SHE LEADS GREEN ACTION PROGRAM 

She Lead Green Action Program Summary

Young women and girls have a vital role to play in green action activities such as climate change movement, and ecosystem restoration activities. Environmental Conservation Community of Tanzania (ECCT) we are thrilled to launch and coordinate the She Lead Green Action Program that empower young women and girls to take lead in green action and bridging the gender gap of knowledge, skills, and action towards environmental conservation advocacy activities.

She Lead Green Action Program focused on activities such as ending plastic pollution through recycling (income generation activity) and curbing climate change impacts through re greening coastal activities (Planting coastal trees and establishment of coastal tree nursery bed), awareness raising in coastal conservation issues. 

Through the program 25 girls and women beneficiaries acquired knowledge on best waste practice, ideas, resources, and templates for holding events that educate and engage people around ecosystem restoration and regeneration, training on developing and delivering behavior change messages in climate change communication.

Environmental Conservation Community of Tanzania (ECCT) in implementation of this program we partnered with Panda initiatives to empower young girls and women to lead and advocate for the restoration of our ecological system (forest, wetland, coastal and ocean ecosystems etc.) for creating a healthier, more equitable, and ecologically diverse world. The approach of this program we conducted two (2) training workshops for two days, , Field visit for nature outdoor activities for learning ecosystem restoration best practices, conducted one beach cleanup and tree planting along the coast of Msasani beach.

Program Objectives

• To provide training to 25 young women and girls in environmental conservation best practices such as leading small scale ecosystem nature based best practices and adaptation measures. This training enables women/ girls green growth actions and job creation from sustainable profitable uses of nature products e.g. uses of forest products, tourism, beekeeping, preparation of organic food and drinks.
• To empower 25 women and girls from different grassroots community groups to lead small scale nature based solutions to the ecosystem restoration and adaptation measures towards climate change impacts and environmental plastic pollution.
• To advocate for nature based best practices in coastal ecosystem restoration measures through Identifying native plant species coastal ecosystem, native plant species characteristics and highlighting threat to coastal ecosystem e.g. loss of habitat and invasion of alien species
• To prepare nature outdoor activities such as tour to local forest or nature regenerative farm for learning plant diversity, sustainable profitable uses of nature products e.g. uses of coastal plants in promoting healthy urban livelihood
• To conduct beach cleanup for experiential learning on how to organize beach cleanup as part of engaging the local community in environmental conservation activities and removing plastic waste from the beach. Beach cleanup activity is important to reduce beach litter in general and promote long-term behavior change which will contribute to adapting and mitigating climate change impacts.
• To inspire community urgent action and amplify widespread ecosystem restoration best practices knowledge and skills.

Program Impacts

• The program conducted two (2) workshop and trained 25 young women and girls to lead small scale ecosystem nature based best practices and adaptation measures to supercharge their green growth actions and job creation from sustainable profitable uses of nature product e.g. uses of forest products, tourism, beekeeping, preparation organic food and drinks ( juices, ice-cream) plastic recycling ( best waste practices) , gardening ( establishment of nursery trees) and composting.
• Capacity building for 25 women and girls in nature based solutions coastal ecosystem restoration measures such as how to identify native plant species coastal ecosystem, native plant species characteristics and what are the threat to coastal ecosystem e.g. loss of habitat and invasion of alien species.
• Program conducted one (1) field tour nature rejuvenation reserve in Mikocheni, where all program participants learned coastal native plant diversity, sustainable profitable uses of nature products e.g. uses of coastal plants in promoting healthy urban livelihood and maintaining sustainable ecological system.
• Through the program conducted one (1) Beach cleanup activity for experiential learning on how to organize and coordinate beach cleanup activities.
• Program involved planting trees activities, in which we managed to plant 20 coastal trees along the coast of Msasani beach.
• Provision of certificate. All program participants, who managed to attend all program sessions, at the end of the training , were awarded certificates of participation as part of recognition, endorsement and appreciation for their dedication and commitment for completing the program training.

We, as ECCT, look forward to continuously engaging with you all in empowering women and girls in leading green action and helping toward making resilience and sustainable communities in Tanzania and globally. We hope that this report will support sustainable decision-making and provoke the necessary change in closing the gender gap in environmental conservation activities.

For More details about the program photos, please click the link below for the report.

SHE LEADS GREEN ACTION PROGRAM REPORT