Project Results
The proposed project had a demonstrative impact driven initiative of change through school students in urban and rural settings and have contributed in awareness building amid the urban and rural masses as to safeguarding and conserving the biodiversity.
Through the provision of school events in 24 primary and high schools and distributed 50,000 comic books the project has helped raise the knowledge and information level of tens of fifty thousands of school students and teachers at 32 schools in 16 districts of Kunar and 32 schools in nine district of Nooristan provinces and most of the students and teacher has taken actions for conservation of biodiversity, controlling of the urban pollution, taking care of their environment and securing a clean and healthy environment.
In addition, the interventions carried out throughout the project were aligned with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 13 which is to ?Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts? and SD goal number 15 of ?Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss?.
1- Fifty thousand (50,000) comic books printed and distributed in the target provinces.
2- Three teacher's guides are available for use in the digital (PDFed) formats.
3- NEPA, MAIL, civil society organizations (CSOs), education shuras, and directorates of education (DoEs) on the provincial and local levels engaged in the distribution process.
4- The comic books are available on the public servers (in the free domain) for download by the public and reprint/distribution by over 100 booksellers free of cost.
5- Totally 24 awareness sessions conducted with children in Kunar and Nuristan.
6- Pelabo coordinated with the Afghanistan Ministry of Education (MoE) and included "environmental protection" as a mandatory subject in all academic disciplines at the school level in Afghanistan. It is worth mentioning that the inclusion of "environmental protection" in the education curriculum took place on July 14, 2021.