Improving adaptation capacities for vulnerable households in Nyamagabe District

  • Country: Rwanda
  • Organisation: Initiative pour la Promotion de la Famille et du Genre (IPFG)
  • Support area: Adapting to the impacts of climate change
  • IKI funding: 119,385 euros
  • Project start: 01/10/2022
  • Project end: 30/09/2024
  • Website: www.ipfg-rwanda.com

The Nyamagabe district in the south of Rwanda is impacted by frequent droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events. Therefore, identifying and implementing targeted measures to adopt to climate change, is essential for local communities. The local organisation Initiative pour la Promotion de la Famille et du Genre executed a project funded by IKI Small Grants to support vulnerable people to adapt and improve their circumstances. It enabled 300 households to tackle the negative impacts of climate change through provision of climate change related trainings and materials in agroforestry.

GALLERY

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The IKI Small Grants project supported 300 vulnerable households in adapting to climate change. The project offers trainings and materials for agroforestry, water tanks and irrigation systems.
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The communities get support to develop, implement and monitor local adaptation and landscape restoration action plans. Action plans developed in the project were presented to different stakeholders.
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The project helps households to install water tanks to harvest rainwater. The beneficiaries receive a training on the maintenance of water tanks and rainwater management.
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The project ensures that community members are trained and take proactive measures to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change, by providing trainings on natural resource management and adaptation measures. It further includes trainings on climate change vulnerability, risks mapping and analysis for the elected water and environmental committees.

CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

IKI Small Grants supported IPFG in their organisational capacity development through:
• Fundraising activites
• Training on gender and climate change mainstreaming in project planning and activities
• Evaluation and development of a strategic plan for 5 years
• Training on participatory natural resource management
• Development of IPFG’s IT and data protection policy

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ABOUT THE ORGANISATION

IPFG

IPFG is a non-governmental organization founded in 2002 based in Nyamagabe District in Rwanda. All members are concerned about the welfare and full development of the family based on gender equality and the participation of men and women in all programmes aimed at strengthening fairness and democracy. Its mission is to promote and reinforce complementarity between man and woman and to encourage their participation in actions aimed at social and economic development.