Case Studies & Articles

Illustration of an Arborloo by Tanya Haldipur Project Overview 8 arborloo toilets were built for shared household use for new arrivals in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda by refugee-led UNIDOS Social Innovation Center, in partnership with Re-Alliance. When full, these portable toilets will be moved for continued use and trees will be planted on the full pits.  The project showed the potential for lower cost arboloos to be rapidly built to respond to influxes of new arriva

Re-alliance Co-ordinator Juliet Millican shares her thoughts after a work trip to Ethiopia I have just returned from 2 weeks in Ethiopia, training researchers in participatory research methods and interviewing representatives from government, INGOs and NGOs working in climate and conflict displacement.  The trainee researchers, many from a local university, were informed, enthusiastic and passionate, keen to work closely with local displaced communities to explore their exper

A statement on this week's UN Environment Programmes Emissions Gap Report ahead of COP30. We are in a dire place, but that doesn’t mean we should sit back and let corporate greed in the minority world ruin us all. We can take action. Community-led regenerative movements offer us a clear pathway forward. We need Nature-based Solutions grounded in land-based wisdom.