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.

#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)

Why EBAFOSA: achieving the UN Environment aim of scaling climate actions that enhance socioeconomic wellbeing needs stakeholders from diverse sectors – government, private sector, development partners, individual citizens – working towards the same end-goal. And to achieve this, a common and inclusive framework is needed to convene all these actors for partnerships. So EBAFOSA stands at the crossroad of multiple global change challenges - land degradation, desertification and recurrent drought and Climate Change that are the root causes of food insecurity in Africa.

UNEP EBAFOSA/ PEWOSA INNOVATIVE FINANCING FOR CLIMATE ACTION LEVERAGING ON  COMMUNAL PEWOSA COOPERATIVE RISK SHARING FACILITY REPORT

Overview Of Access to Finance in Uganda

Access to finance is important for establishing momentum and raising ambition but countries continue to face challenges in securing the financial resources needed to achieve Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets in countries. With the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015,

Leveraging Climate Action Solutions of Solar Dryers to drive  NDCs implementation in Uganda

Overview  

Uganda is an agrarian country where farming employs more than 70% of the population. Given the dominance of agriculture as a source of livelihood, agro-industrialization driven using climate  action solutions offers a great opportunity for Uganda to embark on its long-term aspiration of  transitioning into a modern industrial economy. Uganda National Development Plan three goal of  Agro-Industrialization is to increase commercialization and competitiveness of agricultural  production and agro processing.

Training Report on the Production of biofertilizer-Nigeria

Context 

With over 70million hectares of arable land, Nigeria fertilizer demand stands at over 6 million tonnes each year,  with a reported 63% increase annually. Nigeria represents the largest fertilizer market in the ECOWAS region,  accounting for up to 45% and imports most of its fertilizer. An average of over $100 million is expended each year  importing fertilizer.

Nigeria Climate Action Solar Dryer Report

Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) implementation through enterprise actions for demand and market driven transitions to the low Emissions Development pathway in Nigeria. 

Nigeria is the 55th most vulnerable1country and the 22nd least ready country. It needs investment and  innovations to improve readiness and a great urgency for climate action. Having ratified the Paris Climate  Change Agreement,

Maiden solar dryers project in Ghana

The Ebapreneur Solutions Ghana volunteers under the Ecosystem based adaptation for food  security assembly (EBAFOSA) installed a locally manufactured solar dryer at Akortiekrom  community. Akortiekrom is a predominant farming community in Birim south District, Eastern  region of Ghana.

Offshoots from EBAFOSA Nigeria National Day of Climate Resilience Food Security and Innovative Volunteerism

On 24^th November 2017, EBAFOSA Nigeria commemorated their 1^st National day of Climate Resilience & innovative volunteerism with objectives to take stock of progress made in the past year and leverage it to promote EBAFOSA as the priority initiative that will accelerate socioeconomic transformation in Nigeria through the implementation of Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) commitments under the Paris Agreement.