Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Community Education Case Study Session Ms Ireri Bancy, RCE Greater Nairobi 9th African Regional RCE Meeting 5-7 August, 2019, Luyengo, Eswatini

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ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
THROUGH COMMUNITY
EDUCATION
by
RCE GREATER NAIROBI
Implementing organization
HERI Foundation
The organization’s area of coverage is Kiambu
and Nairobi Counties in Kenya
Characteristics of the area
• Steadily increasing population and
urbanization.
• High pressure on natural resources.
• High dependence on wood products for fuel
resulting in severe deforestation due to
cutting down of trees for firewood and
charcoal burning.
Opportunity in the area
• There is a lot of organic waste which has not
been having any economic value in the area
but instead has been a health hazard.
• The wastes include tree leaves that fall with
change of seasons as well as during pruning of
hedges, agricultural wastes such as spoilt
kales, rice husks, left over foods from hotels
and institutions, animal wastes such as
chicken droppings, cow and pigs dung.
Project goal
• Educate the community on how to convert the
waste into an economically valuable resource by
generating fuel and income from the waste.
This not only helps in managing the waste and
conserving the environment, but also have added
benefits of having a cheaper and renewable energy
source as well as receiving additional income by
selling the surplus fuel, therefore improving the
community’s livelihood.
Project objectives
• To produce a product which is cheap and burns for
longer time with less smoke which is a chronic health
hazard.
• Convert waste to energy
• Decrease the cutting of tress for fuel wood and
charcoal burning.
• Build capacity of trainers of trainers at community level
• Create sustainable income generating activities in
renewable energy while connecting research to the
local communities through appropriate renewable
energy technologies.

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Main project activities
• Training community groups and youth groups on
how to prepare raw materials for making
briquettes
• Training the community on the ratio of raw
material and binding agent for different organic
wastes and how to mix them
• Training the community on calculating the cost of
production, packaging, marketing and financial
record keeping
• Training selected community members as trainer
of trainers in renewable energy
Project impact
• Has resulted in an alternative source of fuel, the briquettes,
which is cheap, safe and burns for a long time with less
smoke as compared to fuel wood and charcoal. This
contributes to achievement of SDG 7
• The use of organic waste saves a number of tress which
would have been used as fuel wood or charcoal burning,
contributing to SDG 15.
• It reduces the problem of solid waste management where
the waste is converted to energy hence ensuring
sustainable consumption and production patterns in line
with SDG 12.
• The community is being economically empowered through
the sale of surplus briquettes as well as being self-
employed thereby ending poverty as per SDG 1.
A community group being trained Demonstration session
Exhibition at KEFRI open day 2019 Project focal points
• Loise Waiyaki – HERI Foundation –
loise.waiyaki@gmail.com
• Mr. Douglas Kinyanjui – HERI Foundation –
kinyanjuidougie@gmail.com
• Dr. Esther Lesan Kitur – Kenyatta University –
estherkitur2015@gmail.com or coordinator-
rcegn@ku.ac.ke

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