Sustainable Environmental management and protection programme (SEMAPP)
Sustainable Environmental management and protection programme (SEMAPP)
YADA aims to enhance food security, nutritional sta
Environment management
Environment management is defined as the management of the interaction and impact of human activities on the natural environment, through the identification and management of factors that have a stake in the conflicts that may rise between meeting social and economic needs and protecting the environment.
Environmental conservation
Environmental conservation is the protection, preservation, management, or restoration of natural environments and the ecological communities that inhabit them. It refers to all practices that pave the way for protecting the environment and natural resources on the individual, organizational as well as governmental levels. Conservation is generally held to include the management of human use of natural resources for current public benefit and sustainable social and economic utilization.
General Objective:
The purpose of this programme is to promote the use of social and economic practices, which are environmentally friendly through environmental management and conservation initiatives.
YADA Environmental management and conservation recommendations
YADA recommends the following ways or strategies to facilitate and promote environmental management and conservation for sustainable social and economic development.
Strategy #1: Conduct environment management and protection research/studies
Create awareness on environmental issues by describing the interdependence relationship between environment and social-economic issues
- Designing and conducting researches/studies intended to explore environmental issues
- Developing environment workshops and forums for discussing environmental issues
- Developing and conducting environmental campaigns and awareness to reduce environmental impacts and encourage planting of trees and seedlings, especially mangrove
Strategy#2: Provision of consultancy services in environmental management and assessment
Promote best practices in environmental management through provision of environmental management and assessment consultancy services
Strategy#3: Promote and facilitate environment conservation through innovation of environmental protection initiatives
Helps the community to understand the fragility of the environment and the importance of its protection for sustainable social and economic development.
- Designing and implementing projects aiming at increasing community awareness on environmental issues
- Promoting partnership in environment conservation projects and designing as well as the implementation of environmental campaigns
tus and improvement of self-reliance by improving household food self-sufficiency and income; increase supplies at market level through the rehabilitation and development of production systems. This program also seeks to enhance self-reliance in food security and nurturing of key communal resources and services.
It addresses poverty and vulnerability through early recovery, rehabilitation and development programs so that the target people become more resilient and less vulnerable. It also creates a choice of alternative livelihoods for enhanced access to adequate and sustainable income and resources to meet their basic needs in short term and coping with shocks in the longer-term. To improve emergency preparedness and response mechanisms YADA undertakes these interventions.
- Rehabilitate farmers’ irrigation schemes, including support to suitable management and operation systems
- Support to pastoral/agro-pastoral production systems, including semi-urban and urban livestock production
- Intervene in restocking emergency operations
- Collaborate with other agencies involved Food Security programs
- Increment of entrepreneurial ventures
- Increased levels of computer literacy levels
YADA will use innovative credit programs to stimulate micro, small and medium enterprise development and sustainable economic growth in rural communities through:
- Gender-based initiatives
- Agricultural credit and loan programs
- Revolving loan and micro-finance projects
- Market research and feasibility studies
