Société de coopération pour le développement international SOCODEVI

Published purpose

The project focuses on conducting research and delivering capacity-building programmes to ethnic minority women and communities to support their adoption of nature-based solutions (NBS) to enhance biodiversity conservation. It would provide technical support to cooperatives, enterprises, women’s organizations to strengthen ethnic minority women’s access to financial services and trainings that promote biodiversity-friendly and climate-resilient agricultural practice in forest buffer zones. The project also supports the capacities of public and private actors to implement biodiversity conservation policies and programs supporting EM women’s rights and their climate change adaptation. This project aims to (a) strengthen the conservation of high value forests in Ha Giang and Dak Lak provinces; (b) promote sustainability of the use of biodiversity in the buffer zones of these forests via climate-smart agricultural production; and (c) improve the capacities of public and private actors in developing and implementing biodiversity policies. Project activities include: (1) conducting studies on High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) biodiversity, ethnic minority women’s traditional knowledge and nature based solutions; (2) providing gender-sensitive technical assistance to forest protection committees and community-based conservation groups; (3) implementing women-led reforestation and ecological restoration campaigns; (4) providing a training program on sustainable business management for ethnic minority women entrepreneurs; (5) establishing a transformative leadership school tailored to environmental issues for diverse ethnic minority women’s groups; and (6) implementing awareness raising and training on gender equality and positive masculinity to increase women’s participation in biodiversity decision-making process.