Community Impact Project
Rethinking community involvement in climate action
Our Community Impact Project is a community-driven inclusive project that seeks to engage 100,000 local residents across the various coastal communities in Nigeria from 2021-2030.
The Community Impact Project is an inclusive project aimed at strengthening the capacity of coastal community for climate resilience through dialogue, advocacy and locally-driven informal education approaches to combat climate change. It is an initiative that seeks to deliver resilience approaches with and for communities to scale our climate action efforts
Our Community Impact project launched in 2021 aimed at connecting communities to be active citizens on climate issues, discuss and action while empowering them to promote local economies..
Our Community Impact Project seek to change the African climate narrative and push its climate agenda through high-impact capacity-building programmes and projects that reaches the furthest behind.
Revamp Rave Network’s aim for the Kadara Waste Reduction project is to create and foster an enabling environment to support KADARA community and reframe its environmental pollution to opportunities, through the effective participation of target community groups as well as leverage partnerships with private and civil structures. Kadar’s project goal is a vigorous commitment to community enterprise while eliminating pollutions of all kinds.
Agoro community consisting of Kadara, Coates and Market Street is a community located at heart of one of Lagos’s largest informal settlement and hosts about 10,000 residents according to the local government data. Kadara located under Agoro Community borders around market Street, Coaes and Kadara. With no alternative means of waste disposal, Agoro community consisting of over 6,000 resident openly throw waste to burn and dump into the sea to rid themselves of the many environmental degradations both from household waste, particularly from the wood industry situated in the community.
In the same way, access to decent jobs is far-fetch due to little or no education or relevant skill set. Therefore, women take these types of jobs to fend for themselves. Kadara Waste Reduction Project is three pathway project under our community impact project initiated to sensitise, education, collaborate and empower Kadara community residents for more climate action while reducing waste disposal problem.
The second pathway of the Kadara Waste Reduction project was the community engagement event with key stakeholders to optimise the goal of our project. The engagement saw the mobilisation of 100 residents, gathering 200 research data.
Through the Climate College Hub, the two day capacity building programme focused on young volunteers was carried out to equip with climate knowledge to participate in the Kadara Waste Reduction Project cycle. This was the first pathway of the introductory phase of the project.
The third pathway of the Kadara Waste Reduction Project was the community sensitisation and awareness rally that took place in Agoro covering Kadara, Coate and Market. The rally was done in collaboration with the community leader and focal persons.
The fourth pathway of the Kadara Waste Reduction project was a cleanup exercise to carried out to enhance environmental cleanliness and reduce indiscriminate disposal of waste and environmental lithering among residents.
The fifth pathway of the Kadara Waste Reduction Project in partnership with RecyclePoints was carried out to deliver recycling education and create recycling avenues to the community. Through the Recycle Points Dorin Bin, the community have a waste management contact point and has empowered twenty women through the process.
This cohort was helpful as it was carried out by professionals from around the world. It has helped me with so much clarity about climate change issues and its linkages with other working of the environment. I am happy to have benefited from the programme.
In starting, I didn’t take it will exceed my expectations but after going through the classes, delivering on class assessment and the social plans, I can say I have the capacity to carry out a programme on climate change. It been super insightful and educative.
I found this programme to be very rich and insightful. It was professionally developed and delivered. I probably learnt alot more than expected. The double-edged approach helped us understand these burning issues at a global level and their impacts in our local communities. I recommend it as a perfect fit for anyone. interested in learning about climate change.
The cohort has been an educative space which has personally impacted my way of thinking and talking about climate change and the environment. This initiative is a wake-up call for individuals, CSO, researchers and other stakeholders that there is alot being looked at and some yet to.
I have learned a lot from different topics. The interaction further brought light on environmental issues. Moreover, i was able to learn about other countries 's environmental impacts and control through case studies, this giving me light on tackling issues our my respective countries.
I learned new things I didn't know about climate change prior to the start of the cohort. It has broaden my horizon to create more scale-able impact while working with like minds for better climate-smart future.
The program has been so helpful in broadening my knowledge in issues of the environment and climate change. It has helped me in genders, policies and investments in the environment. I am glad to have gone through the 14 weeks programme on climate change.
The experience is quite great with me understanding better on issues concerning climate change. Getting to know information on climate change from experts was something I would have paid heavily to attend. But this was absolutely free and with lots of opportunities. Thank you so much, Revamp Rave Network. I will never forget this investment made in me.
I have had the opportunity to participate in this cohort and I must say that it has been a birth place for me, particularly in the areas of land-use management, agriculture and food security class handled by Thought for Food (TFF). I must say thank you to the team. It has been a wonderful experience connect with more youth and experts from six continent.
I was so grateful to be one of the trainees in the last cohort. It was a unique platform that gave me and other youths an avenue to learn and unlearn about climate change. I gained new knowledge and skill about climate change. My experience with the the expert tutors was explicit. Thank you RRN, I am grateful for the platform.
I was part of the second cohort for Revamp Rave Network Nigeria. This was my first ever course on climate change, it came at a time when I wasn't sure of how useful the my course of study in Environmental Engineering and Management was useful. .
I have learned a lot on climate change, this is an opportunity that is rare to come by since the courses are not in public institutions. I can teach others and create impactful awareness on climate change because I now know what its all about. Thank you, Revamp Rave for giving me and 199 others the opportunity to learn and contribute.
This cohort was helpful as it was carried out by professionals from around the world. It has helped me with so much clarity about climate change issues and its linkages with other working of the environment. I am happy to have benefited from the programme.
The program has made me an informed citizen who is now conscious of his environment. It taught me about the global issues that currently needs the world attention and how I can take part in it. I can even explain what climate change is and how it affects the environment. Thanks to the programme.
The Virtual Cohort Programme is a brilliant initiative, and I appreciate the entire RRN team on this one. It was an amazing experience learning via this platform. It gave me a clear understanding on climate change and my role as a young person in climate action.
Knowing the fundamentals of climate change in the least can help me, and you fights its impacts in all ramifications; equally, our behavior towards our environment starts with you and me3. Thank you Revamp Rave Network!
The platform has afforded me the chance to learn many lessons that I am applying to my daily living to help fight the change that affects us all. As a farmer, I have adopted several modules learned from the sessions to my many activities.
The learnings in these sessions have been enlightening. It’s a clarion call to climate action. I am looking forward to more engagement an action on this subject. The sessions were great and I like the sharing of information and materials to aid more learning.
The classes on climate change were amazing. The instructors were patient enough to disseminate information in a way everyone could understand. I can say I know how my actions affects the environment & I am working towards a change in behavior.
My experience on the platform has improved my knowledge and awareness about climate change, how it affects my community and how I can reduce my carbon footprint for a better live on earth. The platform has broaden my mind to things I never knew before.
