Green Living Movement

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Green Living Movement

• Sustainable Development
• Through Community Participation

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What is GLM?

• A Zambian non-governmental organisation (NGO)
  working in
• Environmental awareness
• Sustainable agriculture
• Food and Income security
• Community Capacity building
• Campaign, Advocacy and Lobbying
• Infrastructure development
• Gender and HIV/AIDS awareness

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How did it all begin?

• A group of journalists were concerned about the
  lack of environmental awareness and its linkage
  to poverty in Zambia.
• In 1997 The Green House Foundation (GHF) was
  founded to address this issue.
• Three years later the GHF disbanded as it could
  not meet its objectives. The surviving two
  members of the GHF were part of the six
  environment and development enthusiasts who
  founded the Green Living Movement (GLM).
• The GLM was registered as a Non Governmental
  Organisation in May 2000.

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• VISION
• Sustainable environment and livelihoods in a
  poverty free society.
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• MISSION
• To empower communities with environmentally
  friendly interventions that sustain productivity
  and respond to the needs of society.

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• What does GLM want to achieve?
• Participatory sensitive, environmental rights
  activism and sound natural resource management at
  community and national levels.
• Knowledgeable and innovative leadership
• Practical and balanced livelihood capacities of
  local communities
• National and local policies and practices that
  are just and effectively respond to the plight of
  the poor.
• Documentation of indigenous knowledge and local
  experiences in environmental management and
  social development.

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What does GLM keep in mind?

• The guiding philosophy
• Unless you enter the den, you can not get the
  cubs. Go into the community, live humbly with the
  people as one of them, learn from them, plan with
  them, start with what they know and build on what
  they have.
• Dr James Yen

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What does GLM do?

• Promote and support sustainable agricultural
  practices (agroforestry, organic farming, bee
  keeping, fish farming, livestock production)
• Training
• - Participatory Approaches in Community
  Development (PACD)
• - Leadership skills
• - Conflict management
• - Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME)
• - Campaign, Advocacy and Lobbying (CAL)
• - Gender and HIV/AIDS awareness
• Project management
• Crop marketing
• Community resource mobilization
• Community exchange visits
• Volunteer/student placement

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What does GLM do?

• Raising environmental awareness
• Promoting and supporting community health,
  education and infrastructural development
• Consultancy
• Fundraising

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Where does GLM work?
Chibobo Kundalumwanshya Nambo Lwanshimba (Serenje
district)
Chilipamushi (Kapiri Mposhi district)
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Previous projects

• Lukusashi Bridge (2002-03) Edinburgh Global
  Partnership (EGP) in Nambo
• Resource Centres (2003) in Chibobo K/Lumwanshya
• Capacity Building, Land Management And
  Sustainable Environment (2003-07) KEPA
• The Green Times (2003-08) Siemenpuu Foundation
• Health Centre (2004) EGP in K/Lumwanshya
• Fundraising Hammer Mill (2005) EGP in Nambo
• Crop Marketing Centre (2006) KEPA in K/Lumwanshya
• PME (2006) Greengrants
• Community School (2006) EGP Lwanshimba
• Fundraising Hammer Mill (2007) Germany
• Embassy in K/Lumwanshya
• Crop Marketing Centre (2007) KEPA in Chibobo
• Fundraising Hammer Mill (2008) EGP in Chibobo
• Crop Marketing Centre (2008) TUO in Nambo

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On-going projects

• Green Village (Sustainable Land Management and
  community capacity building)
• Community Savings Scheme (Rural Banking)
• Agriculture Community Capacity Building
• Farmer Led Documentation

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Who is GLM working with?

• At community level
• Farmer clubs
• Traditional leaders
• Individual small-scale farmers
• Community development committees
• Government relevant ministries
• Political leadership
• Volunteers/students

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Collaborating partners

• Local Communities, TUO, WWF, ECZ, ZLA, PELUM,
  ESAFF, ZANEEP, KEPA, EGP, SIEMENPUU Foundation,
  Finnish Embassy, German Embassy, CBNRM Forum (WWF)

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What would GLM want to do in future?

• Replicate its work to other parts of Zambia and
  the world
• Develop a sustainable media outreach programme
  (Green Times Newspaper, Green GM Radio station)

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How to contact GLM

• P.O. Box 38254
• Simbeye Building, Room 9
• Kamwala, Lusaka
• Tel. [phone] (EM)
• greenlivingmovement_at_yahoo.com
• www.greenlivingmovement.org