It aims to enable rural communities strengthen their participation and representation and access to a vital environmental education to their economic development. The organization is committed to find new ways to help men, women and rural youth to progress, strengthen its capacity to manage the environment, to find their place in society, training, networking associate, to be heard, in order to improve their living conditions.

At present, EMEDO is developing the following projects:

• promoting the education of girls,
• the contribution of the community in managing the river Nambozo (Ukerewe district),
• the application of micro credit;
• aquaculture.
  

Since 2006, EMEDO works in partnership with ADEPA / WADAF, particularly in the project of aquaculture on the island of Ukerewe " in order to help fishing communities to find alternatives to fishing in Lake Victoria. This project will begin in 2008.

This initiative should be as a pilot for the development of approaches, methods and tools that may be adapted later to other processes in the region. It is sponsored by the Responsible Fishing Alliance (RFA), which presented three aquaculture projects to GS SpA (Carrefour Italy) and Carrefour Belgium, the latter approving funding to three years. The regions elected were Ukerewe Island and Bukoba in Tanzania, and Katosi (Mukono district) in Uganda.

EMEDO and its partners decided to focus on joint actions for sustainable development around Lake Victoria and respect a participatory approach involving target-communities from the beginning of the process. All share the same strategic directions, the guideline is the development of alternative and original fishing practices around the lake. It is also installing a mechanism for effective communication with the two remaining projects in Tanzania and Uganda.

EMEDO acknowledges the interest and the value of local level. We work in awareness due to sustainable development, especially in shares linked to the MDGs, that can only be reached from the local. The communities at the centre of the overall process of development, they have to receive information regarding all types of interventions at the local level.

Constitution of EMEDO (PDF)(ENG)(108KB)