SustainableEnergy actively influences all spheres of society to gradually adjust towards becoming fully sustainable where public involvement and initiatives are respected and democratic principles promoted.
Increasingly the climate change agenda influences the work of SustainableEnergy combining it with energy and resource management. A fundamental principle of SustainableEnergy’s work for a sustainable society in Denmark as well as abroad is that this cannot be achieved by only applying a set of appropriate technological innovations. The transformation towards societies based on renewable energy sources must be built around local democracy processes, deep rooted community ownership and a strong public participation.
Our points of departure when engaging with international development assistance are found within the environment and renewable energy sectors. Within these two sectors on-going climate changes and their impacts on already vulnerable communities and local authorities will form the back-drop of all programming and used as a leverage to work with local governance and democracy challenges.
SustainableEnergy is engaged in both rural and urban areas. Intervention in rural areas within for instance sustainable natural resource management cannot ignore increasing demands for fuel wood and charcoal from underprivileged populations in the cities. The continued fast growth of the urban population and following expanding environmental problems therefore indirectly impacts surrounding rural areas and livelihood opportunities there. In several of SustainableEnergy’s target areas placed in the proximity to urban centres rural farmland and its natural resources is under immense pressure.
The transformation towards societies based on renewable energy sources must be built around local democracy processes, deep rooted community ownership and a strong public participation.
Our points of departure when engaging with international development assistance are found within the environment and renewable energy sectors. Within these two sectors on-going climate changes and their impacts on already vulnerable communities and local authorities will form the back-drop of all programming and used as a leverage to work with local governance and democracy challenges.
SustainableEnergy is engaged in both rural and urban areas. Intervention in rural areas within for instance sustainable natural resource management cannot ignore increasing demands for fuel wood and charcoal from underprivileged populations in the cities. The continued fast growth of the urban population and following expanding environmental problems therefore indirectly impacts surrounding rural areas and livelihood opportunities there. In several of SustainableEnergy’s target areas placed in the proximity to urban centres rural farmland and its natural resources is under immense pressure.
Programmes
Our programme engagement spans from a hands-on approach with rural natural resource management committees in Mozambique to influencing national policy implementation around the Climate Change agenda in East Africa.
Partners
We collaborate with more than 30 partners in 5 countries. Our partners are chosen to represent a wide variety of skills and networks.
Approach
We believe in facilitating local and national civil society collaborations. Programmes are carried out through civil society organisations reaching out to both the private sector actors and government institutions.
Latest programmes and projects
Nampula Integrated Rapid Response, NAIRARE
Start date: November 16, 2020
End date: May 16, 2021
Funded by: CISU, DERF
Budget: DKK 610,308
Nampula Integrated Rapid Response, NAIRARE
To respond to the growing humanitarian crisis in the northern region of Mozambique as a result of the escalation of the conflict in Cabo Delgado, where over 300,000 people are now displaced, SustainableEnergy and its local partner Livaningo, through this Integrated Rapid Response project aims to save lives and address protection needs through the restoration of livelihoods of resettled IDPs Households and improve cohesion between hosting and IDPs communities in Nampula, Meconta District. Agriculture in emergency activities will target a specific and well-defined group of 300 IDP households who have been reallocated to permanent accommodation centres and have a plot of land allocated to them. In contrast, social cohesion activities will target both the resettled group and the surrounding hosting communities. The intervention is coordinated with the relevant humanitarian aid sector clusters in Nampula Province.
Project documents:
Nampula-Integrated-Rapid-Response-NAIRARE.pdf
Displaced pastoralist children in Endo Marakwet County, East
Start date: July 1, 2020
End date: July 1, 2023
Funded by: Danmarksindsamlingen
Budget: DKK mill. 1,7
Displaced pastoralist children in Endo Marakwet County, East
Nomads and farmers in the western part of Kenya have for decades been in dispute with each other over land and cattle issues. During the past decades the conflict has intensified and today armed cattle raids are common. Frequently the results are displaced families with the children paying the highest price.
The many weapons in circulation after the war in Sudan and the protracted civil war in Somalia have contributed to the escalation of the conflict. Climate change has resulted in less rainfall and desertification and has further reduced the fodder available for the cattle. Increasing competition over land available for grazing has further aggravated the on-going conflict.
Refugee children must be secured schooling
To escape from a dangerous environment, whole families or the children alone flee their homesteads and seek down to more peaceful areas south where they temporarily live with relatives or acquaintances. Children are often not offered schooling in the new area and therefore, the project will work for the children to be re-enrolled into school.
Dialogue and conflict management
The project effort is focused in Elgeyo Marakwet County, where it addresses conflict mediation to prevent and counteract the unrest. The aim is to facilitate a continued constructive dialogue between the parties involved in the conflict. This include representatives of the various ethnic groups, authorities and police.
The project is expected to have a positive impact on approximately 4.000 children.
Victoria Institute for Research on Environment and Development, (VIRED) is the partner responsible for the implementation of the project.
Project documents:
Displaced-pastoralist-children-in-Endo-Marakwet-County-East-Final.pdf
View of the project area
Natural Resource Management Committees in Sofala – Governance, Rights and Climate Change
Start date: January 1, 2020
End date: December 31, 2022
Funded by: CISU / Danida
Budget: Included in the Decentralisation and Climate Change programme
Natural Resource Management Committees in Sofala – Governance, Rights and Climate Change
The programme gives continuation to a first phase lasting from 2017-19 where 15 Natural Resource Management Committees (NRMC’s) in two districts of the Sofala Province had their capacities raised and where the experiences from the field were used to engage authorities in addressing some of the pitfalls in the implementation of pieces of legislation meant to aid the operations of the NRMCs.
In this phase, another 10 committees have been added from a neighbouring district. The new committees will be taken through a more conceptualized capacity building programme and the advocacy efforts will be continued with the ambition to now also include climate change issues at district and provincial levels. Furthermore, the programme will invest resources in bolstering and compiling the model and knowledge creation that has taken place during the years that NRMC’s in Sofala Province have been supported by the consortium of partners. This aspect was already an integrated part of the objective of the first phase but is now given full attention. Hence, the objective remains the same as during the first phase, namely:
Knowledge is generated about the ability, effectiveness and efficiency of national and local tax and other revenue mechanisms from sustainable natural resource exploitation at community level to strengthen these and their adaptive capacities to ongoing climate changes. The knowledge is used to increase incomes in targeted communities and influence duty bearers to improve accountable and transparent distribution of benefits thereby contributing to higher community resilience
The NRMC consortium of partners uses a web-blog to disseminate programme news and findings.
The organisations taking part in the NRMC component are:
Project documents:
6.2-Mozambique-Component-description.pdf
Meeting to assess the situation of gender in the Natural Resources Management Committee of Tambarara community