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Youth and the environment: creating educational bridges between Guadeloupe and Dominica

  • 2024 Winner

ACP Environment

The ACP Environnement association, founded in June 2006 in Guadeloupe, has as its primary objective the promotion of sustainable development projects and the preservation of the environment and biodiversity in Guadeloupe and the Caribbean. Composed of Caribbean administrators and volunteers from the economic, institutional, and cultural sectors, ACP Environnement is committed to implementing concrete actions aimed at supporting and implementing innovative initiatives in environmental preservation and the promotion of sustainable development projects. ACP Environnement focuses on four priority areas: (1) Promoting innovative technical solutions for the collection and processing of sargassum seaweed; (2) Supporting reforestation and agroforestry initiatives in the Caribbean; (3) Supporting the development of green mobility in Guadeloupe; (4) Raising awareness and providing education on the environment and biodiversity preservation.

Context

Karibiodiv DOMINICA

As Caribbean islands face rapid ecosystem degradation and traditional knowledge is disappearing, younger generations still lack awareness. Since 2006, ACP Environnement has been working to protect island biodiversity. The Karibiodiv Dominica project aims to co-develop a Caribbean biodiversity education program with Dominican stakeholders, based on practical workshops, the co-creation of educational tools, and networking among young people from Guadeloupe and Dominica, including Kalinago.

The project promotes participatory, intercultural and intergenerational environmental education based on the valuation of knowledge to contribute to the sustainable preservation of island biodiversity in the Caribbean while strengthening cooperation between Guadeloupe and Dominica.

  • In partnership with: Wild Dominique; Kalina Gwada Dominique
Funder(s):
• Coreom
• La Guilde
• The Fondation de France

Project objectives

  • Raising awareness among Dominican and Guadeloupean youth about local biodiversity
  • Promoting environmental cooperation between Guadeloupe and Dominica
  • Create a sustainable network of young people committed to nature conservation

Activities

  • Support for the creation of educational tools on biodiversity
  • Organization of educational workshops and field trips
  • Intercultural encounters between young Dominicans and Guadeloupeans
  • Creation of a shared monitoring and evaluation tool

Direct beneficiaries

  • Young people, educators and community activists from Guadeloupe and Dominica, committed to raising awareness of biodiversity and sharing ecological practices, young Kalinagos

Expected results

  • A functional educational program on biodiversity in Dominica
  • Young people are aware and mobilized in every territory
  • Shared tools for raising environmental awareness
  • Strengthening cooperation between islands on ecosystem protection

A dual support and funding mechanism for overseas civil society organizations, the CORÉOM program – Overseas Regional Cooperation – encourages regional and international cooperation dynamics among associations based in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, and Réunion. Financially supported by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Fondation de France, CORÉOM is implemented by La Guilde, with a set of territorial networks and relay partners in the five territories.

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