Sustainable Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction
SIDI wish to make the difference to local people living in the Lake Victoria Basin by developing projects utilizing resources sustainably, promotes shared benefits and encourages participatory plans and gender concern for the benefits of all people.
To realize and achieve positive results,SIDI prioritize the key issues those responding on:
1.Sustainable Development: promotes sustainable fish farming, trees planting and water hyacinth evacuation, social studies, research and ecological biodiversity conservation.
2.Social Micro Enterprises: promotes communitty based micro credits facilitation, entrepreneurship development and federation of self help groups and management as the sustainability of working together
3.Advocacy and lobbying: develop the local understanding capacity to stakeholders, fishers and fishing communities to advocate on policy development those favour the needs of people and absorbs their decision on policy formulation towards shared and benefits on resources and protection of resources- rich
In recent years, new economic growth, shifting population dynamics, and climate change have taken place so intensely and rapidly that the established adaptation mechanisms of the people of the Lake Victoria Basin region are losing their efficacy. The result has been an increased risk of living in poverty and further marginalisation for the populations living in the basin.
In the light of the rapidly changing economic, social and environmental context discussed above, only innovative and sustainable adaptation strategies and methods can ensure a secure and improved lifestyle for the people of the Lake Victoria Basin region and their downstream beneficiaries. This Strategic Programme will provide the innovative livelihood options that are needed to enhance socio economic sustainability and to ensure that livelihood and poverty reduction issues are systematically integrated into SIDI’s activities.
The region’s people must be enabled and empowered to cope with, adapt to, and benefit from the changes they are experiencing so that they can enjoy enhanced livelihoods along with increased social and environmental security.
SIDI monitors and analyses the poverty situation and its main drivers, and helps to develop communitty based projects and policy-relevant information with a special emphasis on high value products and value chains, innovative livelihood options, and economic analysis. It promotes resilience to help alleviate poverty by providing sustainable livelihood options. Innovative rural income generation strategies are at the heart of adaptation strategies that allay the effects of socioeconomic and environmental change.
2. Bio gas energy promotion for social well being
Energy effecienty for equal opportunities The energy sector development has remained in critical challenges ,predictable and unreliable conditions especially to vulnerable and the poor rural people, through this situation-the most vulnerable are the women and girls, in 2013, it was only 6.8% of rural dwellers whom were connected to power and the majorities have inability to get off electricity ;as they are staying away from the electricity power- grid and limited income to install alternative source of energy as solar power, bio gas tech etc, The rural people have being isolated by the energy dealers because have limited resources to buy and manage the cost of alternative energy ,all above that; they face absence of reliable infrastructure to reach them easily, and this challenge has being pushing the women and girls into more defencelessness, extreme poverty and nakedness as the results of the poor policy formulation and lower investments in rural electrification Enhanced participation and involvement of both villagers/men and women during the project study, action planning and it helped to set measuring results during that preliminary step in this project design as where 23 women and 20 men have been interviewed in Sakasaka and Nyalanja villages ,Meatu district, in Shinyanga region in efforts to identify the social needs that will end energy crisis ,promote women’s dignity and possibility to contribute promotion of sustainable development in rural, as the new practicable move to stop no more killings of the elders in the most isolated and hard to reach Sukuma villages During that participatory study ;the villagers had told us over rampant energy crisis as the source of elders killings because of the highly illiteracy rate in the community, mostly had not went to school, facing limited social skills and inadequate awareness to utilize health services to solve their health problems in their families includes the basis of red eyes among elders ;to most villagers -child and maternal mortality are bound to be connected with witchcrafts and they always seem red eyed elders and mothers to be behind the root causes of the deaths-as red eyes women and elders are the witch craft and always kills people through witchcrafts myths Participatory project management is geared to increase social governance ,ownership and maximum benefits to the key players over the project life-cycles .The interviewed villagers had promoted that approaches to ensure that option has fuelled to increase grassroots sustainability and long term benefits; this