Project

Sustainable Energy Project – Karatu is a Danish support project, which helps the people in Karatu District to build and install improved stoves and biogas plant at there houses and farms. You will here find information about the problems the project tries to solve, about the objectives of the project and the target group for the project. You can also find information and descriptions of the stoves and biogas plants which have been build as well as information about the principles behind biogas and improved stoves.

Sustainable Development

It is a basic principle behind this project that it aims after supporting a Sustainable Development in Karatu District. Sustainable Development has developed to be a common used concept. The consequence of that is that Sustainable Development has got many different interpretations and has been used in many different ways and connotations. You will here find information about the historical development of the concept Sustainable Development, and on some of the different interpretations of the concept and of how it has been used. We will also explain how we use the concept of Sustainable Development in our project.

Sustainable Energy

Energy is important for people in all its many doings; we would not be able to exist without energy. In the industrialised world energy has become something we take for given. Most people do not ask questions about the sustainability of our present energy use. The only issues people are concerned about with energy is the price and now also climate changes. For the people in Karatu District energy is not something which is taken as given. Here it becomes still more and more difficult to find the necessary fuelwood. The use of fuelwood also brings along many environmental problems and health risks. Sustainable Energy seems a very far away thing in Karatu. You will here find information on Sustainable Energy and on how this concept has developed. You can also read about how people in Tanzania and Denmark experience energy in different ways. We will also explain how we use the concept Sustainable Energy in our Project.

Tanzania - Karatu

Tanzania is a very varied country and the Tanzanians a very friendly and warm people. We will here provide you with some basic information about Tanzania and its people. We will also give some links to further information about Tanzania. Karatu is a district in the northern part of Tanzania. It is a area with a splendid nature, it is also close to the big National Parks. We will here provide you with information about Karatu District.

Education

A global and local Sustainable Development can only be created if we all participate in a process where we reflect and engage in a dialog about how to create Sustainable Development, and just as important that we all give our contribution to this process by engaging in concrete actions for Sustainable Development. Education is an important element in such a process. UN has therefore in 2005 started a Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. We will here provide you with information about Education for Sustainable Development.

The Partners

The project is a partnership between a Tanzania NGO and a Danish NGO. You can here find information about the two partners
Karatu Development Association.
Øko-net.