RCE Nyanza - 2022

Public Environment Education
Basic Information
Title of project : 
Public Environment Education
Submitting RCE: 
RCE Nyanza
Contributing organization(s) : 
AT.FAMICA
Focal point(s) and affiliation(s)
Name: 
DR. JOHN MWANGA
Organizational Affiliation: 
AT FAMICA
E-mail: 
atfamicare2005@gmail.com
Format of project: 
powerpont
Language of project: 
English
Date of submission:
Update
Does this project link to any education and/or sustainable development policy or policies?: 
No
Geographical & Education Information
Region: 
Africa and Middle East
Country: 
Kenya
Address of focal point institution for project: 
1170 -40200 KISII, KENYA
Ecosystem(s):
Agricultural, Forest, Fresh water, Urban/Peri-urban, Wetlands
CLIMATE CHANGE
Target Audience:
Community, Higher, Primary, Secondary, Teacher Ed., TVET, Youth (Informal)
Socioeconomic and environmental characteristics of the area : 
PEOPLE AND FRESHWATER WETLANDS: Freshwater wetlands, like estuaries, provide very valuable services to people. They provide fish to eat and flood protection during storms. They also filter our water, giving us clean water to drink. Because of these valuable services, it is important that we work to conserve our wetlands.CHALENGES
Description of sustainable development challenge(s) in the area the project addresses: 
Wetland conservation is a young science and its management largely depends on adaptive management
approaches. Challenges and lessons learnt in a community based management of NyAKOMISARO RIVER Wetland therefore
form one of the most important outcomes of the NyAKOMISARO RIVER Resource Utility Optimization Project.
This chapter gives a comprehensive breakdown of the challenges faced as market failures, lack of institutional
framework, policy failures, lack of baseline information and awareness among stakeholders, and unclear land
tenure and ownership within wetland ecosystems. Other challenges include inadequate funding of wetland
conservation initiatives, inadequate community participation, variability of climatic conditions, lack of political
goodwill and lack of wetland management plans to guide towards wise use of wetlands. Several lessons were
learnt in this initiative which could guide future interventions in the basin. These include taking care to
ensure participatory approaches and mainstreaming of gender in order to reduce resource use conflicts, and
careful selection of alternative livelihood activities. Others include designing project activities with complete
knowledge of the attitude of the community towards the resource in question and the level of literacy of the
stakeholders. Leadership skills of the community and their leaders and copying with Climate Change must also
be manipulated to ensure attainment of conservation goals. It is also important to share information, identify
all stakeholders and form partnerships for collective success.
Contents
Status: 
Completed
Period: 
August, 2022
Rationale: 
We managed to come up with by laws of Kisii Municipality for better recourse collection.
Objectives: 
To promote awareness of the value of wetland resources and ecological processes that maintains them.
To ensure the active involvement of the residents of Kisii in sustainable environmental conservation and management.
To demonstrate and promote sustainable of wetland resources through raising awareness on threats and building the capacity of communities; and
To expand the present coverage of school conservation education awareness programmes while promoting linkages to other stakeholders e.g. NGOs, CBOs, and local government agencies.
To create advocacy on Environmental and Management Act.
To strengthen the networking and collaboration mechanisms that will enhance project sustainability.

Activities and/or practices employed: 
TRAINING
MANAGING
SUPERVISING
NATURING AND EMPOWERMENT
Size of academic audience: 
6000
Results: 
ADVOCACY GAPS
Based on our evaluation survey which we carried out between June and July 2006, it is clear that there are advocacy gaps that need ACTION TIMES FAMILY CARE (AT.FAMICA) to leverage resources and carry out an intervention. The partnering organizations have been in existence prior to our baseline survey which indicated advocacy gaps and the final evaluation surveys which indicated that our workshop interventions bridged the advocacy gaps, however, there is still more that need to be done through (PEESSD) project to reverse the scope of environmental decades.
Lessons learned: 
PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WEST MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION OF WETLANDS CATCHMENT AREAS
To work with and through primary and secondary school children along the Daraja Nyakomisaro river basin in raising awareness on sustainable conservation and management of the environment.
*To build capacity of environmental club members and community resource persons as TOT’s on natural resource management.
*To ensure sustainability of the advocacy by empowering community groups and school clubs on the use of wastes as a resource for wealth creation.
*To facilitate policies and laws formulation, sensitization and adoption within the municipality.
*To conserve and preserve the catchments areas and improved water quality of Daraja Nyakomisaro River that drains into Lake Victoria basin. This will be made possible through promoting of the best environmental practices in wetlands resources that traverses the vast areas of Kisii Central District.
 
Key messages: 
With deepest appreciation we accept this honor to speak on behalf of our team that has successfully fulfilled a two-year project.Our team performance in 2020-2022 is evidence of sustained profitable growth.I agree that we have worked as reliable team members, full of ideas that we wanted to realize by combined efforts. I thank you again for your efforts in achieving our organization’s goals.
I wish all of us new achievements in fulfilling our noble tasks.
Thank you for attention.
Relationship to other RCE activities: 
GOOD RELATIONSHIP WHICH IS VERY JOVIAL
Funding: 
EUROPEAN UNION THROUGH CDTF

Pictures:

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References and reference materials: 
File Presentation1.pptx
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
(https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs) and other themes of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
SDG 1 - End poverty in all its forms everywhere 
Direct
SDG 2 - End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture 
Direct
SDG 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages 
Direct
SDG 4 - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all 
Direct
SDG 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls 
Direct
SDG 6 - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all 
Direct
SDG 7 - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all 
Direct
SDG 8 - Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all 
Direct
SDG 9 - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation 
Direct
SDG 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries 
Direct
SDG 11 - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable 
Direct
SDG 12 - Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns 
Direct
SDG 13 - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts 
Direct
SDG 14 - Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development 
Direct
SDG 15 - Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss 
Direct
SDG 16 - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels 
Direct
SDG 17 - Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development 
Direct
Theme
Disaster Risk Reduction 
Direct
Traditional Knowledge  
Direct
Agriculture 
Direct
Arts 
Direct
Curriculum Development 
Direct
Ecotourism 
Direct
Forests/Trees 
Direct
Plants & Animals 
Direct
Waste 
Direct
ESD for 2030-Priority Action Areas
Priority Action Area 1 - Advancing policy 
state: 
Direct
Priority Action Area 2 - Transforming learning and training environments 
state: 
Direct
Priority Action Area 3 - Developing capacities of educators and trainers 
state: 
Direct
Priority Action Area 4 - Mobilizing youth 
state: 
Direct
Priority Action Area 5 - Accelerating sustainable solutions at local level 
state: 
Direct
Update: 
Yes
I acknowledge the above: 
Yes