BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE & LANDOWNERS WITH CARBON SEQUESTRATION BUSINESS.
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Climate Change is the most wicked problem facing humanity and women in agriculture are the hardest hit. About 80% of women in Kenya are in agriculture making them the most affected with climate change. Women are 100% climate change illiterate in Kenya making it difficult for them to make any step to reduce climate change Risks or make alternative sources of generating incomes and food production. Women need the climate change knowledge .
A lot of Government and Community resources have been used on climate change effects in Kenya. Climate change affects all sectors of our economy including water supply, agriculture, livestock, Tourism causing unemployment to the Youths. Water is Life. Climate change has affected water supply causing Droughts .Over the past decade Kenya has experienced a severe drought. Global warming is one critical factor that has prolonged the drought and as a result, millions of Kenyans are unable to grow their crops and keep their livestock alive. Because most Kenyans rely directly or indirectly on agriculture, when severe droughts occur, many Kenyans are left to starve unless food aid prevents a famine.
In Kenya Forest degradation is a major cause of water scarcity. Another main reason for why droughts have prolonged is due to deforestation. The largest forest in Kenya, Mau, distributes water to six lakes plus eight wildlife reserves, and some 10 million people depend on its rivers for a living. However, loggers and farmers have destroyed a quarter of Mau’s 400,000 hectares. The problem with deforestation is that it almost always leads to increased runoff, which has negative implications in both the rainy as well as the subsequent dry season. According to Morgan (2009), since 2001, when 60,000 hectares of Mau forests were given to settlers, it has been hard to control the amount of forest degradation.
Could we one day afforest the world's deserts? Makarieva and Gorshkov's hypothesis suggests we might. Contrary to most conventional models, Makarieva and Gorshkov's calculations imply that forests are established in these regions, the biotic pump would be powerful enough to water them. Despite the scales, and the inevitable technical and ethical challenges, such projects may become easier to fund and to implement as carbon dioxide concentrations rise (Brovkin 2002).
Disasters have widespread implications and cascading consequences. Communities can be and have been severely impacted by all types of hazards that cause significant and lasting harm to people, property, and the environment. Improving resilience is Key in the effort to ensure that communities reduce hazard risks, mitigate impacts, and continue to thrive in the face of disasters.
Women need alternative ventures to cope with climate change effects and to compliment the traditional Agricultural activities. This project idea will therefore drive the following:
1. Increase and Promote Climate Change Education and Learning to enhance climate change literacy level by 40%.
2. Promote and Build Capacity for the beneficiaries on Regenerative Farming practices to improve the well-being of our environment and to increase soil fertility, biodiversity reduce the use of artificial fertilizers, use regenerative grazing management for Livestock, enhance water retention, and soil carbon sequestration
3. Promote Forest Carbon Stocking Agriculture ,and demonstrate the great benefits beyond Charcoal Burning , timber, and Logging for Tea Factories
4.To Promote Carbon Credit Trading participation and understanding
5.Educate on Climate Smart Agriculture and the Blue economy (Fish-Bond farming) to Mitigate on Climate Change and ensure Food security
Currently,
1. The vulnerable Communities who depend on Agriculture are Climate Change Science and Carbon Market participation illiterate making it difficult to take any steps to identify opportunities that come with Climate Change at the Counties that could enhance their adaptation and resilience.
2. Women and Landowners know about Charcoal burning, Timber, and Logging. Forest Carbon Stock marketing is unknown to the Communities who own the natural capital but missing out on the International Carbon Credit Market Participation.
3. Climate Change literacy is near zero in Kenya. They don’t know what is Climate Change? What causes the climate change? , and what opportunities that come with the climate change.
Women and Small Scale Landowners who practices agriculture in targeted Counties deserve to be trained about Sustainable farming Agriculture leading to carbon and food security. Climate Smart Agriculture and the Blue-Economy (Fish-Bond) Training will be an Option to support women faced by climate change and Carbon Credit Trading participation is a Solution. Carbon Socking is a business outside the Charcoal,
PROJECT GOAL :To create an empowered and informed community of Women and Landowners in Agriculture, Agroforestry for Carbon Credit market projects to derive economic and environmental benefits .
