SHOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AFRICA (SCCA) is a Non-Governmental, non-political, non-ethnical, non-racial Organization that encourages all to “SHOUT NOW OR NEVER” on climate change issues that may affect us all; formed two years ago; that is made up of scores of professional of various expertise that work with other Organisations, Communities, NGOs, Institution, Companies, Governmental MDA etc in providing services that addresses climate change environmental problems and related issues. Since its creation, SCCA has undertaken some four environmental related assignments working with the local radios, televisions and newspapers and other organisation in address community climate change environmental and related concerns. Key among them was transforming communities from depositing refuse dumps in drainages, support and encouraged communities to contribute and prioritise tree planting and reforestation activities; renewable energy usage to fossil fuels and toward decentralised community-owned and controlled sustainable energy.
Shout Climate Change Africa is an independent campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviors of individuals, to protect, conserve the environment and promote peace. Creating a toxic free nature, SCCA catalyzes the energy revolution to address the number one threats facing our planet: Climate Change. It also hopes to defend our ocean by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves. It also helps in protecting the World’s Ancient forest and the animals, plants and people that depend on them. In conflict and post conflict countries like Sierra Leone, SCCA is working for disarmament and peace by tackling the causes of conflict and consolidate such peace through community engagement. It also helps for sound environment calls for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
SCCA campaigns for sustainable Agriculture by rejecting genetically engineered organisms, It helps in protecting biodiversity by encouraging community/national solution to community problem environmental problems.
The organisation is strongly working with some civil society organizations, development partners, relevant government ministries, departments and agencies to protect the environment and to promote the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals that mainly focuses on the environment. The organisation comprised of 5 core staffs, working with 15 Volunteers and more than 45,000 members in total nationwide. The organisation builds its capacity from its experience in advocacy, campaign, monitoring, community engagements, sensitization and education and reporting on climate change and associated environmental issues.
SCCA has a well-structured management; operates from a coordinating centre in Freetown.
Since its inception, SCCA has undertaken several community engagements resulting in the establishment of voluntary CSO partners in three districts to report on climate change, conservation and environmental issues in their communities.
This project therefore hopes to mobilize the targeted community and engage them to rejuvenating this vital ecology of the forest in these places, whereby more trees are planted for every one cut during the charcoal burning process.
It will create a short impact employment for the youths of the community, and they will claim ownership and protection for it and the ecosystem of these areas will be restored.
Alongside the rejuvenation will include the massive sensitization and advocacy for the community. It will easily be replicated in other places. Land use, climate change will be included in the posters and be used for Exhibition on Wheels in order to reach more people.
TARGET BENEFICIARIES
The targeted beneficiaries are some 500, charcoal burners, farmers and the underprivileged, with focus on youth and women, with a total rippling effect (indirect beneficiaries) of some 5,000 community and other members that depends on charcoal for the heating/cooling source of energy
It will reduce the effect of climate change and improve the ecosystem/biodiversity as citizens negative activities on the environment will be controlled through greater awareness of citizens’ roles and responsibilities on climate change and the environment. It will also create employment for the youths of the communities, and they will claim ownership and protection for it and the biodiversity of these areas will be restored. It is in line with three of the strategic conventions on climate change related issues especially in the contribution to the overall emission reduction (through removal by sink) and that of the ecological and biodiversity restoration. The economic returns from the trees planted will capacitate the youths and communities in the ensuring cooperate responsibility cost benefit sharing that this project will produce.
