November 01, 2024

 

This intervention aimed to enhance coherent cross-sectorial actions towards informing coherent policy implementation pathways for food and livelihood security and buttress the realization of different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Accordingly,

 

The fuel briquettes manual aims to equip young people and the informal sector in general with knowledge of fuel briquettes making from waste and their marketing. This manual has been tested against communities operating through the structure of communal cooperatives in Uganda – the CBS PEWOSA – where members, including young people,

One of the key aspects of the EBAFOSA Innovative Volunteerism work is to clearly showcase impact being undertaken and felt at scale. This is not something that can happen overnight but is a build-up over time. This build-up is divided into stages or tiers, with one tier building on from the other.

The Why of Innovative Volunteerism

To bring impact to scale under the changing climate, we need innovative approaches that leverage the most significant asset of societies, human capital. Africa’s biggest asset is its youthful population, over 60% of the entire population. This biggest asset needs to be leveraged to drive climate action solutions that create wealth opportunities for the youth and the entirety of society.

Studies show that in the past 30 years, only about 5% of investments in agricultural research and education has been directed towards preventing postharvest losses (PHLs) in Africa.

Uganda’s largest employer is the agriculture sector, which provides livelihoods for up to 70% of the country’s working population. The sector contributes up to 22% of GDP and 34% of export earnings. The country’s national development blueprint, the 3rd National Development Plan (NDP3), a derivative of the vision 2040, underscores the agriculture sector as the critical pathway to enhance the productivity of Uganda’s economies to middle-income status.

COVID-19 has become an unprecedented and unpredictable global crisis. On 21st March 2020, Uganda reported its first COVID-19 case and this triggered its first lockdown. According to Daily Monitor on June 18, 2021, President Museveni ordered a 42 day lockdown to reduce the rising cases of COVID-19 as the country experienced the second wave of the pandemic1.

Women constitute approximately 50 percent of the agricultural work force in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet they manage plots that are 20 to 30 percent less productive on average. The country-specific extent and determinants of this gender gap are of major importance as a source of income inequality and aggregate productivity loss1.

Globally more than 2.6 billion people still lack access to clean cooking, and household air pollution, primarily from cooking smoke, is responsible for roughly 2.5 million premature deaths each year1. In the past, progress has been very limited compared to electricity access.

Solar drying is one of the most efficient, and cost-effective, renewable, and sustainable technologies to conserve agricultural products in sub-Saharan African countries including Uganda.

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This manual is intended for use in upscaling application of Ecosystems Based Adaptation (EBA) in a market driven approach in Uganda and many other African countries. As such, four fundamental aspects have guided its development.

Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change (Seddon et al., 2016). According to Global EBA Fund, Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EBA) harnesses the power of nature to increase the resilience of communities against the escalating impacts of climate change. 

Solar dryer technology can be utilized in small-scale food processing industries for producing hygienic, high-quality food products. Solar dryers use solar radiation to heat air that is used to remove moisture from material placed inside the enclosure.

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Solar drying technology of agri-produce enhance reduction of post-harvest losses in most developing countries. Therefore, solar dryers reduce moisture contents to a level that prevents deterioration within a period of time regarded as the safe storage period. The main aim of this study is to review the efficiency of solar dryer compared to open sun drying.

Agriculture is the core sector of the Ugandan economy and the primary employer, engaging up to 70% of the working population. The sector contributes up to 22% of GDP and 34% of export earnings. The sector is also tagged as the centre of future growth in the country’s high-level development blueprints.

This programme was to achieve three aspects coordinated by the Nasarawa State University at Keffi (NSUK) and the UNEP EBAFOSA initiative on “Supporting coherent policy implementation to catalyze food & livelihood security in Africa”. 

Context and Rationale of EBAFOSA

Escalating nexus challenges of food insecurity, poverty, high youth unemployment, low labour productivity, energy poverty, environmental degradation, and climate change - which compounds these challenges – across Africa hampers the continent’s progress towards actualizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Agenda 2063. Ensuring efforts to combat climate change in implementing the Paris Agreement climate change unlock opportunities to accelerate the socio-economic transformation and unlock multiple SDGs is a leading priority for Africa.

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#Cameroon has set forth ambitious targets to reduce emissions by 35% by 2030, relative to the 2010 baseline. This is only eight years away & urgency for transformative but accessible investments that can be applied by ordinary citizens of the informal sector that forms up to 90% of the working population is critical. Accordingly, one of the sectors targeted by the country is waste - where the country aims to establish composting units in 10 regions, enhance methane capture from landfills etc., where composting pits will reduce the amount of organic waste that ends up in landfills to cause methane emissions. Accordingly, through Innovative Volunteerism, skilled young people & young at heart have been engaged to retool their skills & engage in compost production. They have worked with local communities, trained them in waste categorization, clustered them into groups of cooperatives for traceability. They engage in collecting organic waste & supplying it to compost sites for processing. The resultant compost manure is marketed to generate income & also applied to farms to enhance yields. Through this Innovative Volunteerism approach, the community is investing at their level in helping Cameroon actualize its climate commitments, even as they create enterprise opportunities for themselves. This is how we provide 90% of economic players opportunities to invest in climate action from an enterprise dimension that has market longevity. Congratulations boma Mohammed chi Chinelum Dilivio Boma You show that when a structured approach is leveraged and guidance provided, transformational #climateaction can be driven for the collective benefit of the communities. This is the power of #EBAFOSA #innovativevolunteerism Matthias NAAB United Nations Youth Association of Cameroon (UNYA-Cameroon)

we fabricate, mobilize and sell various classes of clean energy systems & services to power various levels of agro-value added processes #InnovativeVolunteerism

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ADOPTION OF AFFORDABLE AND EFFICIENT DOMESTIC FUEL BRIQUETTES TO AVERT DEGRADATION OF FOREST ECOSYSTEM : THE CASE OF UGANDA

Uganda has set timeline to achieve several Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) actions sooner. Uganda seeks to mainstream climate resilience across sectors and develop early warning systems and robust monitoring systems.

UGANDA LEVERAGING CLIMATE ACTION SOLUTION OF SOLAR DRYERS TO DRIVE ADAPTATION NDC’S IMPLEMENTATION: THE CASE OF UGANDA

Given the dominance of agriculture as a source of livelihood, agro-industrialization driven using climate action solutions offers a great opportunity for Uganda and Africa to embark on its long-term aspiration of transitioning into a modern industrial economy.

THE UNEP NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS  (NDC) ACTION PROJECT: ENABLING REALISATION OF SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES IN GHANA THROUGH CLIMATE CHANGE

Ghana contributes between 0.05–0.13% of global emissions. A negligible amount by all accounts. But just as is the case with the rest of the continent, this country stands out for its vulnerability. The Notre Dame Vulnerability index rates Ghana as highly vulnerable, with a low readiness score. The country is ranked the 68th most vulnerable and 81st least ready country. Increasing community incomes stands out as the core of resilience building.

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