The goal:

How to promote Eco-Villages

Coops / Co-Housing,

and Appropriate Technologies

 ...  in Rwanda  ... and in all Africa !

Rwanda may become a leader in these fields by ...

>> Organizing an African Ecovillage Summit in 2024-2025 including housing cooperatives and co-housing adapted to the urban environment and Appropriate Technologies
>> Creating an international resource and training center in Rwanda related to these themes - Create a National Agency for Ecovillages and Housing Cooperatives + Appropriate Technologies
>> Creating model eco-villages in rural areas and housing cooperatives or co-housing in urban areas
>> Creating training centers across the country
>> Creating the equivalent of : (in partnership with them)

... the Barefoot College in India (women-centered, global network dedicated to sustainable development) www.barefootcollege.org/
The villages should be used for their own development www.barefootcollegetilonia.org/

Barefoot College Zanzibar: http://barefootcollege-zanzibar.org/

 
  ... the Schumacher College in UK (International College for Ecological Studies):    www.facebook.com/schumachercollege/

>> Promoting research and dissertations on these types of habitat within schools of architecture and universities in partnership with institutions of other countries

Suggestion of some dissertation topics: 

https://www.habiter-autrement.org/37-ecovillage-afrique/19-eco-afro.htm 

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https://www.habiter-autrement.org/37-ecovillage-afrique/01-eco-afro.htm  

www.habiter-autrement.org/37-ecovillage-afrique/10-eco-afro.htm  

>> Technologies appropriées et échanges Nord-Sud

https://www.habiter-autrement.org/31_sud-nord/nsn.htm 

Contributions, correction, participation to update this website, translation

... you are welcome !

Just contact me: lreyam@gmail.com

 
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WHAT IS AN ECOVILLAGE

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Today’s definition (June 2017) from the GEN website is the following: “an ecovillage is an intentional, traditional or urban community using local participatory processes to integrate ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to regenerate social and natural environments”

Unfortunetly GEN Africa exists today only on paper!
GEN Africa is the African ecovillage network, promoting social resilience, environmental pro­tection and restoration of nature through the concept of ecovillages as models for sustainable human settlements.
https://ecovillage.org/region/gen-africa/ 

2014: The Senegalese Ecovillage Network: The Past, Present and Future - PDF / 44p  - by Troy Olivier ... after the Global Ecovillage Summit in Dakar
https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/drupal_files/files/5_report_senegalese_ecovillage.pdf

The GEN (Global Ecovillage Network) includes three major regions. Europe has 20 national networks; in North and South America there are 9 bioregional networks; Asia has a less developed network, Africa has just formed its first regional network. The networks include both the intentional communities of the North and the traditional villages of the South. No one knows exactly how many ecovillages exist.
http://environment-ecology.com/ecovillages/383-the-ecovillage-movement-.html

+ more Information:

https://www.habiter-autrement.org/05.eco-village/eco.htm 

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WHAT IS A COOP or CO-HOUSING

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A housing cooperative or "co-op" is a type of residential housing option that is actually a corporation whereby the owners do not own their units outright. Instead, each resident is a shareholder in the corporation based in part on the relative size of the unit that they live in.
South Africa: Housing co-operative s emerged during the 1990s
https://www.housinginternational.coop/co-ops/south-africa/

+ more Information:
https://www.habiter-autrement.org/04_co-housing/coh.htm 

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WHAT ARE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES

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Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology 

Well-known examples of appropriate technology applications include: bike- and hand-powered water pumps (and other self-powered equipment), the universal nut sheller, self-contained solar lamps and streetlights, and passive solar building designs.

https://www.appropedia.org/Appropriate_technology

+ more Information:

https://www.habiter-autrement.org/31_sud-nord/nsn.htm 

and https://www.habiter-autrement.org/37-ecovillage-afrique/38-eco-afro.htm

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  ... some references in short
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Nourish - This African Ecovillage is Building a Conscious and Sustainable Future 2021 - located 30 kilometres outside of Kruger National Park in South Africa - With a focus on education, conservation, sustainable farming, tourism and economic empowerment
https://www.environment911.org/This-African-Eco-village-is-Building-a-Conscious-and-Sustainable-Future 
https://www.nourishecovillage.com/

Each village should have this polyvalent Rainwater Court 

https://www.habiter-autrement.org/37-ecovillage-afrique/52_eco-afro.htm

Mahiga Rainwater Court - In 2009, Nike awarded The Nobelity Project, in partnership with Architecture for Humanity https://www.nobelity.org/rainwater-court

Building Hope  The Story of Mahiga Hope High School - Kenya - 1:11:50
https://youtu.be/zYTxwtFbT0w

Coop:  La Suisse leader mondial, avec le Canada
https://pages.rts.ch/emissions/temps-present/9406511-cooperatives-dhabitants-plus-belle-la-vie.html
Par exemple à Genève: www.cooperative-equilibre.ch/projets/soubeyran/
Avec notamment le lombricompostage pour traiter les matières fécales

www.laliberte.ch/news-agence/detail/geneve-les-vers-de-terre-font-bien-leur-job-a-soubeyran/453717

Canada: Coop  https://cooperativehabitation.coop/

Canada: Co-Housing  https://cohousing.ca/
USA: Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage  https://www.dancingrabbit.org/
USA: How to create a tiny house village  https://www.shareable.net/

Scandinavia Co-Housing: link  PDF

The Meaning and Relevance of Ecovillages for the Construction, of Sustainable Societal Alternatives  2017 - 18p
https://www.scielo.br/j/asoc/a/SBPN4Q3Mj6PmxDzbW6XsgBH/?lang=en

Conference TED: Kosha Joubert: Ecovillage Living – A new source of hope
In this largely illustrated talk, Kosha Joubert shares how community-led regeneration can become a source of solutions for today’s societal challenges. Kosha takes us on a journey around the globe to discover ecovillages, envisioning a world of empowered citizens and communities, designing and implementing their own pathways to a sustainable future, and building bridges of hope and international solidarity. TED Geneva
How can we transform our communities, organisations and societies into systems of cooperation, creativity and innovation for a planet at peace with itself.
https://www.tedxgeneva.net/talks/kosha-joubert-ecovillage-living-new-source-hope/ 

United Nations: Ecovillage Initiative for Achieving the SDGs
1. Community-based Ecovillage Transition: Identify local change-makers and inspirational communities to become hubs for Climate Change adaptation and mitigation../..
2. Green Schools for Sustainable Communities: Schools as entrance points to communities../..
3. Through an Adaptive Governance Cycle, such approaches can be scaled up to become regional and national programs for Ecovillage Transition ../..
https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/ecovillage-initiative-achieving-sdgs

Greening the desert in Jordan by Geoff Lawton https://youtu.be/S2wvrH9amrA
https://www.greeningthedesertproject.org/
Geoff Lawton: Surviving Collapse, Designing your Way to Abundance
https://youtu.be/01N-kBSdiZI

Contact: Roland Mayerl  lreyam@gmail.com  
french architect, retired in Switzerland      

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