COP 28: "World leaders must integrate women in their decision"- Olanike Olugboji-Daramola

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COP 28: "World leaders must integrate women in their decision"- Olanike Olugboji-Daramola

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For the second time, Olanike Olugboji- Daramola is our guest on Radio Era Environnement, “Your Voice”. For those who don’t know her, she is the founder and executive director of Women Initiative For Sustainable Environment (WISE) in Kaduna State, Nigeria. With her team, she has been working for more than seven years in mobilizing disadvantaged women in this state of more than one million people. WISE provides environmental education and awareness programmes related to climate change, energy, food and water security, and sanitation and hygiene.

Recently, in late November, Olanike Olugboji-Daramola organized a march with 1,000 women in Kaduna state to call for climate justice and better representation of women in the UN climate negotiations.

For the first time, she attends the United Nations Climate Conference to learn and understand how to link it to what she’s doing at the grassroot level. “There are so many information”, she observes. Tomorrow she will participate in a side event on women leaders.
In the podcast “Your Voice”, she explains the challenges and opportunities of women , especially women farmers. Olanike Olugbodji- Daromala clarifies the economic issues and solutions of women she helps in her organization and shares her view on revolving loans which for her are the solution. She highlights the importance of renewable low-rate green microcredit, a finance dedicated to green projects. She advocates this type of funding and rejects grants. Grants for her are not suitable for projects, because of a small amount given and problems of implementation of the projects due to lack of funding in a long term period, she underlines.

As the United States of America updates its Energy Transition Accelarator (which involves carbon market) today and it will take Nigeria as one of its beneficiaries, radio era environnement asks Olugboji- Daramola her view on carbon market. She replies that she needs more information and research on it to tell her view. And it is not her priority, even though she indirectly participated in a program related to the carbon market in Nigeria.

On radio Era Environnement through ” Your Voice”, she describes the impact of climate change in Kaduna State and its consequences in this part of Nigeria for women especially . She tells stories on how her organization brings knowledge and action to women, women farmers through a specific knowledge program and activities related to biomass for instance . She helps indeed women to reach clean technologies for clean cooking facilities.

She introduces herself as an independent person and claims that her Non Governmental Organization is free of any commitment.

At the media center at COP28, she was interviewed by a Brazilian TV

Listen to Your Voice With Olugboji- Daramola- By Houmi Ahamed-Mikidache

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Eraenvironnement.com est un site internet français fondé en 2013 par Houmikouloussoumi ( Houmi) Ahamed à Paris. Il diffuse des articles spécialisés autour du journalisme de solutions. Les mots Era et Environnement sont deux mots anglais et français. Il signifient ère( traduction du mot anglais era) et Environnement (mot français). Era Environnement représente une ambition globale d'impulser une nouvelle approche de l'éducation environnementale à travers le journalisme. Anciennement situé à Paris, Era Environnement était une association de loi 1901 créée en 2016. Elle a été dissoute en 2017. Le site internet publie régulièrement des analyses sur les actions de coopération sud-sud ainsi que les relations nord-sud. Il traite des informations sud-nord liées à l'environnement. Il traite du changement climatique et des questions de développement durable. Fin 2018, Houmi Ahamed s'installe aux Comores, dans l'Océan Indien. S'inscrivant dans sa démarche de journalisme de solutions et d'éducation environnementale, elle dirige en 2019 Era Environnement SARL, une entreprise créée en 2018 dans l'archipel des Comores. Era Environnement SARL mène au mois de novembre 2019 un projet significatif dans petit état insulaire, marquée par de nombreuses crises politiques. Cette initiative innovante vise à former dix jeunes femmes issues de zones rurales et côtières . Le cœur du projet est de mettre en lumière des solutions concrètes face au changement climatique en valorisant les savoirs traditionnels comoriens. Un accent particulier est mis alors sur le village natal des parents de Houmi Ahamed, soulignant l'importance d'une approche communautaire et enracinée dans la culture locale pour l'éducation environnementale. Ce projet se concrétise par la création d'une radio en ligne, radio Era Environnement. Avec le soutien de l'UNESCO, cette initiative illustre l'engagement d'Era Environnement pour des actions pratiques et basées sur l'implication des communautés dans la compréhension des enjeux environnementaux. Aujourd'hui, l'entreprise ERA ENVIRONNEMENT SARL n'existe plus aux Comores. Elle est en phase de restructuration en France. Son objectif actuel est de mettre en œuvre de nouveaux projets qui intègrent spécifiquement la jeunesse, soulignant ainsi davantage son engagement envers les générations futures et le développement durable.