component will includes proposals to build the capacity of 4 local resources person and village committees in managing bio gas digesters to have capacity to operate minor services and have basic understanding on basic methodologies in designing the bio-gas digesters in small scale capacity Involvement of the women in the organization set up and management it has been an issue of concern, as the current organization chairman for SIDI is the woman, while technical designer of the project is also the woman ,the action will contribute to increase women-led efforts ,technical capability to support their fellow women who isolated in rural areas to have clean, sufficient, affordable energy that is free from health challenges through acquisition of bio-gas energy that to be piloted at 5 households and furthermore It will prioritize and sensitize women led households to trained and empowered to use bio gas, SIDI will contributes to build up social equality and equity in development issues by promoting capacity of women to manage and control resources for social development Potential benefits to women and girls would be enhanced through expected project results, as actualization of bio gas digesters fittings in the 5 pilot households to help awareness raising, dissemination of the roles and importance of biogas technology to end elders killings and ensure that women and girls have smart energy that is free from smoky and remains with their clear eyes where as those with red eyes have being killings for witchcraft beliefs, girls will get much time to engages in schools and wear down school dropout while the women will boost their economic activities and promote social equality among the rural and urban societies, provides economic and technological opportunity to benefits the rural based community |
Environmental Protection:Environment compliance As the LPG, Bio-gas is a mixture of 60% methane (CH 2) and 40% Carbon dioxide (CO2). It is non-volatile, but it can be a toxic gas for humans and animals, although the risk of endangerment may be low, we believe it is important to include mitigation measures to ensure human and animal health are protected highly, Principally ;it use common materials such as Plastic tanks, Pressure pipes, Gas valve, Metal pipes, Pressure gauges, Welding equipment –apply more bio waste as is the final disposal material that is go direct to nourish the land for improved farming activities after being used in the fermentation processes and it could contributes to improve farm based yield and support potentials of ecological sustainability chain Furthermore; Land O’Lakes –Tanzania has identified the following relevant Government of Tanzania directives which approve lower side effects when using- bio gas digesters through the social economic benefits have been realized through the IGE project, that had been done in collaboration with SIDI and thus approved the gas to comply with the environmental compliance 2.National Policy and Energy guidelines The Bio-gas digesters technology has been complied and suit to meet essential directives and policies as follows:
Social Outreach Through this collective efforts; The project will able to expand and enhance accessibility on bio mass renewable energy connectivity ;the social promotional will benefits wider communities through developing, maintaining and technical fitting and empowering the local technicians to manage the bio gas technology, this action will support and benefits the isolated households to be aware about bio mass technology and this action would be initialized to promote supply chain of material supplies at affordable and competitive prices This social efforts will met by all people in needy of energy crisis in targeted Sukuma communities that in turn will reduce high cost of buying energy cutting down about 75% , restoration of the ecological importance, redaction of trees falling ;also it will lessen the impact of the carbon emission through reduction of rampant use of firewood ,charcoal and kerosene, Furthermore-improvement of eyes health will reduce killings among the red-eyes elders Gender and Environments Developing gender equality policy in a shared benefits, access to education on bio mass energy technology, developing gender based plan and partnership in energy development are among the key issues geared to promote the role and priority of women to conserve nature; but also the project will ensure the women and girls have maximum benefits in sharing the opportunities to be created by the project-includes access to benefits of energy, new jobs, sustainable income, skills development and social ownership that considering the environment protection with gender focus approaches for sustainable development |
Over all Objectives
- Empowered communities, especially the poor youths and women, through enhanced livelihood options and the support of equitable institutional arrangements
- Enhanced and diversified income opportunities for the people created by tested technical and institutional innovations those creates incomes and knowledge management
- Improved well-being of the people in the basin through the establishment of efficient and equitable market linkages for agro- niche produces and linked services
- More sustainable livelihoods, improved equity, and reduced poverty for the people facilitated by the promotion of evidence-based policy involved people and stakeholders
