Project Implementation
Working with local stakeholders, including rural communities, NGOs, farmer cooperatives, and suppliers helps ensure that our Nature-based Solutions projects are contextually relevant, culturally accepted, and supported by the necessary resources and knowledge, which is crucial for successful, landscape-scale implementation and long-term sustainability.
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Local communities will play a key role in decision-making, implementation, and long-term project management
By collaborating with local communities we can ensure that our projects are catered towards local needs, promote community ownership, and integrate traditional knowledge. These are key factors for effective implementation and long-term success.
Working with local communities in the Malanje region of Angola requires an understanding of social hierarchies, such as the influence of Sobas (traditional chiefs). Incorporating traditional leadership structures and community priorities into our project design and implementation helps ensure that our NbS projects are culturally sensitive, gain local support, and are more likely to succeed.
Learn more about how we carefully work to involve, and prioritise the needs of local communities in our projects.
KAYA collaborates with local farming cooperatives to promote sustainable land management practices, including agroforestry and soil restoration, which are essential for the success of Nature-based Solutions.
By training cooperative members in sustainable agriculture techniques and providing access to resources like seeds and tools, we can ensure effective implementation on the ground. We will be offering capacity-building workshops on sustainable land management, agroforestry, and reforestation practices at the KAYA Lab.
Cooperatives can also assist in monitoring and maintaining project sites, ensuring that restoration efforts are long-lasting. Involving cooperatives helps us align projects with local needs, building community ownership, and strengthening resilience to climate change, ultimately driving both environmental and socio-economic benefits.
KAYA will support cooperatives, microfinance programs, and market linkages to help small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs grow their businesses.
By working closely with local NGOs, we can bridge the gap between global best practices and local realities.
Our engagement with local NGOs and civil society organisations unlocks valuable expertise and established community relationships for KAYA. These groups bring deep knowledge of sustainable agriculture and regionally appropriate reforestation, ensuring our strategies align with local practices.
By working together, we can bridge the gap between global best practices and local realities, ensuring our projects are impactful, sustainable, and beneficial for both people and nature.
We cherish the invaluable knowledge of Angola’s ecosystems, land-use traditions, and socio-political landscape that our NGO partners provide us. All the while, we hope to amplify their influence and effectiveness, expanding local capacities with our technical expertise, and by introducing advanced methodologies for sustainable agriculture, reforestation, and carbon certification.
We will construct all the necessary infrastructure for our reforestation project, including field stations, connecting roads and nurseries.
Engaging local contractors for land preparation, infrastructure development, and transport services fosters economic inclusion, strengthening local expertise and ownership. We estimate that our reforestation project alone will create 30 permanent jobs in nursery management as well as up to 1,300 seasonal or temporary roles.
To undertake a landscape-scale reforestation project in Angola, we need to collect plenty of native seeds – and we’ve already employed local people to help us achieve this.
Thousands upon thousands of seeds from native tree species have already been collected – with the help of those we’ve hired from local communities.
By collaborating with local communities we can ensure that our projects are catered towards local needs, promote community ownership, and integrate traditional knowledge. These are key factors for effective implementation and long-term success.
Local communities will play a key role in decision-making, implementation, and long-term project management
Working with local communities in the Malanje region of Angola requires an understanding of social hierarchies, such as the influence of Sobas (traditional chiefs). Incorporating traditional leadership structures and community priorities into our project design and implementation helps ensure that our NbS projects are culturally sensitive, gain local support, and are more likely to succeed.
Learn more about how we carefully work to involve, and prioritise the needs of local communities in our projects.
KAYA collaborates with local farming cooperatives to promote sustainable land management practices, including agroforestry and soil restoration, which are essential for the success of Nature-based Solutions.
By training cooperative members in sustainable agriculture techniques and providing access to resources like seeds and tools, we can ensure effective implementation on the ground. We will be offering capacity-building workshops on sustainable land management, agroforestry, and reforestation practices at the KAYA Lab.
KAYA will support cooperatives, microfinance programs, and market linkages to help small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs grow their businesses.
Cooperatives can also assist in monitoring and maintaining project sites, ensuring that restoration efforts are long-lasting. Involving cooperatives helps us align projects with local needs, building community ownership, and strengthening resilience to climate change, ultimately driving both environmental and socio-economic benefits.
Our engagement with local NGOs and civil society organisations unlocks valuable expertise and established community relationships for KAYA. These groups bring deep knowledge of sustainable agriculture and regionally appropriate reforestation, ensuring our strategies align with local practices.
By working closely with local NGOs, we can bridge the gap between global best practices and local realities.
By working together, we can bridge the gap between global best practices and local realities, ensuring our projects are impactful, sustainable, and beneficial for both people and nature.
We cherish the invaluable knowledge of Angola’s ecosystems, land-use traditions, and socio-political landscape that our NGO partners provide us. All the while, we hope to amplify their influence and effectiveness, expanding local capacities with our technical expertise, and by introducing advanced methodologies for sustainable agriculture, reforestation, and carbon certification.
We will construct all the necessary infrastructure for the reforestation project, including field stations, connecting roads and nurseries.
Thousands upon thousands of seeds from native tree species have already been collected – with the help of those we’ve hired from local communities.
Engaging local contractors for land preparation, infrastructure development, and transport services fosters economic inclusion, strengthening local expertise and ownership. We estimate that our reforestation project alone will create 30 permanent jobs in nursery management as well as up to 1,300 seasonal or temporary roles.
To undertake a landscape-scale reforestation project in Angola, we need to collect plenty of native seeds – and we’ve already employed local people to help us achieve this.
