ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

Since 2020 to date, WN-CARD with funding support from DanChurchAid (DCA) has been supporting environmental restoration, green livelihoods, and access to safe affordable and clean energy for refugees and host communities in the refugee hosting districts of West Nile Region –Terego, Madio-Okollo and Yumbe, districts, which are home to over 515,000 South Sudan and DRC refugees. The project aims to restore the environment that comes under extreme pressure due to the influx of refugees and consequent high demand for forest products; promote green livelihood activities for both refugee and host communities through agroforestry, Community Awareness and sensitization, community dialogues, Tree growing as well as introduction and promotion of alternative clean energy sources, and fuel-efficient technologies

Photo: Tree Planting and Growing by WN-CARD and Community Members (women) as a target group in line with reducing GBV in the communities in Rhino Camp Refugee settlement in Terego District

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WN-CARD in partnership with DCA has promoted various technologies including briquettes production from agricultural wastes, fuel efficient stoves, heat retaining baskets, and affordable solar technologies. In doing so the project has contributed to peaceful co-existence between refugee and host communities via promoting initiatives such as agroforestry that benefit both refugees and host communities and reduce competition over scarce resources. The search for firewood was also one of the factors exposing women and girls to a range of protection risks including rape. WN-CARD’s intervention on access to clean and affordable energy sources, and fuel-efficient technologies, have contributed to minimize such risks.

Figure 1: Community Members participate in making Energy Saving Stoves

Figure 1: Community Members participate in making Energy Saving StovesFigure 2: Tree Nursery Bed with the participation of the Community in Arua in partnership with IFMC (Integrated Farm Management Consult)

Figure 2: Tree Nursery Bed with the participation of the Community in Arua in partnership with IFMC (Integrated Farm Management Consult)

Figure 3: The Nursery bed from which WN-CARD gets tree seedlings to be planted among the communities in partnership with IFMC in Arua and Dragon Yumbe.
Figure 3: The Nursery bed from which WN-CARD gets tree seedlings to be planted among the communities in partnership with Integrated Farm Management Consult (I.F.M.C) in the Refugee Settlement Areas of Imvepi , Omugo (Rhino Camp extension) in Arua District.
Figure 5: Plant more trees Campaign. The Yumbe District Environment Officer with one of the Volunteers near a tree which has been planted.
Figure 5: Plant more trees Campaign. The Yumbe District Environment Officer with one of the Volunteers near a tree which has been planted.
Go- green Campaign, WN-CARD and the Pupils of Ofua II ECD carried out massive awareness on Environment protection by planting trees in their school compound and joined by the Refugee Community members who also participated in the exercise

ACHIEVEMENTS

WN-CARD has carried out environmental protection within the Refugee settlement of Rhino Camp in Ofua II, through awareness creation on environmental protection and planting over 1,500 trees among the communities, especially targeting the schools, churches and groups of women.