Skills Development for Climate Action (SDCA)

PROJECT DETAILS

Project partners:Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy (project coordinator)
Joint Energy and Environment Projects (JEEP Folkecenter)
Project countries:Denmark, Uganda
Type of project:Capacity building
Funding:CISU – Civil Society in Development

PUBLICATIONS

SDCA brochure DanishDownload
SDCA brochure EnglishDownload

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

The purpose of this intervention is to broaden the reach of JEEP Folkecenter as an organization, ensuring that its impact extends to a larger number of beneficiaries in impoverished rural and urban communities requiring environmental conservation initiatives and green business practices.

This will be achieved by equipping trained trainers and members with new skills and by incorporating new categories of participants, including young entrepreneurs, students from vocational/technical institutions, universities, and teacher colleges, to become trainers themselves. Concurrently, efforts will be made to enhance existing workshop facilities, refine training modules, and optimize business models for activities conducted at JEEP Folkecenter and in districts where JEEP operates, alongside other NGO/Community-based organizations programs focused on energy and environmental initiatives.

The purpose of the intervention is mainly

  1. To train new and more groups of trainers
  2. To develop and upscale JEEP Folkecenter’s five training units with matching training materials to become viable to house the growing need of JEEP’s environmental and energy training.

SDGs IN THE PROJECT

SDG 1
SDG 7
SDG 10
SDG 13
SDG 17

The challenges to be adressed

The challenge to be addressed is reaching the growing number of people in need because of climate change, poverty and lack of sustainable solutions.

Uganda´s National Climate Plan (Nationally Determined Contribution) notes that the majority of the Uganda population is rural-based and has limited access to the electricity grid. If they have access they cannot pay the cost. As a result, they depend on biomass for basic household energy needs. The vast majority of the direct combustion of fuel for energy use in the residential sector was almost 99,5 % in 2005, and the situation does not seem to have shifted much since then, though JEEP members an