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The goals are to:
- Empower communities to take ownership of development initiatives through participatory engagements;
- Promote healthy and conducive natural ecosystems and the built environment;
- Promote improved access to safe and sufficient water supply and sanitation in the region;
- Engage policy makers to ensure participatory governance that includes the contribution of the majority of the citizens;
- Develop model projects to demonstrate best practices in land and resources management; and
- Advocate for curriculum re-design in our educational institutions towards sustainable education that addresses local relatives with state-of-art technologies.
The specific objectives are to:
- Strengthen relevant institutions in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of need-driven development initiatives;
- Carry out advocacy and enlightenment campaigns on improved green urban and peri-urban environments in the region;
- Encourage communities to improve carbon sequestration through innovative tree planting campaigns;
- Encourage responsible consumption, proper waste management, and pollution control in the communities;
- Collate data on access to safe and sufficient water in communities within the region;
- Maintain an up-to-date database on water-related development partners in the region;
- Facilitate partnerships among stakeholders (governments, development partners and communities) towards provision and attainment of universal access to safe and sufficient water supply;
- Advocate for improved watershed protection and management;
- Facilitate improved access to household-level environment services;
- Advocate for voter’s right and promote stakeholders’ mobilization;
- Promote gender equity in governance;
- Propagate community-based alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques for preventing and managing conflict;
- Identify knowledge gaps between the existing curricula and sustainable education within the region;
- Determine knowledge areas for sustainable education in comparison to global best practices;
- Carry out capacity building in the theme areas for effective delivery of sustainable education; and xvi. advocate for inclusion of a broad-based stakeholders in governance issues.
