Our Work
Preparedness, participation, restoration, skills, and advocacy — connected programmes that reinforce each other in every community we serve.
Helping communities anticipate, withstand, and recover from floods, droughts, landslides, and storms.
We strengthen the preparedness of communities, local government, and institutions in disaster-prone areas of Rwanda — from early-warning awareness to household-level readiness. When climate shocks strike, prepared communities recover faster and lose less.
Putting farmers, women, and youth at the centre of every intervention we design.
Resilience is built from the ground up. We run participatory dialogues with local leaders and residents, engage women's groups and youth, and co-design every project with the people it serves — so interventions are owned, relevant, and sustained long after we leave.
Mapping degradation hotspots with GIS and local knowledge, then restoring them with agroforestry.
Combining participatory mapping with GIS tools, we identify areas suffering from soil erosion and deforestation, validate findings with the community, and respond with tree planting intercropped with crops — restoring land while improving harvests.
Practical training in climate-smart agriculture, clean energy, and sustainable land use.
Through hands-on workshops, field demonstrations, and IEC materials in Kinyarwanda, we equip farmers, local officials, and community groups with skills they can apply the same season — from agroforestry techniques to rooftop rainwater harvesting.
Amplifying community voices and aligning local action with national environmental policy.
We work alongside district authorities and the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) to align grassroots action with national policy, and we use radio, community announcements, and local media to keep climate resilience on the public agenda.
Flagship project · Ruhango District, Southern Province, Rwanda
Project deep-dive
Ruhango District has lived the cost of soil erosion, deforestation, and unmanaged water. This five-day, community-based workshop confronts those pressures with skills and tools households keep long after the programme ends — directly advancing SDG 13 (Climate Action) and SDG 15 (Life on Land).
Training sessions on trees intercropped with crops, seedling distribution to farmers, and community planting events led by agronomists and local leaders.
Participatory mapping exercises combine GIS tools with local knowledge to produce a validated map and report of degradation hotspots.
Assessment of terraces, water channels, and tree nurseries built by earlier partners — and community-led plans to maintain them.
Live demonstrations of rooftop rainwater collection and energy-saving stoves, engaging women's groups and distributing sample units to households.
100+
participants sensitized on agroforestry & sustainable farming
50+
households reached with energy-saving stoves
1
validated GIS map of degradation hotspots — shared with the district
| Partner | Role |
|---|---|
| CDRRO | Lead organization and implementer |
| Government Authorities | Coordination, mobilization, and policy support |
| REMA | Policy guidance from Rwanda's environment authority |
| Local farmers & communities | Main beneficiaries — and main implementers |
| CBOs & NGOs | Community mobilization and long-term follow-up |
Seedlings, stoves, water tanks, facilitators — each one has a cost, and each one changes a household's future.
Field evidence
Before we act, we listen and measure. Our team carried out a climate change and disaster risk assessment together with local government — sector agronomists, foresters and social-economic officers — through office consultations and field visits with residents.
Assessed in Ruhango District: Bweramana, Byimana, Kinihira & Mwendo sectors
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