Bio gas project in Masailand
We has started fundraisng campaigne to benefits the Masai after observed worsen situation as follows-
SIDI has found social problems to affects the Masai pastoralists to be as follows
-High cost of energy is double than that costing from bio gas, it take hold of 45-50 % of Masai pastoralists household’s income -they buy expensive kerosene or diesel and firewood for lighting their homes (bomas /manyattas)
-Absence of alternative energy is not known to innovative investors to tape the existing energy thirsty and social need among the Masai pastoralists
-Low awareness to Masai about profitable utilization of cow dung for getting alternative energy production and its wastes can improve farm yields to benefits the farm produce
-12 women found killed because of possessing red eyes that is the negative effects resulted by cooking by three tier stoves that normally utilize smoky charcoal and fire woods
-Increasing poverty among women is being contributed by absence of sustainable energy as they spend time of women over 6 hours a day or 42 hours per week to find fossil energy and cause mismanagement of other social matters as care children, cook foods, care domestic animals etc
-School girls droop-out accounted by 36% and the villagers told us that girls are supposed to left schools for domestic purpose as to search firewood and water
-It observed that 4 in 5 households keeps cattle; but this value and resources are useless for social economic benefits includes cow dung that is the great raw materials in producing energy
-Over 65% of women elders face chest and breathing diseases, and most of them have medical documents evidenced their problem have caused by smoky cooking over past years
-Only 0.2% of villagers have access to solar power energy facilities ,the rest use firewood for lighting and cooking that increasing costs of forest cuttings and ecological fragile, introduction of bio gas energy will cut down this challenge
-Limited energy in public services delivery that affects quality services delivery includes health,schools,church etc;
-Public staff have being abandoned to work in rural areas/Masai land due to absence of sustainable energy to modernize and ease their life- few teachers, doctors, vet officers and police officers escape to work in isolated areas , social services delivery have remained poor in Masai land despite presence of modern infrastructure supported by the
government and development agencies
Proposed Intervetion
The aim of the project is to improve quality of life through provision of sufficient renewable energy. It will support isolated and hard to reach 10 pastoralist Masai community families and entire households based in rural Bunda and Serengeti ,in Mara region to have clean, effective and low cost bio-gas digesters technology, links to technical supports and supplies and strengthen the capacity of grass roots leadership to promote sustainable development by help developing participatory village centred development plans encircling sustainable energy utilization
Furthermore ,the project will support the Masai pastoralists families to have sustainable energy to ease cooking foods and warming practices in faster, more economical and protect their health for social-economic benefits that will contribute to achieve sustainable development in pastoralists’ villages and reduce poverty
More social benefits will includes reduction of trees falling to meet energy crisis , this move will reduce land degradation also will lessen carbon emission being contributes global warming ,but also to it will reduce health challenges affects girls and women when cooking by smoky energies like firewood, charcoal and dried cow dung and the most have being affected in breathing systems and tape to have red eyes that cause those who believes in witchcraft and superstition to kill them as they say red eyes is the symptom of the wizards and black magic,
The mission will endeavours to address these challenges by supporting development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, contributes to reduce school dropout for girls who have been affected by daily routes to search for firewood that lowering their times to engages to schools in most days-as many days girls fetch fire woods instead go to schools-this set back MDGs achievement; women have being affected by lacking sufficient time to engages in farming ,family care and other economic activities to generate incomes - everyday women are busy to search for energy in bush by walking long distance from home to the bush,
The one year action will show the best practices and contributes to improve rural livelihood by improving the lives of 10 households to act as the model of change in promoting sustainable development. It will reduce nature degradation, reduce poverty by reducing cost to access fossils energy, save time to women /girls ,reduce the impact of the climate
Action Areas/Divisions
To support SIDI by making development grants ; please send direct to our Bank Account by Telegraphic Transfer:
Beneficiary: Sustainable Investments and Development Initiatives (SIDI)
Banker: Kenya Commercial Bank Tanzania Limited
Location: Mwanza, Tanzania
Branch: Mwanza
Account Number: 3300776899
Swift Code:KCBTZ