Take Action for Climate Resilience: Join Our Efforts to Protect Our Planet

Climate change is a pressing global challenge that threatens the well-being of communities and ecosystems worldwide. In the Lake Zone, smallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events, droughts, and floods.

The Foundation for Development Organization (FODEO) is committed to empowering these communities to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. Through a comprehensive approach that focuses on resilience, sustainability, and gender equality, FODEO is making a significant impact in the Lake Zone.

Here are some specific actions you can take to support FODEO's climate action efforts:

• Donate: Your financial contribution will enable FODEO to continue its vital work, providing essential training, resources, and support to farmers and communities in the Lake Zone.
• Spread Awareness: Raise awareness about FODEO's work and the importance of climate action among your network. Encourage others to join the movement to protect our planet.
• Advocate for Climate Action: Contact your elected officials and urge them to support policies that promote climate resilience and sustainable development.
• Adopt Eco-Friendly Practices: Make changes in your own life to reduce your environmental impact, such as conserving energy, reducing waste, and supporting sustainable businesses.

Together, we can make a difference. By joining forces with FODEO and taking action to address climate change, we can protect our planet and ensure a sustainable future for all.

FODEO Development Objective

The project development objective is to develop approaches that would enable targeted communities to adapt to the potential impacts of climate variability and change through social accountability methodology. This would be achieved by strengthening existing institutional frameworks for climate change adaptation, and by the demonstration of cost-effective adaptation strategies in agriculture and natural resources management.

Current Our efforts to address climate change focus on:

To ensure that smallholder farmers living around the Lake zone are trained in resilience to climate change and adoption and vulnerable, rural communities in the program target areas have reduced vulnerability and increased resilience to the anticipated impacts of climate variability and change and strengthening adaptive capacities of vulnerable communities and the ecosystems they depend on, by promoting food security, nutrition and using a gender sensitive approach.

Through social accountability monitoring in REDD+, the project assisted beneficiaries to avert climate change damages and better cope with extreme weather conditions. During the duration of the program, the organization creates small-scale disaster-resilient structures and provided livelihood activities for households. Using agro-forestry, the organization plants 5,000,000 trees every year in order to conserve soil and water.

We are develops effective practices for preserving trees in the community around Lake Zone by using a regeneration approach and a tree nursery. Developing agricultural practices that combine technologies with most effective agricultural practices in order to adapt to the needs of farmers. Providing equipment to farmers to improve their technical capabilities with regard to climate risk management. The beneficiaries of REDD+ are empowered to form women, youths, and men farmer accountability monitoring committees. Technical experts from FODEO join smallholder farmer committees. Program committed to engaging indigenous knowledge from farming communities and scientific information from local government departments.

The project develops a series of demonstration plots and training centers for climate resilient technologies and best practices across the Lake zone. These demonstration plots help improve access to climate information among farmers and encourage community and cooperative level investments in resilience. The program takes into consideration gender sensitive barriers to accessing such information and encourages participation by women through the clear setting of targets and mainstreaming gender considerations where appropriate.

Climate Action Plan

To mitigate future climate impacts, we have developed a Climate Action Plan to guide the Department’s programs, projects, and activities in response to a changing climate. The Plan comprises three phases, the first of which was the development to improve livelihood through climate resilience, takes into consideration gender sensitive barriers to accessing such information and encourages participation by women through the clear setting of targets and mainstreaming gender considerations where appropriate and consists of standardizing the Department’s climate change analysis tools and assessing our assets’ vulnerabilities to climate change.