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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 […]
Sustainable Water Partnership Newsletter February 2018
As climate change and variability produce erratic water conditions near Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake, locals are struggling to adapt. The Sustainable Water Partnership is here to help. Featured in this issue: Staying Afloat SWP Launches New Toolkits Valuing Kenya’s Forests
SUCCESS STORY: Red Hot Success
The USDA-funded Pakistan Agriculture Development (PAD) project, implemented by Winrock International, works with growers of tomatoes, red chilies, bananas and dates in Pakistan’s Punjab and Sindh provinces to increase their incomes. The project accomplishes this through a combination of strategic interventions, including the introduction of modern technologies, access to higher value markets and increased availability […]