Resources
FACT Net: A Lasting Impact
FACT Net was an international network of community groups, development workers, tree breeders, researchers, students, and farmers. These 2,000 partners in 100 countries shared an interest in the use of multipurpose trees to improve the soil, protect the environment, and enhance the well-being of farm families and other land users. Through extension, communications, and research, […]
Analytical Tools to Support Water Security Decision-Making
This supporting paper presents local decision-makers and practitioners with various tools that can be used within the context of a Water Security Improvement (WSI) process. The goal of the paper is to review the various types of tools that are used for water resources assessment and planning efforts and to summarize the appropriate usage of […]
Sustainable Water Partnership Newsletter March 2018
As mounting risks threaten the water security of the region, the health of the Mara is at stake. That’s why, this month, the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) is officially launching a three-year activity in the Mara River Basin. Featured in this issue: Why the Mara River Basin? SWP Launches Toolkit #6 Safeguarding Sustainability
A Financial Model for Cocoa Farm Rehabilitation and Income Diversification
There are several challenges in Ghana’s cocoa sector related to the link between productivity, deforestation, and land tenure. Historic government-held rights to shade trees combined with a desire to boost cocoa yields incentivized the removal of shade and promotion of sun-grown cocoa. This resulted in only short-term productivity increases, large losses in biodiversity and carbon […]
Land and Tree Tenure Innovations for Financing Smallholder Cocoa Farm Rehabilitation in Ghana
Expansion of cocoa farming is the primary driver of deforestation in Ghana’s high forest zone. Ghana is the world’s second largest cocoa producer and cocoa provides significant benefits: improved livelihoods and social welfare, family and corporate income, and foreign exchange earnings growth. However, cocoa yields and production are declining due to old and diseased trees, […]
SUCCESS STORY: Creating a professional renewable energy industry in Nigeria through training
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Project (REEEP), funded by USAID and Power Africa, seeks to improve access to renewable energy (RE) technologies, improve access to finance for RE technologies and use RE technologies to improve various sectors such as health and agriculture. One of the most important achievements of the project is its collaboration […]
Toolkit #6: Monitoring the Improvement of Water Security
Monitoring is a process of continuous assessment. It involves collecting data on the current situation (baseline) and on changes that are brought about through activities, projects and policies, or caused by socioeconomic and natural trends and events. Evaluation uses indicators to reflect on such measurable change, compare it to goals and targets, and use the […]
SUCCESS STORY: REEEP Finds Workable Funds in Tough Financial Landscape
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Project (REEEP) in Nigeria, funded by USAID and Power Africa, seeks to improve access to renewable energy (RE) technologies, improve access to finance for RE technologies and use RE technologies to improve various sectors such as health and agriculture. The project is designed to help mitigate climate change, reduce […]
REEP Resources Book
REEEP created this book in order to provide valuable resources to all stakeholders in the renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE/EE) sector in Nigeria. Our Recommended Vendor List and Pipeline of Projects will be useful to investors interested in this sector or companies looking to hire RE/EE companies for a project. Nigerian businesses will find […]