Main Activities:
1. Mobilize for 20 Workshops of 2000 participants for Capacity Building on Agro forestry Agriculture, Climate Smart Agriculture and the Blue-Economy to enhance greenhouse gas emission reduction/ or removal enhancement
2. Promote Agroforestry farming and plant 5000 Hass Avocado Seedlings on 100 acres farm in Nyamira North Mugirango and Borabu.
3. Plant 20,000 Trees to restore Maragoli Hills in Vihiga County in Western Kenya that has been seriously degraded.
4. Publish the 1st Climate Change Newsletter for women and Land Owners, and Share project results across the Counties and beyond.
PROJECT IMPACT :The project impact includes:
a) Society behavior change.
b) Accelerated emissions reductions that support transitions and green recovery to green economies, equitably reducing the causes and differential impacts of climate change.
c) Increased Carbon Soil and Soil Health
d) Decrease in use Synthetic fertilizer
e) Eliminated tillage increases carbon sequestration and helps reduce global warming.
f) Increased Climate Change Literacy level and the Reduction of risky behavior,
g) Increased Climate Smart Agriculture practices.
h) Increased Climate Change rights awareness among women in agriculture and Landowners.
i) Women in agriculture and landowners have better understanding of International carbon and Climate Change negotiations including COP 21 Paris Agreement.
j) Increased GHG emissions abatement projects being implemented..
k)The project contributes to national GHG determined reduction level.
Context : Africa Climate Change Summit of 4th-6th under the Chairmanship of His Excellency President DR. William Samuei Ruto concluded the summit with a clear call for increased friendly Climate Change Financing Climate, and Carbon Credit Markets literacy and knowledge to take Africa forwards which has a huge potential for Carbon Sink.
Women in Kenya are 80% in agriculture generating Forest Carbon Offset projects including through the Agro forestry Agriculture for Carbon credit markets yet they are carbon credit markets illiterates making them unable to negotiate effectively for their carbon sharing benefits.
The 2015 COP 21 Paris Climate Change Agreement was ratified with 195 Counties and Kenya is a Signatory. The Countries committed to take measures to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 20C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit such to a temperature increase to 1.50C. Kenya committed to individual NDCs, setting national targets for reducing emissions towards the common “well below 20C:” goal.
PROJECT KEY STAFF:
A project is implemented by Staff. The Key Staff includes:
1. Ms. Alice Kirambi. CPDA Executive Director .She is the able to provide overall Management and project Supervision. She is a community development expert.
2. Mr. Samuel Otenyo: Project Director. He is an expert in Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Accounting (GHG), an approved Consultant Member by CDKN, UK.
3. Ms. CPA, Metrine Mulama Project Accountant.
4. Ms.Angela Moraa: Carbon Credit Training and Research Officer.
5. Ms. Thruphena Andia. Public Relations Officer (PR)
6. Kefah Maranga – Project Coordinator
7. Ms. Joan Musembi-Maragoli Hills Planting Coordinator
8 .Ian Philip. Legal Trainer/Stakeholder Engagement & Climate change Justice.
9.Ms. Susan Emali: Seedlings Delivery Audit.
The Key Staff are competed to drive the project implementation process to its logical conclusion. They have over 3-30 years of work experience from the NGOs and the Private Sector.
The project Input:
