October 31, 2024

 

UNEP EBAFOSA/ PEWOSA INNOVATIVE FINANCING FOR CLIMATE ACTION LEVERAGING ON  COMMUNAL PEWOSA COOPERATIVE RISK SHARING FACILITY REPORT

Overview Of Access to Finance in Uganda

Access to finance is important for establishing momentum and raising ambition but countries continue to face challenges in securing the financial resources needed to achieve Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets in countries. With the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015,

Leveraging Climate Action Solutions of Solar Dryers to drive  NDCs implementation in Uganda

Overview  

Uganda is an agrarian country where farming employs more than 70% of the population. Given the dominance of agriculture as a source of livelihood, agro-industrialization driven using climate  action solutions offers a great opportunity for Uganda to embark on its long-term aspiration of  transitioning into a modern industrial economy. Uganda National Development Plan three goal of  Agro-Industrialization is to increase commercialization and competitiveness of agricultural  production and agro processing.

Training Report on the Production of biofertilizer-Nigeria

Context 

With over 70million hectares of arable land, Nigeria fertilizer demand stands at over 6 million tonnes each year,  with a reported 63% increase annually. Nigeria represents the largest fertilizer market in the ECOWAS region,  accounting for up to 45% and imports most of its fertilizer. An average of over $100 million is expended each year  importing fertilizer.

Nigeria Climate Action Solar Dryer Report

Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) implementation through enterprise actions for demand and market driven transitions to the low Emissions Development pathway in Nigeria. 

Nigeria is the 55th most vulnerable1country and the 22nd least ready country. It needs investment and  innovations to improve readiness and a great urgency for climate action. Having ratified the Paris Climate  Change Agreement,

Maiden solar dryers project in Ghana

The Ebapreneur Solutions Ghana volunteers under the Ecosystem based adaptation for food  security assembly (EBAFOSA) installed a locally manufactured solar dryer at Akortiekrom  community. Akortiekrom is a predominant farming community in Birim south District, Eastern  region of Ghana.

TRAINING REPORT ON THE PRODUCTION OF FUEL BRIQUETTES 

A Youth Training aimed on reducing the pressure of deforestation and promoting  ClimateActionPreneurship for Youth of Ghana to drive Climate Action 

Ghana, 2020 

Trainer: Simeon Akikayo (Innovative Volunteerism Actor, Nigeria) Institution: EBAPreneur Solutions, Ghana 

Offshoots from EBAFOSA Nigeria National Day of Climate Resilience Food Security and Innovative Volunteerism

On 24th November 2017, EBAFOSA Nigeria commemorated their 1st National day of Climate Resilience & innovative volunteerism with objectives to take stock of progress made in the past year and leverage it to promote EBAFOSA as the priority initiative that will accelerate socioeconomic transformation in Nigeria through the implementation of Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) commitments under the Paris Agreement.

NIGERIA UPDATES: INNOVATIVE VOLUNTEERISM INSPIRING THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF CLIMATE ACTION IN NIGERIA

Climate change threatens to affect most economies in Africa. It threatens Nigeria with a 25% per hectare reduction in crop productivity in the tomato production areas, threating livelihoods of over 200,000 farmers and an entire supply chain of enterprises they serve.

The underlying motivation of Innovative Volunteerism is inspiring purpose driven action among Africa’s sovereign capital –

Using INNOVATIVE VOLUNTEERISM to solve Africa's problems and catalyze transformational change

 

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The above is achieved through the EBAFOSA modus operandi. EBAFOSA modus operandi is premised on fomenting voluntary mutually beneficial partnerships among complementary actors to bridge policy & operational gaps towards establishing EBA based agro-industrial zones powered by clean energy with efficient linkages to markets & supply chains of products / inputs e.g. organic fertilizer, clean energy technologies etc., & services e.g. advisory, financial intermediation, standardization etc.

 

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