Skills Development for Climate Action (SDCA)

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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

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 and staff have trained local communities, trained trainers (ToTs) who have trained others, and included professional staff at local government level.

A new approach will be developed while training.

The intervention will help JEEP to up-date, develop and start practising new methods and business models for individual workshops and activities at JEEP Folkecenter to make them sustainable, economically and practically accessible for training of more and new groups as well as applicable in rural and urban communities where JEEP´s beneficiaries and others need them.

The five training units

All five units include advocacy training, new developments, business management, and training manuals.

Unit 1) Clean cooking training and production	Institutional stoves, mud stoves, domestic portable energy saving stoves, energy saving ovens, clean cooking innovation, biogas and fireless cooking baskets
Unit 2) Solar technologies training and testing	LED lights training and production, solar generator, solar cooker and dryer, solar water pumping and solar heaters
Unit 3) Briquette training and production unit	Briquette mass production unit, briquette training and briquette marketing and sells
Unit 4) Waste management	Training garbage sorting and plastic waste collection, waste recycling, plastic waste cleaning and shredding
Unit 5) Tree nursery and gardening	Seed selling (collecting and drying of seeds), tree nursery (training, raising and selling of tree seedlings), gardening (kitchen gardening, keyhole garden, garden in a sack) and herbal garden.

PROJECT PARTNERS

The project is supported by CISU – Civil Society in Development