1. Funds
2. Training Venue
3. Technical Climate Change experts.
4. Seedlings( 1). 20,000 Tree Seedling@usd1.1, (2) 5000 Hass Avocado Seedlings @usd 2.5,
5. Project Coordinating Staff .
Total Estimated Budget Breakdown for 12 Months USD=
1. Avocado Seedlings USD =12,500
2.Tree Seedling USD = 22, 000
3. Climate Change Literacy Training - 2000 USD = 36,000
4.Trainers USD= 5500
5. Misc US= 3500
Sub Total USD=79,500
Add Admin- USD =11,925
=91,425
Staff 30 % = USD 27,428
GRAND TOTAL USD 118,853
BANK DETAILS:
EQUITY BANK
HARAMBEE AVENUE BRANCH
A/C NO: 0240284400610
A lot of Government and Community resources have been used on climate change effects in Kenya. Climate change affects all sectors of our economy including water supply, agriculture, livestock, Tourism causing unemployment to the Youths. Water is Life. Climate change has affected water supply causing Droughts .Over the past decade Kenya has experienced a severe drought. Global warming is one critical factor that has prolonged the drought and as a result, millions of Kenyans are unable to grow their crops and keep their livestock alive. Because most Kenyans rely directly or indirectly on agriculture, when severe droughts occur, many Kenyans are left to starve unless food aid prevents a famine.
In Kenya Forest degradation is a major cause of water scarcity. Another main reason for why droughts have prolonged is due to deforestation. The largest forest in Kenya, Mau, distributes water to six lakes plus eight wildlife reserves, and some 10 million people depend on its rivers for a living. However, loggers and farmers have destroyed a quarter of Mau’s 400,000 hectares. The problem with deforestation is that it almost always leads to increased runoff, which has negative implications in both the rainy as well as the subsequent dry season. According to Morgan (2009), since 2001, when 60,000 hectares of Mau forests were given to settlers, it has been hard to control the amount of forest degradation.
Could we one day afforest the world's deserts? Makarieva and Gorshkov's hypothesis suggests we might. Contrary to most conventional models, Makarieva and Gorshkov's calculations imply that forests are established in these regions, the biotic pump would be powerful enough to water them. Despite the scales, and the inevitable technical and ethical challenges, such projects may become easier to fund and to implement as carbon dioxide concentrations rise (Brovkin 2002).
Disasters have widespread implications and cascading consequences. Communities can be and have been severely impacted by all types of hazards that cause significant and lasting harm to people, property, and the environment. Improving resilience is Key in the effort to ensure that communities reduce hazard risks, mitigate impacts, and continue to thrive in the face of disasters.
Women need alternative ventures to cope with climate change effects and to compliment the traditional Agricultural activities. This project idea will therefore drive the following:
1. Increase and Promote Climate Change Education and Learning to enhance climate change literacy level by 40%.
2. Promote and Build Capacity for the beneficiaries on Regenerative Farming practices to improve the well-being of our environment and to increase soil fertility, biodiversity reduce the use of artificial fertilizers, use regenerative grazing management for Livestock, enhance water retention, and soil carbon sequestration
3. Promote Forest Carbon Stocking Agriculture ,and demonstrate the great benefits beyond Charcoal Burning , timber, and Logging for Tea Factories
4.To Promote Carbon Credit Trading participation and understanding
5.Educate on Climate Smart Agriculture and the Blue economy (Fish-Bond farming) to Mitigate on Climate Change and ensure Food security
Currently,
1. The vulnerable Communities who depend on Agriculture are Climate Change Science and Carbon Market participation illiterate making it difficult to take any steps to identify opportunities that come with Climate Change at the Counties that could enhance their adaptation and resilience.
2. Women and Landowners know about Charcoal burning, Timber, and Logging. Forest Carbon Stock marketing is unknown to the Communities who own the natural capital but missing out on the International Carbon Credit Market Participation.
3. Climate Change literacy is near zero in Kenya. They don’t know what is Climate Change? What causes the climate change? , and what opportunities that come with the climate change.
Women and Small Scale Landowners who practices agriculture in targeted Counties deserve to be trained about Sustainable farming Agriculture leading to carbon and food security. Climate Smart Agriculture and the Blue-Economy (Fish-Bond) Training will be an Option to support women faced by climate change and Carbon Credit Trading participation is a Solution. Carbon Socking is a business outside the Charcoal,
PROJECT GOAL :To create an empowered and informed community of Women and Landowners in Agriculture, Agroforestry for Carbon Credit market projects to derive economic and environmental benefits .
