📋 Tender Overview
Partners: Cercle de Développement des Initiatives Féminines (CEDIF), Bureau d'appui Conseil d'Afrique pour les Réalisations (BACAR), Association pour la Promotion des Initiatives Locales (ASSOPIL)
Location: Collines province, Benin
Priority Theme: Gender equity and social inclusion
Timeline: January 2024 - February 2027
Vision
To support the resilience of local communities and ecosystems in the face of climate change in Benin through the complementary use of endogenous knowledge and modern forest-protection techniques.
Summary
Benin has mangrove forests in the south of the country as well as protected forests that are culturally sacred in its central region. In recent years, sustainable agricultural practices based upon respectful attitudes towards nature have been replaced by modern approaches that focus more on economic gains - for example, logging activities - resulting in environmental degradation and increasing climate vulnerability. In 2021, flooding in Bétécoucou, Commune of Dassa-Zoumé, prompted the community to reflect on environmental management approaches and consider traditional means of protecting the local forests.
Survie aims to establish an exchange and collaboration between scientists, local development actors and members of the local community, including youth and womens’ groups, who can work together to integrate an endogenous approach into subnational ecosystem management plans. The project will:
Document and evaluate the local environmental protection activities based on traditional African knowledge.
Support the uptake of these management plans for other communities as well as national government actors.
Support the local community in making the best use of endogenous knowledge for the preservation of the environment and biodiversity.
