A. PROBLEM STATEMENT
Africa and indeed global south bear brunt of world climate-crisis worsened by climate-inaction at grassroots on account of global north climate financing-gaps & global south governments presiding over informal economies that tax less hence thin
in climate-action expenditure. It’s against this background that TEMBEA FUTURES INSTITUTE initiated village CAN Project. Climate-crisis manifests through climate changes in ways that pose increasing risks to people and ecosystems, evidenced by weather extreme-events:

a) Unpredictable weather-patterns.

(b) Destructive-floods.

(c) Prolonged-droughts.

(d) Disease outbreaks.

(e) Low-farmland productivity.

(f) Declining-livestock.

(g) Rising sea-levels.

(h) wild-fires.

(i) heat-waves etc.

Further, scientific evidence shows that frequency, intensity and duration of these extreme-events will likely increase hence it will be important to build climate-smart systems, especially around community-livelihoods and in the education-sector. According to UN, climate-adaptation funding-gap is 50% higher than estimated. UNEP estimates annual financing shortfall
for adaptation alone now stands at $194-366 billion, with existing financial flows reaching just $25 billion during 2017-2021 period. Wealthy nations failed to deliver $100 billion in annual climate finance by 2020. In 2019, climate-disasters Insurer SWISS RE says extreme-events cost global economy $146 billion despite 50-80% disasters being un-insured. Economists warn climate-inaction could lead to the next big financial crisis considering likely climate-induced changes in asset-valuations, loan-pricing, insurance-claims, and productivity-capacities leaving vulnerable countries exposed to devastating climate-change impacts. Though climate-change is a rising priority in governmental policy agendas, its often not translated into scale-up programs, funding is often limited and resources under-estimated. It’s now a reality that No one nation can solve the financing-gap hence urgent need for vulnerable countries, especially in Africa to explore options away from industrialized nation’s funding frameworks. Funding options rooted in voluntary-contributions is opportune, especially from populations living proximal to each other i.e. college students/informal economy sector grassroots (village) households. Informal economy villages don’t understand, prepare for nor limit future extreme climate-change events. Further, they do not have direct access to finance and decision-making power over how adaptation actions are defined, prioritized, designed, implemented, progress-monitored and success-evaluated. Proactive leadership on climate-action now demands and requires knowledge and insight from partners across social, practice, educational, economic and governmental spectrum.

WHO WE ARE

We are a premier Sustainable Development Goal (SDG13) inspired village climate actors network pioneering own source climate finance for all villages, powered by Student Apprentice Hubs (SAH) and Village Climate Academies (VCA). The village climate actors network enables all villages take urgent action to combat climate-change/its impacts through

a) identifying stable but unjust equilibrium in any economic sector causing their exclusion.

(b) developing climate-smart value propositions.

(c) creating new stable but just equilibrium releasing their trapped potential.

For every defined community usually a County, Village CAN PROJECT targets to on board, enable and work with 20 founder apprentice mentors, 180 apprentice mentors, 600 student apprentices, 24,000 young climate mentors, 240,000 pupil food foresters supported by over 5,000 students from 1 public university and 240,000 households from 2,400 villages in a campaign that aims to activate 7 climate finance vehicles and 120,000 village smart enterprises unlocking $14.7 million annually in own source climate financing!

WHAT WE DO

Market-activations, Finance-innovations, Smart-entrepreneurship, Data-automations, youth-apprenticeship, business process outsourcing, extension-services, model skills-curricula, market-philanthropy, off-grid infrastructural-connectivity.