1. Training Rural Women for Environmental, Economic and Livelihood Empowerment
Implementing Agency: The Green Belt Movement
Collaboration: New Course, wPower
Funding Agency: MacArthur Foundation

2. Purpose
To develop a “wPOWER East Africa Hub” to unlock women’s potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.
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3. Geographical Scope
The project will be focused on three high biodiversity landscapes/watersheds.
Mount Elgon - Uganda (Upper Nile watershed)
The Mau Complex and parts of Western Aberdares (Lake Victoria watersheds)
The Turkana /Omo (Cherangani water tower).
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4. Objective 1 Unlocking women’s potential as “Green Agents of Change”
women leaders
20,000 members from Community based organizations
200,000 lives within the 3 watersheds
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5. Objective 2
Build the foundation for a permanent program designed to strengthen the capacity of rural women to manage natural resources within the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace & Environmental Studies.
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6. Activites
Women Mobilization and engagement for Community Education and empowerment that will improve women’s participation and influence for environmental governance, build climate resilience, help establish cultures of peace, and improve community energy access
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7. Strategic Partnerships'
Innovative public-private-people partnerships that tackle the issues of energy security and natural resource management - U.S. Department of State’s Partnership on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Renewables
Technology providers - Barefoot Power, Nokero, and D.Light
Implementing partners - CBO’s, NGO’s and local civil service organizations
Global alliances - Clean Cookstove Alliance
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