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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

Bioregional EDEs for Africa

    Description
    Description
    Bafut Ecovillage Community Education Center is an African Climate Reality Project using Intentional Youth Entrepreneurship workcamps and Permaculture farm as Center for Appropriate Technologies.Farming for Bafut people is not merely an activity that generates income but rather a way of life which strengthens our identity, communal action, steadfastness in finding climate adaptation solutions and transition to resilience. Bafut Ecovillage supported by GEN International and LUSH has become BWC’s youth employment strategy, support measures for entrepreneurship for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals.
    Expected Impact

    Social Inclusion is our key tenet for a Sustainable Development plan as rural communities have often been left behind in our country development plans. Through a mix of social and technological outreach, we will identify and localize community needs and all stake holders aware of the Agenda along with our national development plans, we youth best placed to drive effective implementation will be empower in rural communities. GENAFrica Network has members throughout Africa active in rural community development many of whom are youth leaders. CBOs will work together and share their networks with each other this will substantially increase the impact in rural community development.Our goal in the implementation plan is to empower African rural communities to drive the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through youth-led collaborative initiative that informs effective implementation , monitoring and follow-up and, and advocacy campaigns By working together we believe this road map will work.

    Capacity

    Our arrangements will start with forming networks of gender balanced, committed, and country focused teams supporting co-operation and partnerships in implementing SDGs in rural communities.Identifying community based SDG priorities in capacity according to agreed criteria and indicatorsCreate a platform on programme partnership of trainings on SDGs youth-led initiatives.Integrate capacity building through SDG programme mentorship for youth-led organisations and initiatives and conduct community wide initiatives to create awareness, translating SDGs into local languages and into local experiences and activities. that communities can relate to.together we will then identify together with the rural communities what issue is a priority to them in relation to SDGs.Use radio to reach as many people as possible in rural communities, collaborate with stakeholders locally, regionally and globally, ensure an open policy where input from all people at the community is valued, train teams on proposal writing and grant applications, train the trainers; equip the CBOs' youth leaders with skills that they can transfer to the rural communities

    Partners
    Bafut council Community-driven plan Ecovision2020/ Partnership on Local Governments for Sustainability ICLEI and Durban Climate Adaptation Charter Bafut
    Bafut Palace Palace Restoration UNESCO World Heritage Center Bafut
    LUSH High Value Agriculture Products/International YouthCamp UK/Canada
    Global Ecovillage GENInternational GENAfrica/ NextGENAfrica Projects

    Ndanifor Gardens UK Trust Stipends for volunteers
    Gaia Trust Excellence Award
    Gaia Education Sustainability Accreditation
    Community University Partnerships Linking Help Desk

    Goal 13

    Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

    Goal 13

    13.1

    Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

    13.1.1

    Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

    13.1.2

    Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

    13.1.3

    Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

    13.2

    Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

    13.2.1

    Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

    13.2.2

    Total greenhouse gas emissions per year

    13.3

    Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

    13.3.1

    Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment

    13.a

    Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

    13.a.1

    Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025

    13.b

    Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities


     

    13.b.1

    Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

    20 of communities that are helping to achieve the SDGs in a holistic integrated manner.
    20 h ecovillage communities that have a net negative carbon footprint
    An exemplary model for how small, rural and impoverished rural communities can become as sustainable as possible
    Thousands of people of all ages that have learned about and are adopting more sustainable ways of living lightly on our planet home
    Staff / Technical expertise
    social marketing
    Financing (in USD)
    12.000
    In-kind contribution
    Volunteers
    In-kind contribution
    Mentoring
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    False
    This initiative does not yet fulfil the SMART criteria.
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    Timeline
    01 January 1970 (start date)
    01 January 1970 (date of completion)
    Entity
    Better World Cameroon , Business and Partnerships
    SDGs
    Geographical coverage
    Bafut, North West Region, Cameroon
    Countries
    Cameroon
    Cameroon
    Contact Information

    Joshua Konkankoh, Director