Where are projects like this published and promoted? Find sites that list similar projects and find their submission guidelines.
Reforestation World:
- Found at: https://www.reforestationworld.org/our-projects
- Reforestation World requires a form to be filled in by the prospective organisations. This includes details about how to contact them as well as a project description.
- From there, the Reforestation World team reviews any information that can be ascertained about the project, and if the reviewer finds it worthy enough, it will be uploaded to the website, and the organisation may edit the details as they wish from their own account on the site.
- This comes at no price for the person who is submitting the project.
- Their website provides a world map which pinpoints their projects, which you can click on to find more information.
Tree-Nation:
- https://tree-nation.com/projects
- Tree-Nation states that you can make your own webpage within their website, which will then help you gain social media followers and funds for the project.
- They want to make sure that small and large projects can co-exist on their site.
- Their selections are exclusive to ensure quality.
- There are environmental benefits requirements – the project must be able to demonstrate clear benefits, contribute to at least one Sustainable Development Goal, use appropriate species in the project (native species are preferred) and local communities must be interested.
- There are some social benefits criteria – the safety of workers must be protected, gender and minority equality guaranteed, indigenous peoples’ rights respected, and there must be improvement involved for indigenous people in the project.
- There are also project management criteria – this mainly involves the legalities of the management of the project, and support from other organisations.
Treeapp:
- https://www.thetreeapp.org/
- Treeapp advertises sustainable projects and products.
- They guide these organisations through improving their brand awareness and improving themselves. They provide analytics for your company, a call with a campaign manager to get to know the demographic you would like to target for funding.
- They ask that the organisation or company fills in their details to get in touch with, which they will do within a few days, and from that support will be given to those who apply to begin the process of getting advertised on their app.
Mongabay Reforestation Directory:
- https://reforestation.app/?sort=Context&country=All&filters=%5B%5D&embed=false&embedType=null&id=undefined
- The directory provides an online form to submit all the appropriate information in order to get a project advertised on the Reforestation App. Mongabay then uses 36 criteria to filter through the applicants, in order to ensure that all projects advertised are relevant. The projects are organised into the categories of context, ecological, economic, social, and institutional.
- The circular lines used in the advertisement of each project discloses how much information is available from each project, whether the project is still active, etc. Although there are many projects on display, filters can be used to find the project that one would most like to provide funds to.
Who else has suggested Sahara Forests? Make a list of names, websites, social media contacts.
Sahara Forest Project:
This project aims to vegetate uninhabited areas of the Sahara Desert, and in the process, provide water, food and renewable energy for people in areas that are suffering due to a hot climate. A project in Qatar has been completed, after being opened in 2012, and projects in Jordan and Tunisia have been initiated and are in progress. The projects rely on seawater-cooled greenhouses with solar power. Since completing their first project, they have seen results that are better than what they expected.
Website: www.saharaforestproject.com
Email address: info@saharaforestproject.com
Phone number: +47 960 48 828
Mail address: P.O. Box 2141 – Grunerlokka 0505 Oslo, Norway
Visiting address: Vulkan 11, 0178 Oslo, Norway
Great Green Wall:
The Great Green Wall project was founded by the African Union, with aims to fight desertification in the Sahel area and hold back the growth of the Sahara Desert, through the planting of trees that act as a wall. It has also become a way to promote water harvesting techniques, tree protection, and improve indigenous land methods. The idea of a “green front” was first proposed by Richard St. Barbe Baker in the 1950s – an idea which re-emerged in 2002 and was endorsed in 2007. By 2016, 15% of the targeted area to be planted had been planted, and 21 countries had engaged in projects that were related to the Great Green Wall.
Website: https://www.greatgreenwall.org/
Email address: ggw@unccd.int
Mail address: Platz der Vereinten Nationen, UN Campus 53113, Bonn, Germany
Saharan-Roots:
This foundation had its beginnings in 2008, with aims consisting of educating the local populace of the importance of maintaining their environment well, planting trees and cleaning up the area. From 2008 to 2015, Sahara Roots has organised more than 16 tree-planting activities. Their goals are to preserve the Moroccan Sahara, donate the booklet “Me and My Sahara” to Moroccan schools to help educate schoolchildren, and to get more funds to help assist them in their plans.
Website: https://sahara-roots.org/
Email address: info@sahara-roots.org
Phone number: +31 (0)6 5422 7620 or +31 (0)35 623 9658
Mail address: Sahara-Roots Foundation‘s-Gravelandseweg 158, 1217 GA Hilversum, The Netherlands
Who are the experts? If we were to interview them, what questions would we ask? Make a list of 5-10 questions that you could ask each type of expert.
Management at Sahara Forest Project:
- Kjetil Stake – Managing Director and Head of Board – kjetil@saharaforestproject.com
- Frank Utsola – Country Director SFP Jordan – frank@saharaforestproject.com
- Magnus Borgen – Director of Institutional Relations and Communication – magnus@saharaforestproject.com
Mr. Stake has an MA in Economic from College of Europe and a BA in International Economics from The American University of Paris, and has experience in business start-ups. Mr. Utsola was Chief engineer at the Radisson SAS Atlantic Hotel and Director for operations at Radisson SAS Polar Hotel in the past. Mr. Borgen has been educated as a political scientist at the University of Oslo, and was previously Head of Communications at the Bellona Foundation. He has worked as a journalist and written one book.
Management at Great Green Wall:
- Camilla Nordheim-Larsen – ggw@unccd.unt
A very large amount of people works within the organisation. In 2007, the beginning of the organisation, 11 countries were signed up to get involved, but this has since expanded to over 20 countries. The African Union has led the steps taken by these countries.
Management at Saharan Roots:
- Wanda Hebly – President/Founder
- Richard Helby – Vice-President
- Wendelien Helby – Secretary
- Adriaan Helby – Treasurer
- Laurens Helby – Communication, Marketing and Design
Wanda worked as a tour guide in the deserts of Morocco and Jordan, and found an interest in deserts during her stay in the Middle East. The foundation consists of family members in their management.
Questions for those who organise and manage the workforce of the operations:
How many people are involved in the management of your project, in managing the workforce executing the plans?
Have you seen visible improvements since the beginning of your operations, and how do you measure this?
What is something you failed to consider in your planning, or a big problem you had come across at some point?
Did you find that people were eager to get involved? What kind of people made up the majority of the employees?
Have the local indigenous people benefited visibly from the plans that have been executed around their homeland?
Questions for those who organise the planning and make decisions regarding the vegetation:
How did you decide on which species of trees were most appropriate?
Which factors/traits were most important to you during the selection (amount of Carbon Dioxide taken in by the species, cost of the trees, time taken to reach maturity, etc.) and what were your aims when you planned to construct this forest?
How long do you estimate your project will take, or do you expect it to go on indefinitely?
Did you experience any threat of big forest fires, and what did you do to combat this threat?
Did hydrating the plants in the desert go as planned, and did they grow as expected?
Questions for those who manage the economics and marketing of the organisation:
How do you fulfil the funds for such demanding projects?
How do you get knowledge out to people about your project and get people invested in its success?
Did you find that the estimations of how much the operations would cost was indeed accurate?
Do you have budgets and limits as to what you can spend money on in your project?
What were some difficulties you found in managing the money or raising the funds you needed?
Questions for those who invest in these types of projects:
What attracts you the most when deciding which project to invest in?
What are you most looking for when it comes to the results from a project you are investing in?
How and where do you most often find projects to invest in?