme interventions at the national level and taken steps towards a better informed and resilient public with regard to the relationship between climate, environment and lifestyles. Nevertheless, there are still major gaps and challenges, especially with regard to access to information for the rural population, the development of trans-national approaches to climate adaptation and environmental protection.
Objectives of the Project
The primary objective of this project is the formation of a transnational network of civil society and state actors who are creating awareness for climate adaptation, environmental protection and indigenous land use practices in Southern Africa.
This objective is supported by the three sub objectives
- At least nine civil society organisations and/or state institutions from the SADC region are networking on the topics of environmental protection and/or adaptation to climate change and position themselves jointly for the implementation of regional environmental protection and the dissemination of agro-ecological cultivation principles.
- 808 small scale farmers use agro-ecological cultivation methods and the environmental awareness of 102 trained pupils and 11 teachers in the target regions is increased through access to information and knowledge about environmental protection and climate change and is actively implemented in the schools.
- The integration of environmental education into Mozambique's national curriculum is anchored in a national policy for environmental education in schools until 31 July 2023.
