By Jacqueline Seeley | Director of Development
Dear Friend,
Good day and we hope all is well from the team here at the High Atlas Foundation.
Today, I'd like to share with you a specific update for the nursery development in the Essaouira Province.
The key to sustainability has been the participatory planning approach, which thanks to funding from the National Endowment for Democracy has replicated in Essaouira. This training will make your contributions to the organic fruit tree and medicinal herb nurseries all the more important as it will ensure that there are people capable of managing and developing the nurseries you help build.
The aims of this project are to train 5 local people to be trainers in participatory approaches; creation and management of cooperatives; organic agriculture; project implementation and evaluation and participatory data collection. These 5 people will then go into the field to engage local association and cooperative members, elected women and community leaders in these techniques and subjects with a view to supporting further human development in Essaouira Province. Specifically, we hope this project will underpin the functions of the Cooperative Amoud Mogador – the creation of which HAF has facilitated – and the organic tree and plant nursery HAF plans to create in partnership with the coop, ultimately creating greater linkages and dynamism in local civil society. With the networks and capacities built through this training program, we hope to identify local projects and partnerships for future funding through the income generated by the Amoud Mogador Cooperative and HAF’s social enterprise, HA3.
The pictures below are from the September 27-28 workshop where the trainees learned about the Communal Charter and how to proactively intervene in its creation in order to promote local human development. Their trainer was Mr Mustapha Neflous of the Moroccan National Human Rights Council (CNDH).
Here at the High Atlas Foundation we would like to thank you for your continuous support which is critical to building sustainable development. We look forward to providing you with further updates and hearing your ideas for sustainable development.
Kind regards,
Jacqueline
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