Tag: #community

Gaviotas Reforestation Project in Colombia

Over 200 people live in the ecovillage of Gaviotas, Colombia, in the Llanos grasslands. Although it is significantly smaller than the...

Solar-pumped Water in Mali

To expand and ease access to water in Dialakorodji, Mali, the Nationale de l’Hydraulique (DNH), in partnership with UNDP and...

Renewable Energy Finds its Way to Rural Cameroon

In 2020, Cameroon’s Ministry of Water and Energy and UNESCO launched a partnership aimed at improving access to energy in...

Climate-smart Agriculture of Zimbabwe

An integrated resilience-building initiative is working to protect vulnerable communities from climate-related and other shocks by giving people the additional...

Africa’s Largest Wind Project

After commencing only in 2015, the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP) in Kenya rapidly become the largest such initiative...

The Khasi Hills Community REDD+ Project

The Khasi Hills Community REDD+ Project located in the state of Meghalaya, Northeast India spans over 27,000 hectares and deploys...

Odisha Receives Appreciation for its Efficient Disaster Management Approach

Odisha has received appreciation for the exemplary way in which it has managed to cope with the disasters that have...