Candlelight has its separate natural resource management department that carries out the different environmental and livelihoods programmes. The department is run by a team of experienced staff with multi-disciplinary skills, such as community trainings, soil and water conservation, gender mainstreaming in environmental activities, climate change, sustainable agriculture, energy etc.
Major areas of focus include:
– Community trainings on climate change adaptation and environmental protection,
– Training sustainable agriculture practices with provision of seeds, hand tools and farm tillage hours to resource poor farmers.
– Training on fodder production and livestock management practices
– Soil and water conservation techniques
– Mainstreaming gender and environment
– Promoting alternative energies
– Roof water harvesting methods
– Nurseries management and reforestation program
– Construction and rehabilitation of water sources
– Construction of sub-surface dams
– Construction of shallow wells
– Construction of feeder roads
– Income generation/diversification activities with focus on pastoral and agro-pastoral communities. This includes bee-keeping trainings and material inputs, farmer’s assistance packages etc.
– Research & documentation
The following projects are on-going and completed environment field projects
The overall goal of the project is aiming at the improvement of standard of living and quality of life of the pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, farmers and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sanaag and Togdheer regions and it is about these sectors. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Economic Recovery and Market Systems (ERMS) […]
This is an emergency project assisted to drought affected communities in the coastal areas of the three regions of Sahil, Awdal and Marodijex of Somaliland. This emergency project is funded by FCA and implemented by Candlelight. Project overall goal: The Overall goal of the project is that the human suffering […]
