Unidos Social Innovation Centre
What if we Transform Refugee Camps into Regenerative Communities?
Generation Restoration: A Dialogue for Social and Environmental Justice
#1 THE CHALLENGE
Globally, there are about 120 million forcibly displaced people including refugees. At the same time, more than 75% of Earth’s Land Areas are substantially degraded. The annual costs of land degradation are more than US$ 231 billion.
#2 THE DIALOGUES
What if we transform refugee camps into regenerative camps Several dialogues and two international roundtable discussions shed a light on this question and the possibility of combining restoration efforts with refugee assistance.
#3 THE STRATEGY
What does it need to make regenerative solutions the “new normal” in situations of displacement? Generation Restoration aims to support the needs of the dialogue partners in scaling, funding, guidance and networking.
INSPIRING STORIES ABOUT GOOD PRACTICE
Green Releaf, Philippines: Promoting the value of agroforestry system. Photo © Gumay Tenda
Youth Initiative for Community Empowerment
Aimable and Winnie show the fertile earth farmers can get from their compost toilet solution Ecosan in a settlement’s household
ECO MAMAS GLOBAL
Paulinho Muzaliwa, founder and director of UNIDOS, gets to the root of the problems and transforms them into solutions
Introduction in mushroom farming at the GenR summer event
YICE team member in green permaculture garden in Uganda
YICE’s mobile drip irrigation in a permaculture garden
OUR STRATEGY & THEORY OF CHANGE
SCALE POSITIVE EXAMPLES
Funding for grass root projects to multiply
Successful grass root projects with proof of concept now need fast AND long-term oriented funding to multiply their impacts, for example to create permaculture train-the-trainer-programs, build educational centers and train millions of refugees.
CHANGE Standards
Facilitating dialogues with standard setters
Big institutional stakeholders and NGOs are not yet focusing on long-term regenerative solutions on a large scale. In a facilitated participatory process, they co-develop common visions and strategies, including learnings and wisdom from existing projects.
DEVELOP OPPORTUNITIES
Cultivate business models for impact investment
Impact Investors are just about to discover the potential of combining ecosystem restoration with humanitarian or development aid, resulting in multiple benefits. They need guidance on how to measure positive impact of projects and how to help them become “investable”.
RESTORING EARTH, RESTORING DIGNITY
“What if we transform refugee camps into places of regeneration and hope?”
– Tina Teucher
“Practicing the art of permaculture
can give back ownership”
– Rosemary Morrow
OUR PARTNER & NETWORK
