Karra Mazada Weyna Albarka Tchire (Success of Karra Community from the Sun)
Climate and Sustainable Development Action Club (CSDAC)
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Civil society organization
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Description
The first phase of this initiative is being implemented in Karra community, Dosso, Niger. The main objective is to provide electricity to the community using Solar energy. To increase climate resilience and incomes of rural women farmers through Green energy. The community is one of the numerous communities without electricity as current electricity coverage in Niger is about 10%. Our strategy is to work with rural women who remain an evidence of climate change resilience to power their community entirely with solar energy. In this current phase of the initiative which runs from 2023 to 2024, we have identified some 40 women farmers and 35 other women, 25 of which have been trained in Agro-processing and 10 trained in marketing strategies. some 30 youth have also been trained in solar technology and drip irrigation system deployment. The objective of this phase is to build the capacities of these women and youth to increase their productivity and incomes. A solar powered irrigation system has also been provided to the women farmers on a three hector farm land secured for them for an initial 4 years. This strategy allows community members to have a real sight of how they can generate power from a "free" resource. The methodology is including the women in the planning through to the implementation of the different phases of the initiative. Through this, we have been able to identify more opportunities within the community as we roll out the phase of the initiative. This methodology ensures community ownership, control and leadership for women. The second phase of the initiative will run in 2024 and aims to put these women and youth into a functional savings cooperative. A financial model will be developed to help enhance their incomes and group governance. the financial model will guide the women to acquire at least 20 solar panels each year. This will enhance their sense of ownership. Monitoring and support visits will be enhances. The third phase will be rolled out from 2025 to 2028. This phase will build more partnerships with development partners, enhance knowledge sharing. The partnerships will focus on governance and acquisition of more solar panels. CSDAC will collaborate with more partners to also purchase more solar panels and equipment in readiness for the final phase. During this phase more capacity building and refresher trainings will be conducted to the solar technicians and women. By 2029, it is envisioned that the initiative and the women would have mobilized 300 solar panels. The final phase will be implemented in 2030. A mini off-grid solar system will be established to provide lightening for basic household use such as charging mobile phones, powering lamps, providing lights for school children and provide potable water. The community members will provide internal monitoring. Periodic monitoring and results sharing durbars will be organized to ensure collective participation in the progress of the initiative. The initiative will facilitate a strengthened collaboration between the community and local government authority to ensure efficient running of the project.
This initiative improve climate change and renewable energy awareness among community members. It will reduce poverty and improve gender equality as it aims to increase incomes. With increased incomes, women can contribute actively to household economy and decision making. The initiative is an innovative way of increasing access to clean and affordable energy in a sustainable way, water for productive use and access to productive resources like land. The initiative will enhance education in the community as there will be electricity for pupils to learn at night. The initiative will as well provide decent and sustainable jobs to the youth that are trained in solar technology, women that are trained in marketing strategies, agro-processing and climate smart farming techniques. The initiative also creates opportunities for partnerships to be established in the achievement of the objectives with have linkages with other SDGs.
- Community entry protocols done.
- Beneficiary group (75 women and 30 youth) selected.
- community engagement of women beneficiaries on baseline and establish priorities.
- 3 hectors of land secured
- Trained 25 women in agro-processing
- Trained 40 women in climate smart farming techiniques
- Trained 30 youth ion solar technology and deployment for irrigation.
- Trained 30 youth in drip irrigation technology
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SDGS & Targets
Goal 1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.1
By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.1.1
Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographical location (urban/rural)
1.2
By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.2.1
Proportion of population living below the national poverty line, by sex and age
1.2.2
Proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.3
Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
1.3.1
Proportion of population covered by social protection floors/systems, by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work-injury victims and the poor and the vulnerable
1.4
By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
1.4.1
Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services
1.4.2
Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land, (a) with legally recognized documentation, and (b) who perceive their rights to land as secure, by sex and by type of tenure
1.5
By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.5.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
1.5.2
Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)
1.5.3
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
1.5.4
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
1.a
Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.a.1
Total official development assistance grants from all donors that focus on poverty reduction as a share of the recipient country's gross national income
1.a.2
Proportion of total government spending on essential services (education, health and social protection)
1.b
Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
1.b.1
Pro-poor public social spending
Goal 2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.1
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.1.1
Prevalence of undernourishment
2.1.2
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
2.2
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.2.1
Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age
2.2.2
Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)
2.2.3
Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)
2.3
2.3.1
Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size
2.3.2
Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status
2.4
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.4.1
Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture
2.5
By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
2.5.1
Number of (a) plant and (b) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities
2.5.2
Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinction
2.a
2.a.1
The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures
2.a.2
Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector
2.b
Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.b.1
Agricultural export subsidies
2.c
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
2.c.1
Indicator of food price anomalies
Goal 7
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
7.1
By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
7.1.1
Proportion of population with access to electricity
7.1.2
Proportion of population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technology
7.2
7.2.1
Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption
7.3
7.3.1
Energy intensity measured in terms of primary energy and GDP
7.a
7.a.1
International financial flows to developing countries in support of clean energy research and development and renewable energy production, including in hybrid systems
7.b
By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support
7.b.1
Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing countries (in watts per capita)
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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
SDG 14 targets covered
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Deliverables & Timeline
Climate change awareness and use of solar energy for production
Increased incomes
150 solar panels acquired
Mini solar off-grid system constructed
Resources mobilized
Partnership Progress
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Entity
Region
- Africa
Geographical coverage
Other beneficiaries
75 women from Karra community 30 youth (females and males) from Dosso Region
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Contact Information
Lawrence Nyarko, General Coordinator
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