Climate and

Environment

Restoring degraded land, protecting biodiversity and helping communities withstand a changing climate.

Protecting the Land Communities Depend On

Understanding how environmental degradation deepens vulnerability, and how AAPV restores the ecosystems households rely on to live.

When the Land Can No Longer Provide

Deforestation, soil degradation and pollution do not affect communities equally — they hit hardest where households depend directly on the land for food, income and fuel. Each hectare lost narrows what a family can grow, each felled tree makes cooking harder and the next dry season more severe. Climate change compounds all of it, turning environmental decline into a driver of poverty in its own right.

Measurable Results, Community by Community

24,982

trees planted with community volunteers — cashew, moringa, tamarind, lemon and terminalia

10+

hectares reforested across fallow land, plantations, hedgerows, community forests and public spaces

46+

pupils supervised in environmental education clubs

40

improved stoves distributed to reduce cooking pollution and deforestation

Acting at Every Stage: Restoration, Prevention and Resilience

Land Restoration Works

We reforest fallow land, plantations, hedgerows, community forests and public green spaces, returning degraded areas to productive ecological use.

Community Tree Planting

We plant cashew, moringa, tamarind, lemon and terminalia trees alongside community volunteers who take part at every stage.

Long-Term Tree Management

We monitor and maintain trees planted in previous seasons, ensuring survival rates rather than counting planting campaigns alone.

Cooking Pollution Reduction

We distribute improved stoves that cut household cooking pollution and reduce the demand for firewood driving local deforestation.

Environmental Education Clubs

We supervise environmental clubs in schools, giving pupils the knowledge and habits to protect the ecosystems they will inherit.

Producer Group Support

We support the organisational development of market gardening and soap-making groups, linking livelihoods to sustainable use of resources.

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Gender-Based Violence

Preventing violence, supporting survivors and equipping the frontline actors they turn to first.

Medical and Mental Health Support

Supporting peace negotiations, recovery and community-led prevention of radicalisation and all forms of violence.

Mobile Clinics

Bringing primary healthcare, reproductive health services and psychosocial support to hard-to-reach communities.

Peace and Social Cohesion

Supporting peace negotiations, recovery and community-led prevention of radicalisation and all forms of violence.

Food Security and Livelihood

Vocational training, food distribution, micro-enterprise start-up kits and Cash for Work opportunities for vulnerable households.

WASH

Building and rehabilitating water points while raising community awareness on hygiene, sanitation and cholera prevention.

Operational and Scientific Research

Field research, situation analyses and needs assessments that inform our programmes and the communities we serve.