Ideal Africa Initiative (IAI) is committed to scaling down carbon emission through implementation of sustainable agricultural practices. We work with communities in Kajiado and Turkana who have been affected by climate change to help them adapt to more sustainable agricultural practices. In addition to these, we are members of the generation restoration; we believe that we can work with school going children at an early age and encourage them through experiential learning to become climate change ambassadors through adoption of sustainable agriculture. We are passionate about women as they are often left with the burden of heavy lifting in times of crisis and in the wake of climate change. We work with women to enable them to become resilient by providing hands-on experience on sustainable agriculture, and adoption of clean energy options for them in their households. Our programs on clean energy target girls and youthful women who are primarily the onces who have to fetch firewood and prepare meals in the communities, by helping communities establish energy efficient stoves it helps reduce the exposure to GBV for the youthful women and girls and at the same time reduces their chances of being exposed to energy poverty (reduced time in school, increased risks to respiratory diseases.)

Key achievements (past 8 months)
• Trained 33 women who are household heads in Mile 46 Kajiado West on climate smart agriculture. (Distributed vegetables seeds, demonstrated nursery bed preparation, demonstrated transplanting, advocated and implemented alternatives to dealing with pests and diseases using organic methods that are climate friendly, helped the women dispose extra vegetables at the nearby market)
• Trained 120 women from Enashipai cooperative on climate smart agriculture and distributed seeds to them.
• Helped male maasai members who lost their livestock as because ofe 2021/2022 drought learn and practice organic farming of maize, vegetables and pumpkins, and now they are selling maize harvests.
• Established kitchen gardens in Elangata Waus primary school that are currently providing organic vegetables to the school children weekly.
• Refurbished Moipei primary school kitchen gardens and helped the school community understand what they missed out during the installation process.
• Established a poultry farm within Moipei Primary school with a potential of providing 25% of eggs to the school community while selling excess eggs to cater for the feeds and vaccines.
• Trained a group of forty women from Olgulului in Amboseli on climate smart agriculture in collaboration with the Malkia initiative, we demonstrated how to plant in sacks a technique that requires little water to grow.
• Conduct an assessment in Kajiado West on the effects of climate change and how communities are building adaptation mechanisms.
• Trained 20 women in Mile 46 Kajiado women on how climate change intersects with gender based violence and pathways to mitigation.The women requested for further training with their spouses to have the same understanding and be able to work together to mitigate these changes.
• During our Procurement process at Elengatta Waus and Moipei we were able to source materials and equipment from local suppliers thus engaging the wider community in the project.