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Jekora Ventures Limited (JVL) has won the prestigious SEED 2021 Low Carbon Award for its Briquette and Compost Production at the JVL-YKMA Recycling Plant.
The company was recognized for converting source-separated food waste from local markets, faecal sludge from public and private toilets, wood waste, and rice husk from the mills to produce compost and briquette as soil amendment and low-cost alternative fuel wood respectively for food, energy and cleaner environment.
The Seed Award
The SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development is an annual awards scheme designed to identify the most innovative and promising locally led start-up eco-inclusive enterprises in developing and emerging economies.
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Building refugee resilience in East Africa through reusing resources
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This World Population Day, we explore how refugees can develop resilience with water
Refugees from South Sudan in the Rhino Camp of northern Uganda will soon be fortifying their diets with okra grown in their own home gardens thanks to supplemental irrigation with grey water. The activity is one of many in a project co-led by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in East Africa which is helping refugees to reuse scarce resources.
“In refugee settlements in East Africa, resources such as water, firewood and fertile land are limited,” said Solomie Gebrezgabher, a research economist with IWMI and co-leader of the
Parliamentarians pledge to work for groundwater extraction management
July 8, 2021
Islamabad : Parliamentarians from National Assembly, Senate and provincial assemblies of Punjab and Sindh have pledged to work together to improve legislative framework governing ground water extraction in Pakistan and improve cooperation and coordination for achieving Sustainable Development Goals target on water and sanitation by 2030.
Over 25 parliamentarians of National Assembly, Senate and Provincial Assemblies of Punjab and Sindh attended a national consultative workshop on “Ground Water Extraction Management, WASH Governance and Human Rights to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene” organised by WaterAid Pakistan.
Speaking on behalf of Senate Chairman Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani, Senator Seeme Ezdi, Chairperson Standing Committee on Climate Change said that Pakistan is one of the top 5 countries facing water shortage. “In order to tackle this, I would like to urge youth to play their part in cre
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