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The Global Goals Initiative
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The 2030 Global Goals
The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The 17 SDGs are integrated—they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.“ United Nations Development Program What are the Sustainable Development Goals, and why do they matter?
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What’s the central component of the “ReWrite Our Story” Global Goals Initiative?
Through its unique “ Employ to Plant ” program, the ReWrite Our Story Global Goals Initiative provides both jobs and fair income for villagers living in extreme poverty. Since 2007, it has created sustainable livelihoods via the work involved in planting and protecting new mangrove forests — and in the process — has transformed lives and landscapes in these under-served communities. This innovative approach for simultaneously addressing the major humanitarian and environmental challenges of our time is also being leveraged as a holistic program to impact 12 of the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for our current and future generations.
In order to maximize the benefit for both people and planet, the island nation of Madagascar serves as the focal point for the on-the-ground activities of the ReWrite Our Story Global Goals Initiative. Madagascar has the third highest rate of extreme poverty in the world — 75% of people live off less than $1.90 a day. The population is also enduring the world’s first climate-induced famine. As the fourth largest island on earth, it is also classed as one of 17 mega-diverse countries. However, due to deforestation, more than 90% of the entire country’s forests have been destroyed. To further compound matters, at least 75% of the species found in Madagascar do not live anywhere else on Earth ! In short, the conditions in Madagascar combine to multiply several-fold the program’s potential benefits for the environment and human well-being. The primary and secondary benefits (supporting 12 of the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals) fall into the 4 key categories outlined on the next pages. Maximizing the Environmental and Humanitarian Impact for People & Planet
ReWrite Our Story is listied on the UN's own Partnership Platform as SDG Acceleration Action #47972 . How One Act Can Impact Extreme Poverty & Inequality
It supports the UN's vision of a more sustainable, and prosperous future by directly addressing 12 of the 2030 Goals in these 4 areas!
Poverty & Food Insecurity (Goals 1, 2, 3 & 6) Human Potential & Empowerment (Goals 4, 5, 8, 10) Climate Action &
Sustainability (Goals 12 & 13 ) Environmental & Wildlife Conservation (Goals 14 & 15 ) People
Poverty & Food Insecurity
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UN SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Modest donations from individuals around the globe are creating sustainable livelihoods and increasing household income in these vulnerable communities. Since 2007, over 12,000 Malagasies have reaped the benefits of fair wage employment through Employ-to-Plant projects. augment families’ ability to reduce hunger, secure healthcare, and gain greater access to clean water . In total, the Employ-to-Plant land restoration movement currently provides 56,692 people globally with access to high-quality food. Similarly, enhanced food and income security Recent employee surveys show that the increases in household income directly provides over 40,000 families with access to healthcare and education around the globe.
UN SDG 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
As part of Employ-to-Plant programs, fresh water wells are drilled within project communities, and these help maintain and expand the land restoration projects, as well as seedling nurseries. Concurrently, the wells provide inhabitants easy access to clean water for their daily needs. This provision is vital, as Madagascar ranks third- from-last in the world in terms of access to safe water. While 82% of urban residents have access to clean water, only 34% of rural residents do. It also ranks fourth-from-last in access to sanitation. Among the 83% of inhabitants who live in rural areas, only 6% have access to safely managed sanitation facilities.
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Potential & Empowerment
UN SDG 8: Promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth; full and productive employment; and decent work for all
By creating fair wage employment via carefully- structured land restoration projects, the Global Goals Initiative literally changes the trajectory of lives for families living in extreme poverty. The individual experience of one employee at a n project site in Madagascar provides a useful insight into the transformative impact of the program’s outcomes: Now in her tenth year of land restoration work, Maman’i Kambana has been employed at Eden since 2014. When she started, her income was so small that she couldn’t afford to educate her two children, but today they are both full-time students, and she has even started her own small business!
