📋 Tender Overview
Project lead: Micaia Foundation
Partners: Gonazololo Youth Network
Location: Manica province, Mozambique
Priority Theme: Enhancing climate literacy
Timeline: January 2024 - February 2027
Vision
To ensure residents of Manica Province have a better understanding of the climate risks that they face. To develop strategies for responding to climate risks through making use of both traditional and scientific knowledge, practices and technologies, including climate-smart farming approaches, indigenous food crops, and community actions on ecosystem management.
Summary
This project is a response to the growing threat to livelihoods and well-being posed by the impact of climate change on Manica Province, Mozambique. The province is blessed with resources but burdened by demographic pressures, entrenched poverty and growing inequality, and threatened by an increasingly volatile climate.
The project will work with 30 communities across the province to highlight and support local adaptation efforts such as the planting of indigenous food crops. In addition, the project will document traditional forms of ecological governance that have been displaced by modern systems of land and resource management, and work with communities to reintegrate them. This will include youth ‘brigades’ from Chimoio, led by a local youth organisation. They will work alongside villagers, to support practical actions that can create examples of effective mitigation and deeper understanding among urban youth about the challenges faced by their rural neighbours.