Main Activities:
1. Mobilize for 20 Workshops of 2000 participants for Capacity Building on Agro forestry Agriculture, Climate Smart Agriculture and the Blue-Economy to enhance greenhouse gas emission reduction/ or removal enhancement
2. Promote Agroforestry farming and plant 5000 Hass Avocado Seedlings on 100 acres farm in Nyamira North Mugirango and Borabu.
3. Plant 20,000 Trees to restore Maragoli Hills in Vihiga County in Western Kenya that has been seriously degraded.
4. Publish the 1st Climate Change Newsletter for women and Land Owners, and Share project results across the Counties and beyond.
PROJECT IMPACT :The project impact includes:
a) Society behavior change.
b) Accelerated emissions reductions that support transitions and green recovery to green economies, equitably reducing the causes and differential impacts of climate change.
c) Increased Carbon Soil and Soil Health
d) Decrease in use Synthetic fertilizer
e) Eliminated tillage increases carbon sequestration and helps reduce global warming.
f) Increased Climate Change Literacy level and the Reduction of risky behavior,
g) Increased Climate Smart Agriculture practices.
h) Increased Climate Change rights awareness among women in agriculture and Landowners.
i) Women in agriculture and landowners have better understanding of International carbon and Climate Change negotiations including COP 21 Paris Agreement.
j) Increased GHG emissions abatement projects being implemented..
k)The project contributes to national GHG determined reduction level.
Context : Africa Climate Change Summit of 4th-6th under the Chairmanship of His Excellency President DR. William Samuei Ruto concluded the summit with a clear call for increased friendly Climate Change Financing Climate, and Carbon Credit Markets literacy and knowledge to take Africa forwards which has a huge potential for Carbon Sink.
Women in Kenya are 80% in agriculture generating Forest Carbon Offset projects including through the Agro forestry Agriculture for Carbon credit markets yet they are carbon credit markets illiterates making them unable to negotiate effectively for their carbon sharing benefits.
The 2015 COP 21 Paris Climate Change Agreement was ratified with 195 Counties and Kenya is a Signatory. The Countries committed to take measures to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 20C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit such to a temperature increase to 1.50C. Kenya committed to individual NDCs, setting national targets for reducing emissions towards the common “well below 20C:” goal.
PROJECT KEY STAFF:
A project is implemented by Staff. The Key Staff includes:
1. Ms. Alice Kirambi. CPDA Executive Director .She is the able to provide overall Management and project Supervision. She is a community development expert.
2. Mr. Samuel Otenyo: Project Director. He is an expert in Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Accounting (GHG), an approved Consultant Member by CDKN, UK.
3. Ms. CPA, Metrine Mulama Project Accountant.
4. Ms.Angela Moraa: Carbon Credit Training and Research Officer.
5. Ms. Thruphena Andia. Public Relations Officer (PR)
6. Kefah Maranga – Project Coordinator
7. Ms. Joan Musembi-Maragoli Hills Planting Coordinator
8 .Ian Philip. Legal Trainer/Stakeholder Engagement & Climate change Justice.
9.Ms. Susan Emali: Seedlings Delivery Audit.
The Key Staff are competed to drive the project implementation process to its logical conclusion. They have over 3-30 years of work experience from the NGOs and the Private Sector.
The project Input:
1. Funds
2. Training Venue
3. Technical Climate Change experts.
4. Seedlings( 1). 20,000 Tree Seedling@usd1.1, (2) 5000 Hass Avocado Seedlings @usd 2.5,
5. Project Coordinating Staff .
Total Estimated Budget Breakdown for 12 Months USD=
1. Avocado Seedlings USD =12,500
2.Tree Seedling USD = 22, 000
3. Climate Change Literacy Training - 2000 USD = 36,000
4.Trainers USD= 5500
5. Misc US= 3500
Sub Total USD=79,500
Add Admin- USD =11,925
=91,425
Staff 30 % = USD 27,428
GRAND TOTAL USD 118,853
BANK DETAILS:
EQUITY BANK
HARAMBEE AVENUE BRANCH
A/C NO: 0240284400610
