What We Do
Restoring Degraded Lands & Improving Livelihoods In Rural Liberia
Planting-Trees, Restoring Degraded Lands & Conserving Environment
The Green Liberia Climate Change & Poverty Mitigators (GLCCPM) promotes sustainable development in Liberia by restoring degraded lands and reducing deforestation. By partnering with rural communities, especially women and youths, GLCCPM plants indigenous and exotic trees to alleviate pressure on rainforests and enhance environmental health
Read-More This community-focused approach fosters local stewardship and ensures the long-term sustainability of their conservation efforts. By restoring degraded lands through integrating agricultural practices with forestry, GLCCPM promotes sustainable land use and food security within these communities. Local community members are encouraged to grow a variety of food crops in tree corridors, which not only fosters ecological balance but also creates additional income opportunities. This agroforestry approach not only restoring degraded lands, but also supports environmental conservation while simultaneously enhancing rural livelihoods. By blending tree planting with agriculture with the perspective of restoring degraded land, GLCCPM helps communities to become more resilient and self-sufficient, addressing both environmental and socio-economic challenges. In addition to restoring degraded lands and its environmental initiatives, GLCCPM places a strong emphasis on restoring degraded lands and community empowerment through training in basic silvicultural skills. By equipping women and youths with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage these activities, the organization fosters greater self-reliance and improved livelihoods. This capacity-building effort aims to ensure long-term financial independence and economic stability for the communities involved. By aligning social and economic development with environmental sustainability, GLCCPM creates a holistic model of growth that benefits both people and the planet. Read-Less
Restoring Degraded Lands, Empowering Rural-Communities & BuildingCapacity
GLCCPM prioritizes capacity building and empowerment of rural community members, especially women and youths, to ensure their full involvement and leadership in daily project activities. Understanding that this empowerment is vital for sustainable success, the organization provides essential silvicultural skills training.
Read-More This training not only enhances their understanding of environmental issues like land degradation but also equips them to address these challenges effectively. Through this approach, GLCCPM fosters significant environmental, social, and economic benefits. Environmentally, it helps combat deforestation and restore degraded landscapes. Socially, it builds community cohesion and self-reliance. Economically, it improves livelihoods, generates income, and promotes financial independence, contributing to long-term, sustainable development. GLCCPM’s capacity-building efforts extend beyond technical training to include leadership and organizational skills, empowering community members to take initiative and drive their own development. By actively engaging in project management and decision-making, women and youths not only enhance their personal growth but also contribute to the overall success and sustainability of the initiatives. This holistic approach ensures that communities are not only equipped to address environmental challenges but are also positioned to thrive economically and socially, creating a robust foundation for long-term resilience and prosperity. Read-Less
Charity and Social Through Community Empowerment & Capacity Building Initiatives
The Green Liberia Climate Change & Poverty Mitigators (GLCCPM) provides a range of teaching and learning materials, including school uniforms, for rural children. While primary schools in rural Liberia are free to enroll, extreme poverty often prevents parents from affording essential supplies such as writing pads, pencils, backpacks, and uniforms.
Read-More To address this, GLCCPM regularly supplies food items and cash gifts to parents, helping them sustain their families and ensure their children can attend school. GLCCPM provides a comprehensive range of teaching and learning materials, including school uniforms, to support rural children’s education. Despite the availability of free enrollment in most primary schools in rural Liberia, extreme poverty remains a significant barrier. Many families struggle to afford essential school supplies such as writing pads, pencils, backpacks, and uniforms. GLCCPM addresses this challenge by supplying these critical items, ensuring that children have the tools they need to participate fully in their education. In addition to educational support, GLCCPM also provides regular food items and cash gifts to parents. This assistance helps families sustain themselves and alleviate some of the financial pressures that prevent them from sending their children to school. By addressing both the immediate and long-term needs of these families, GLCCPM plays a crucial role in improving educational outcomes and fostering a more stable and supportive environment for children to learn and thrive. This holistic approach not only enhances the well-being of individual families but also contributes to the broader goal of increasing educational access and promoting sustainable community development. Read-Less
How We're Restoring Degraded Lands
Acquisition of Degraded Land
The Green Liberia Climate Change & Poverty Mitigators (GLCCPM) operates within a complex societal framework, addressing diverse needs across various landscapes. Rural communities, often driving factors behind deforestation and environmental degradation through slash-and-burn agriculture, charcoal production, and timber harvesting, necessitate a long-term, trust-building approach. GLCCPM focuses on establishing strong relationships with these communities to foster buy-in for alternative income opportunities and sustainable agricultural practices.
Read-More This approach involves offering comprehensive training, empowerment, and capacity-building programs, and integrating food crop cultivation within planted tree-corridors. By providing communities with a shared vision and viable alternatives to their traditional practices, GLCCPM helps them transition to more sustainable ways of living and working. To facilitate this, the organization signs memorandums of understanding and partnership agreements with landowners, ensuring that rural communities become active stakeholders and take ownership of sustainability efforts. GLCCPM actively involves local people in restoration and sustainable land use management activities, recognizing that without strong social engagement and cooperation, the risk of continued deforestation and degradation remains high. Balancing restoration with sustainable land use management is crucial for enhancing livelihoods, generating income, and ensuring both short-term and long-term environmental, social, and economic sustainability benefits. Read-Less
Lands' Contributors
Our land contributors are rural communities that have lost their primary sources of livelihood and financial income due to deforestation, land degradation, and environmental harm. Historically, local income generation was often linked to these unsustainable practices. To address this, GLCCPM focused on building relationships and trust with these communities to transition them towards alternative income opportunities that alleviate pressure on Liberia’s remaining rainforests.
Read-More Establishing a shared vision and objectives for the landscapes with the communities is crucial. By contributing degraded lands, communities are investing in their own future, with the promise of improved livelihoods and income generation through the very trees they help plant—achieving their goals without further harming the rainforest. Read-Less
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Sustainable Development Goals
Enhancing The SDGs & ARREST
The Green Liberia Climate Change & Poverty Mitigators (GLCCPM) is an environmental and social organization dedicated to advancing both the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Liberian Government Development Agenda; ARREST. GLCCPM envisions ending deforestation, poverty, and unemployment by partnering with values-driven rural communities committed to restoring their environments and improving their livelihoods. The organization aims to reduce pressure on Liberia’s remaining rainforests, promote sustainable land management, and empower communities, with tree planting as a key entry point for these transformative goals.
United Nations - SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), established by the United Nations in 2015, provide a comprehensive and ambitious framework to tackle global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and issues of peace and justice by 2030. These 17 interconnected goals aim to ensure no one is left behind, promoting holistic improvement in living conditions, fostering equity and inclusion, and addressing both social and environmental sustainability.
Read-More Achieving the SDGs requires significant resource mobilization, policy integration, data monitoring, and international cooperation. Despite the challenges, the SDGs offer numerous opportunities, such as fostering innovation, encouraging sustainable business practices, and building resilient communities. The ultimate aim is to create a more equitable, resilient, and sustainable future for all, ensuring that global development benefits everyone and preserves the planet for future generations. Read-Less
Government of Liberia - ARREST-A
The ARREST agenda, encompassing Agriculture, Road, Rule of Law, Sanitation, and Tourism, is the Liberian Government’s strategic framework for national development. By focusing on these five areas, the government aims to enhance food self-sufficiency, improve infrastructure, strengthen the justice system, promote public health, and develop the tourism sector. These initiatives are designed to boost agricultural productivity, ensure better connectivity and trade, maintain a stable legal environment, and leverage the country’s natural and cultural assets for economic diversification.
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