Enhance the Rural Farmer's Resilience to climate change adaptation in the East, West and Northern Rwanda

Climate change in Rwanda.

Rwanda has the most difficult challenges of high vulnerability to climate change such increased drought periods in the Eastern Rwanda and increased frequency and intensity of storms in the Northern and Western Rwanda. Most of the paces threaten to stall or reverse development gains and hence extreme recurrent poverty of the rural farmer’s communities and livelihoods in urban areas of Rwanda. The Rwandan living standards must be improved by developing the economy and society in a way that is able to withstand the impacts of a changing climate.


Projected impacts and others, undermine investments in food security and global health, as well as create new potential for conflict over land and resources. This grant will strengthen the collaboration of different actor such as local government, private sector, NGOs, the research community, and particularly vulnerable populations. Working together to facilitate adaptation will help to increase the resilience of vulnerable communities, and ecosystems to climate change impacts.

These interventions are going to gain on the U.S. dedicated significant additional funding to climate change adaptation from 2010 to 2012. The intervention of the project will build on the findings of the recent national information on climate vulnerabilities found by the Rwandan second National Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Two non government organizations(GLCPD AND ADPR/TURAMIRANE are going to work for the achievements of the proposed recommendations from the national communications reports from the UNEP and elaborated by Rwanda Environment Authority.

Promote ownership and inheritance rights of women historically marginalized (indigenous people) and in the fight against violence and the spread of HI

In Rwanda, the native woman is marginalized or historically ignorant, and therefore does not know and do not enjoy their rights in the community, especially those related to the management of economic resources, land rights to assets and rights related to the succession of property in the family compared to their brothers. This results in multiple consequences including heightened and persistent poverty among indigenous women. This gender inequality and poverty have dropped a large number of indigenous women into the trap of dependency towards their male partners and expose violence and sexual assault risk of contamination with HIV / AIDS.

GLCPD project involves capacity building of local community environmental project on the protection of women's rights to property and their rights to inherit property, how to provide support to survivors of acts of violence and ensure that the fight against HIV / AIDS includes strategies for reducing violence against women, establishing a link between efforts to prevent violence and HIV / AIDS at the against women historically marginalized. The building will be made to the target group, the traditional heads of families, police, judiciary, health workers, social services and decentralized local authorities. The project will be implemented through awareness, advocacy and training and advocacy for beneficiaries with decision-making bodies.

Challenge and Opportunities of innovation agriculture in Africa identified by GLCPD

Challenge : Little knowledge of farmer organizations in improved agriculture technologies ,insufficient financial capacity for infrastructure development like mechanization for production, post harvest for value addition, market opportunity for the produce, strengthen the process of partnership of different organizations to avail innovations to farmer organizations beneficiaries.

Opportunities: Availability of the agricultural innovations in the research organizations and universities, the compliance with the government orientation policy and the willingness of farmer organizations beneficiaries to the innovations.

GLCPD Secretary published March 2011

WEAK PARTICIPATION OF CITIZEN IN DECISION MAKING

The proposal arises out of the prevailing concern that Rwandan civil society organizations and citizens are not interested or organized enough to engage actively and effectively in public policy dialogue and in monitoring the use of public resources allocated to economic development and community wellbeing. Today Rwanda scores poorly on the Voice and Accountability Index and despite progress in recent years, there is evidence of deepening poverty and growing inequality in the country, biased especially against rural women, youth and people with disabilities.
Numerous studies and meetings of civil society and Rwanda development partners in recent months have drawn attention to Rwanda civil society organizations’ and citizens’ weak voice in decision-making process particularly at local level. While noting that the government of Rwanda is continually opening up to and providing formal spaces for citizens and civil society at all levels to engage in public policy dialogue and monitoring of service delivery, they are not responding with enough interest and commitment to make an impact on these processes.
The same trend is observed at the local government level where again citizens (directly or indirectly through their elected representatives) are not utilizing effectively the formal spaces provided under the decentralization framework (Umuganda, Ubudehe, JADF, CDC, Imihigo etc.) to bring their voices to bear on planning, implementation and management processes and to demand accountability in the use of public resources in service delivery and local development.

The citizens are not aware of their right to and do not therefore demand accountability from public servants and leaders that they themselves elect into office. This weak involvement of citizen, the lack of citizens’ ownership and the critics faced to service delivery when combined with silence and failures of accountability, can lead to pervasive corruption, poor and elite-based decision-making and unresponsive public actors, preventing citizens from fully enjoying their human rights.

Presented by Ir Jules Kazungu
23 February 2011
Kigali Rwanda
Tel(+250) 788589224

projet de renforcement des capacités à la scolarisation et apprentissage des métiers professionnels des enfants historiquement marginalisés

Les enfants constituent une grande proportion de la population rwandaise et s’élève à plus de 60% de la population totale du pays. Pour atteindre un développement durable la jeunesse et les enfants en particulier sont devenus un thème spécifique à intégrer transversalement dans toutes les interventions et planification de développement socio économique.

