Overview

Goals

ERuDeF’s main objectives are:
i) To develop priorities and strategies for addressing relevant rural and environmental issues
ii) To provide local communities with the means to efficiently manage their natural resources and to alleviate poverty
iii) To develop successful and/or potentially successful strategies for mobilising communities and people to conserve their natural resources
iv) To promote women’s role in conservation and development through training and support of women PROGRAMS
v) To combat against deforestation, land degradation and desertification
vi) To promote alternative sustainable development strategies in rural areas including development of alternative models of rural financing.
vii) To promote advocacy, education, training and information programmes that increase people’s awareness of environmental problems as well as human issues (e.g. environmental health, HIV/AIDS) affecting environmental management and their remedies.