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UN SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
The majority of employees are women and many leadership roles at Employ-to-Plant project sites are held by women. Creating sustainable livelihoods and increasing household income in these local communities act as a practical strategy for tackling global inequality — a central focus of the Global Goals. What’s more, recent surveys of employees confirm that, in addition to helping participants meet food, healthcare and clean water needs, the program also delivers a range of key ancillary benefits for their families, including access to grade schools, enhanced resources to pay off debts, and even the ability to start micro-enterprises.
Climate Action & Sustainability
UN SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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Climate Action & Biodiversity Loss
Mangroves are native to a limited band of global locations, including Madagascar. Here, at the 600-hectare site supported by the Global Goals Initiative , currently just $20 will create one full day of work — and fair income — enabling a community member to plant 100 mangroves! Nothing is more critical to global climate-change mitigation than removing existing carbon from the air as swiftly as possible. By focusing on the restoration of mangroves, we mobilize one of the world’s most effective natural means of combating global warming. Compare mangrove forests to terrestrial ones: Studies indicate that mangroves sequester 2-5 times the CO2 equivalent of a mature tropical rain-forest.
SDG 14: Conserve and use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
The fact that mangroves are so efficient in sequestering carbon is just one reason why they are seen as a key element in tackling global climate change. Mangrove land restoration also provide s vital habitats for wildlife and restores fisheries and estuaries, which are essential breeding grounds for ocean life. Also, mangroves have a very dense root structure that helps to prevent harmful erosion and protect vulnerable coastlines from extreme events like rising seas and flooding. So, the Global Goals Initiative creates an enhanced level of climate resilience for the challenges that vulnerable communities will face in the future due to global warming.
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Environmental Conservation
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UN SDG 15: Conserve and elevate our relationship with our planet
The restoration of forests is especially critical to the preservation of biodiversity in an ecological “hotspot” like Madagascar, where 90% of the primary forests have been lost and 75% of the species found in Madagascar are endemic to the island. The Forest and Landscape Restoration approach used as part of the Global Goals Initiative project encompasses the best of both reforestation and restoration. While reforestation involves the natural or intentional regeneration of tree cover after forest loss, restoration goes beyond simply replanting trees. It’s about aiming to recover the structure, biodiversity and functioning of an ecosystem: bringing back the entire web of life that was once present. It is a more holistic and longer-term method of restoration and conservation, delivering more comprehensive benefits to communities and the ecosystem services we all depend on.
UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Vital work is done to support communities through the adoption of agroforestry, beekeeping and/or conservation agriculture. This reduces pressure on the forests while building viable incomes, food security and nutrition, long-term resilience, and enhanced success at restoration efforts. So, this holistic restoration approach serves to mitigate the drivers of deforestation. Practically speaking, it employs local community members, plants new trees, restores and maintains biodiversity, and facilitates diverse and sustainable livelihood options.
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People, Planet & Prosperity
Through combining an “ Employ to Plant ” approach with Forest and Landscape Restoration best practices, the ReWrite Our Story Global Goals Initiative offers a holistic solution that simultaneously works to support long-term environmental and human well-being. The chart below provides a simple overview of how this one innovative program works to impact 12 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
GLOBAL GOALS SOLUTIONS
CHALLENGES
Poverty & Food Insecurity
Employ to Plant projects create livelihoods in under- served communities. Living wages will directly alleviate food insecurity and support human well-being. Increased income provides access to schools, funds to pay off debts, and the ability to start micro-enterprises. The majority of employees are women, many of whom hold managerial positions Mangroves store more carbon per unit area than any other ecosystem on earth. Mangrove reforestation also increases resilience in the face of future climate change. Forest & Landscape Restoration best practices work to revive the full web of life of the ecosystem . All donors receive a Sustainable Solutions series dedicated to creating a low-carbon lifestyle & sustainable consumption habits.
The Geography of Extreme Poverty
Human Potential & Empowerment
Climate Action & Sustainability
Environmental & Wildlife Conservation
Changing Landscapes & Lives
hectares at coordinates: 15°58’28.60”S/46°18’51.54”E The planting area at the dedicated site for the Global Goals Initiative is 592
The planting site employs an average of
116
local staff every month
The teams work an average of
21
days at the site every month
The program has helped to plant an average of
trees a month over the last year 48,736
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