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The Green Teams initiative has been involved in a myriad of activities to equip communities with knowledge and skills to address climate change in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Senegal

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At the Green Teams Initiative, the focus is to build, coordinate and support social organizations that can address their financial, social and ecological pressures. To do so, GTI focus is in three areas: Research, Policy Engagement, Business Development, and Community Engagement. 

We identify innovative and appropriate practices to build sustainable and cost effective models to curb the effects of climate change and at the same time address sustainable development goals. 

The Practices range from Policy interventions, Enterprises to community social projects. The Green Team build’s capacity of groups and individuals to work on policy, programs and practices for green social entrepreneurship in addressing the climate change crisis.

1. Research on sustainable interventions

Gathering available data and evidence on the sustainability and ecological challenges faced by communities. Our research work includes working with key actors within communities to scale available practical evidence in combatting climate change and utilizing the research for wider public knowledge., green enterprise opportunities, scalable green enterprise models, among others. Asset mapping on green jobs in Kilifi, Mombasa, Busia, and Laikipia Counties of Kenya in 2015.

2. Policy Engagement

Review of existing policies for appropriateness and/or implementation progress, as well as influence new policies that support green/eco-solutions and practices within communities. Climate Change Policy analysis of 5 Counties in Kenya and the St. Louis City in Senegal.

3. Business Development Services

Working with social organizations to offer technical and/or financial support for enterprise development using various models and approaches including incubation, training or links to strategic partners.

  • Developed a Green Teams Climate Change and Trade Training Manual
  • Training and linkages to over 3,500 young people in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Senegal on social entrepreneurship in 2013 – 2014.
  • Equipped 2,000 young entrepreneurs with solar lanterns to start their own green enterprises for both sales and distribution.
  • Equipped 1400 entrepreneurs in Kenya with water purification containers that use ultra V rays from the sun and mobile phone solar chargers.
4. Community Engagement

Building strong social organizations through capacity building and training efforts.

  • Installed 15 biogas systems in Kenya in 2015
  • Supplied 35 public schools and 5 health facilities in Kitui West, Kenya were installed with 320 watts worth of Solar Panels to support the students with light for remedial studies in improving their education outcomes.
  • Installed home solar units in Siaya County in 2013.
  • Coordinated three Smart Living Challenges – Eat, Move, Live Smart – in East Africa, in partnership with the Swedish Institute. The Smart Living Challenge is an open innovation designed to generate personal and business ideas that foster a sustainable lifestyle in urban environments. In its initial pilot, 10 Kenyans and 10 Swedes undertook to live, eat and move smart for seven days. The challenge was replicated from Nairobi, South Africa, Zambia, Hanoi, Vietnam, Warsaw, the Baltics, Brazil, to Macedonia. We are scaling up the challenge to influence wider knowledge for actions that institutions and people in urban and rural areas can undertake to sustainably adjust their lifestyles in order to cut on their carbon footprint.

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We carry out the Sustainability challenge in 4 broad ways as follows:

kholm and the Swedish Embassy in Kenya, co-created the 7 day Smart Living Challenge.
Increased individual action

We recruit more participants living in urban areas, as individuals or in organized groups, to take up the Challenge in one or all categories over several days within the same month and register lifestyle adjustments beneficial to the individual, family/household and neighbourhood/community.

Progressive Outreach

We are expanding the geographical coverage of the Challenge to various counties in Kenya to increase awareness of, sensitivity to and implementation of “smart cities/towns” based on public participation of individual and corporate citizens

Evidence-driven Engagement

We collect important data/information from the Challenge participants on facilities, processes, legal/policy framework to enable sustained lifestyle adjustments and use this to influence policy decisions

Introducing corporate-organization engagement

We are building a membership base with organizations in urban areas to green their institutions work flow process and built environment.able space.

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