Gender mainstreaming (gender equality and equality) is a crosscutting theme at the heart of Silveira House?s programming, with a recognized need for gender sensitivity when formulating and implementing humanitarian interventions. During implementation, Silveira House will continue to ensure that the mainstreaming is a continuous process. Silveira House will ensure more than 60% of beneficiaries and participants are women across all interventions. Deliberate effort will also be made to ensure that women are equally represented in all capacity building efforts and structures to advance the implementation of this program. Women involvement is essential in building inclusive urban governance, climate governance and environmental sustainability

The Re-greening of urban green spaces project will improve the livelihoods of the host communities through the adoption of aquaponics as a Climate Smart Strategy namely at household level based on learnings and exhibitions at the urban green spaces. The project, through youths, will set up small scale hydroponic systems to produce fish and vegetables that will be sold to the urban green spaces patrons. Awareness of setting up of aquaponics systems will be mainstreamed and for further practical trainings, communities will be referred to Silveira House where the full trainings are being offered. Through routine tracking and monitoring of those that visit the urban green spaces, assessments on adoption at-least one Climate Smart Technology at household level will be reported. The youths that would have set up small scale Climate Smart Technology systems at the urban green zones will be encouraged to set bigger aquaponic systems outside the urban green zones and cultivate them to be a livelihood option. The youths will be linked with organic certifying bodies and linked to organic markets locally and internationally for them to earn an income.