Puntland Environmental Protection Effort (PEPE)

Rainwater harvesting, soil restoration, and community recycling initiatives for environmental resilience in Somalia

Puntland Environmental Protection (PEPE) is a constructive strategy that contributes a concrete foundation to preserve and protect the degraded environment in both rural and urban areas in Puntland. This project will help rural communities to preserve their grazing valleys and harvest rain-water to decrease the impact of surface runoff and flood control to stop soil and plant erosion that were active during the last three decades. The project will also establish a garbage recycling scheme to protect the urban and suburban environment where urban wastes are well managed and modernized in order to avoid environmental pollution in both land and sea. Besides that, the project will produce employment for the local communities as well generating wealth from the recycled garbage that has negative impact to the environment. PEPE will establish a garden center to produce an affordable and efficient farm organic inputs for the local farmers to enrich their soil to boost their current poor yield.