Category:SHALIN

SHALIN Suomi is registered as a Not-for Profit Organisation in Finland. SHALIN facilitates capacity building, information exchange and the search for common ground and strategies between groups or communities so that they become better equipped to design and determine their own future.

We seek to improve the engagement and dialogue between the different Global South partners at the national and international level for the protection of biological and cultural diversity and to protect the integrity of our ecosystems.

We support community lead initiatives that enhance cultural and biological biodiversity through networking, information campaigns, green enterprise development, promotion of positive social change and volunteerism.

Sustainable Development is a two way process. In this regard, SHALIN Suomi ry is convinced on the need to focus our attention at developing innovative and empowering strategies with local communities whose livelihoods concerns are not well represented at various levels of dialogue either at the national or international level. SHALIN ry has a keen interest in global development trends and specifically the interpretation of development concepts by vulnerable communities, to this end, we seek to network different groups or individuals who play a catalysts role in this area with a view of building a critical mass that translates those concerns into action and support positive inclusion. We also focus of highlighting the conceptual differences in the understanding of development and how different development paradigms contribute to the strengthening or to the weakening of counterpart cultures, societies or the global communities.

Visit our sister community networking site Friends of Udongo and the Knowledge Tree site where we are compiling information based on feedback from the field on the different aspects of Forest Functions and how communities are using these functions to support their livelihoods and boost their resilience to Climate Change.

SHALIN Suomi ry being a networking organisation, is working closely with various partners that include Porini Trust, ERMIS Africa, IPACC, BEA International, IIED. Through these partners we are building networks that empower communities and the civil society so that they are able to engage better at all levels. Our work is to actively support networking activities of groups primarily based in the Global South.

Besides our MFA (FORMIN) supported project in Kenya, SHALIN Suomi ry has other initiatives that rely on volunteers. We have a Community Tourism Initiative in Maralal, Kenya, the RESCUE network on Energy and Climate Change.

On climate change, our target is the global civil society to enter into a conscious climate change mitigation contract with local communities through direct action. Through this collaboration, there will be direct translation of the benefits to actions that supports the environment, education, climate mitigation, and enterprise development for the rural communities in the global South