Cependant les enfants historiquement marginalisés naissent dans les familles très pauvres et dépourvues et de ce fait ,ils subissent de temps en temps l’auto stigmatisation ,les enfants ne fréquentent presque pas même l’école primaire ou catégoriquement certains sont déscolarisés et les autres ne sont pas scolarisés ce qui pousse toute les générations de la population historiquement marginalisée à être plongée dans un cercle vicieux de pauvreté persistante et chronique ainsi que une certaine forme d’ignorance aigue d’où la notion de développement et bien être restent un rêve chez elle.

Cette problématique épineuse entraîne à son tour les conséquences notoires telles que la délinquance juvénile, la contamination du VIH/SIDA, consommation des drogues, banditisme et au défaut cette jeunesse constitue la main d’œuvre gratuite devant les travaux lourdes ou avec rémunération insignifiante pour la population locale.
En effet la simple raison que la population historiquement marginalisée ne procède pas à la scolarisation de leurs enfants, il est très difficile pour elle de se développer sur le plan multisectoriel malgré de nombreux efforts planifiés déployés par le gouvernement Rwandais et ses partenaires en vue de l’amélioration des conditions socio-économiques des populations historiquement marginalisées. L’autre constat amer est que la jeunesse historiquement marginalisée déscolarisée et non scolarisée n’est pas outillée pour l’apprentissage des métiers professionnels ou à l’entreprenariat des activités génératrices de revenus afin de pouvoir contourner le problème de pauvreté qui pèse lourdement sur elle.

Cette problématique est très prononcée chez la population historiquement marginalisée de 11Secteurs qui compose le district de Nyabihu de la province du Nord qui enregistre au total 240 ménages de la population historiquement marginalisée dont les enfants se heurtent sérieusement à un problème de déscolarisation et d’abandon scolaire.
C’est dans ce cadre de contribuer à la résolution du présent problème et promouvoir le développement socio-économique durable de la population historiquement marginalisée que GLCPD a conçu le présent projet.

Le projet consiste d’une part à la mobilisation des parents à l’importance de l’éducation des enfants future population de demain, appui à la scolarisation en matériels et équipements et d’autres part à l’apprentissage des métiers professionnels tels que la menuiserie et la couture. Enfin les apprentis seront appuyés à s’organiser en coopératives pour pouvoir bénéficier les équipements et matériels de base afin de pouvoir monter leurs propres entreprises.
Pour atteindre des résultats satisfaisants, le suivi évaluation et l’appui accompagnement des bénéficiaires seront régulièrement privilégiés.

Turning pet plastic waste into a resource for sustainable environment management in Rwanda

Efforts towards sustainable economic growth are underway and include government policy is to modernize resources to improve productivity and reduce pressure of environment. Environmental health is aimed at developing and maintaining a clear, safe and pleasant physical in all human settlement, to promote the social, economic and physical well-being of all sections of the population.

Waste water and solid waste management in Rwanda takes different forms: from public toilets to selected area based selected area based sewerage management plants.

Plastic waste has been a major problem in most developing countries causing a number of environmental problems due to their nature of being non biodegradable. The biggest problem faced with plastic waste management is poor disposal of plastic waste. Plastics impact the environment through all stages of their existence from manufacture, to processing, to utilization and disposal. It is worthwhile to note that more of the plastics are disposed of in the environment more than what is removed from the environment.
Paper project Ir Jules kazungu, Executive Secretary GLCPD

Great Lakes Center for Culture, Peace and Development : Agroforestry role

Integration of woody perennials in the farming systems to improve land productivity through conservation of soils, nutrients and biodiversity to augment natural resource conservation, restoration of ecological balance, alleviation of poverty and to mitigate risks of weather vagaries.
1.Agroforestry systems for improving resource productivity.
Improvement and mass multiplication of elite plants of suitable agroforestry woody
perennials
2Ecosystem based approach for agroforestry development with focus on watershed.
3. Agroforestry for bioremediation and carbon sequestration.
4. Agroforestry for livelihood support and employment avenues.
5.Dissemination of technologies; offering training and consultancy.

GLCPD OBJECTIVES

A.To undertake basic and applied research for developing and delivering technologies based on sustainable agroforestry practices for farms, marginal land and wastelands in different agroclimatic zones in India.

B.To provide training in (a) research methodologies and (b) use and application of technologies
developed, at various levels.
C.To develop technological packages of different agroforestry practices for various agroclimatic
zones for transfer to farm, field and wastelands.
D. To act as repository of information on the subject.
E. To collaborate with relevant national and international agencies for achieving the mandate.
F.To provide consultancy.