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Partnership Initiative
Project Components |
The EcoEarth Alliance is composed of the following four components:
1) BEST PRACTICES AND SUCCESS STORIES
To provide global access to information and resources with regard to developing integrated, multi-sectoral approaches to community-based sustainable development.
2) CONFERENCES AND TRAINING PROGRAMS
To provide training in sustainable development, exchange of best practise information, and opportunities for strengthening, broadening and replicating the projects being focused on.
3) REGIONALLY BASED PROJECTS LEADING TO IMPLEMENTATION
To provide models for regional development and a clear plan of action to achieve these aims.
4) FUNDING SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ADVOCACY WORK
To generate and advocate for funding mechanisms for sustainable development.
Objective
To provide access to resources, training, and capacity building at local and regional levels through an integrated, holistic, and community-based approach to development in order to overcome poverty, restore the natural environment, and meet community needs.
Why an integrated, multi-sectoral approach to community-based development?
Overcoming challenges in one area or sector of community life reinforces solutions in other areas.
Various sectors of community life are interdependent and rely on the overall health of the natural and human environment.
When people participate fully in the design and development of community based projects, they acquire a sense of ownership, pride, and investment in the project itself.
Once people within a community have been trained they can carry out and maintain improvements and share their new abilities with others.
What benefits will these projects provide?
Among other benefits of sustainable rural and ecovillage development are:
- Healthcare Services, Sanitation and Community Clinics
- Basic Education, ICT, and Education for Sustainable Development
- Ecological Restoration and Reforestation
- Water Harvesting and Supply
- Renewable forms of energy for Cooking, Lighting, and Heating Purposes
- Home and Community Gardens for Improved Diet and Nutrition
- Sense of Community Ownership, Cooperation and Pride
- Preservation of local and societal culture
- Rural Communications
- Provide enterprise and jobs through the production and maintenance of sustainable practices and implementation
- Provide opportunities for income generation through handicrafts and micro-credit
- Avoiding migration to already overly impacted urban communities
Partnership Initiative Index