projects

Community-based environmental management

Completed
Workers assembling a bamboo-framed structure with blocks and tools in a rural field surrounded by tall grass and trees.
Programme
UNHCR Innovation Incubator
Fund
Environment and Climate Action Innovation Fund | Incubator
Start Date
Total Project Cost
USD 99,989.000
Country
Ecuador
Project Team
Fundacion El Churo , Reciveci , Inbar , Fundacion Circular , UNHCR Ecuador

Challenge

Increasing climate change impacts are compounding vulnerabilities in northern Ecuador, with high impact weather events leading to cycles of displacement for Ecuadorian communities as well as refugees and migrants from Venezuela and Colombia.

Solution

UNHCR will test a variety of mitigation and adaptation solutions based on traditional and Indigenous knowledge tailored to five distinct ecosystems in northern Ecuador.

Impact

Enhanced environmental management, skills and knowledge developed, improved social and economic resilience. This initiative is projected to benefit 270 people, with up to 10,300 experiencing indirect benefits.

Project impact

230
people benefit from climate action projects
5
communities engage in the testing of new, sustainable technologies

Other information

Following the project, the team planned workshops with youth groups to maintain their communications projects, as well as follow-up livelihood processes in the community of El Chical, so the bamboo project might grow. For more information, watch the videos below – which were produced by young community members, as part of the project – and read our webstory.