CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH UNIT
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ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION UNIT
AGRICULTURE FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
COMMUNICATION AND ENVIRONMENT
WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH UNIT
Climate change is a threat to human existence, adapting and mitigating towards uprising environmental challenges is imminent. This department is involved in the following.
Addressing of the concerns of all vulnerable groups, whose adaptive capacity are low, particularly women, the elderly, physically challenged and the children who are particularly affected by the impacts of climate change.
-Promotion of renewable energy technologies (biogas plants, solar panel, hydroelectricity, bio fuels).
-Infrastructural investment through the use of climate change proofed clean technologies; transfer of technologies will support the development, implementation of regional medium, adaptation strategies, long term mitigation and activities.
-The protection of ecosystems including trans-boundary ecosystems, which are particularly vulnerable such as the coastal, marine, wetlands and fresh water ecosystems.
-Development of climate change related impact assessment and management as an adaptation tool, which should be emphasized on the future climatic negotiations.
- Promotion and carrying out of research on forecasting, development of climatic scenarios, climatic cartography at the local, national and international levels.
- Getting involved in the transition to a Green Economy, low carbon footprints, carbon markets, evaluation of Green House Gas (GHG) in all sectors, indulging in to aspects of calculating and evaluating our sequestration levels of our forest.
Departments under the various areas of intervention.
ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION UNIT
Conservation and environmental problems are context specific and should be tackled based on the locality characteristic. This department aims more on researching on the key challenges, and finding a balance between environmental conservation, forest governance, ecosystem services and development. This department get involve in negotiating sustainable environmental conservation, implementation of forest laws, proper control of ecosystem services, eco-conception and development actions.
AGRICULTURE FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT
The Agriculture for Local Development (ALD) has with principal objective, to contribute in innovations that sustainable enhance agriculture for sustainable local development. They believe a sustainable agricultural system depends on a range of conditions for optimum productivity, which are generated by natural ecological components and processes as well as artificial enhancement by the people. Their main goal is to contribute to sustainability in environmentally friendly agricultural technologies that will contribute to food security. In this way they are engage in research and provide technical support in the following areas of food and agriculture; agro-forestry, off forest based agriculture, climate smart agriculture, these actions provide a triple win, which involves increase in productivity, more resilient farming systems and contributing to carbon sequestration (low carbon emissions)
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
This department is involved in the social and economic progress of the country on quality education. They aim at education and equality among people, providing environmental awareness of children who are the future for a better planetary care and connecting to nature. Unfortunately, most underprivileged children worldwide and in Africa  and Cameroon especially, have inadequate the means to basic education because of extra cost (school fees – private schools, cost of uniforms and badges, transportation cost, feeding, and learning materials like textbooks, exercise books, pens and pencils) attached to schooling. Most children do not know about the elementary of their environment, how to appreciate and preserve. This department tries to bring education and equality towards the local population through the use of funded implementation projects.
COMMUNICATION AND ENVIRONMENT.
CEPOW in its mission clearly states the emphases on collaborative action and networking and uphold that through meaningful and inclusive participation, sustainable development can be achieved. This denotes the importance of communication and active public participation in her work to achieve their goals. There is no doubting the fact that the Communication/Marketing Department in every organization is the key and one of the most important of the departments. This is so because this department is the only tool the organization uses to tell the world what they stand for and what they have to offer to the general public. It is also important for selling the image of the organization. The Communication department of CEPOW uses the internet and Media as its main tool. However, other communication tools in cases of advertisement of activities for the public CEPOW have a website (www.cepowcam.org), a facebook page www.facebook.com/cepow1 @cepowcam; a twitter handle and an email address (info@cepowcam.org). All of these and more can be used to share initiatives and change lives as our slogan depicts. This department’s main goal is to sky rocket public participation in CEPOW activities by enhancing user traffic on the site, increasing posts that attract likes and comments on Facebook page, so that a bigger network can be created.
WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT:
Gender equality is vital towards developmental progress. Women play a great role towards fostering the sustainable development goal agenda. Cepow through its women and development program is aimed at empowering young women on leadership skills, entrepreneurship, rights of the girl child (gender right education) and inclusive integration of women to all development activities carried out by Cepow. We aim at designing project and implementation,which will act as a spring board toward gender based equality.