Improving livelihoods to alleviate multi-dimensional effects of poverty
Through ‘green’ jobs, entrepreneurship, finance, and responding to the following questions;
How can we create jobs and minimise unemployment in an eco-friendly way?
How can young people making an estimated 70% of the population utilise natural resources immediate to them?
How can businesses and the private sector be more conscious about nature in addition to profit?
How can the various financial packages aim at nature also known as green or climate finance be utilised well and reach the vulnerable?
How can formal and informal business development sectors also have the necessary evidence, ideas, and capacities to align with eco-interests?
These and more questions are pertinent to developing nations where most of the population are youths, and looking for ways to earn a living, and can create ‘green’ jobs and businesses if skilled, trained and supported.
At a relatively higher policy and technical level, we shall contribute to eco and climate financing issues and debates. This includes analysing, evaluating, and mapping eco-financing mechanisms, advancements, and impact where it is needed most.
While at community level we are advancing approaches that promote biorights, neighboring communities earning while conserving among others.