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The Role of Youth in Regeneration Across the world, young people are confronting the impacts of climate change, environmental degradation, and displacement. Yet despite being among the most affected, youth are often left out of decisions about the future. At Re-Alliance, we believe young people are not just the future - they are already leading regenerative action today. From restoring water systems and growing food sovereignty to reviving traditional knowledge and organising grassroots movements, youth are at the heart of eco-social regeneration. What’s often missing is support: access to tools, training, networks and opportunities to connect with others doing similar work across regions and cultures. Practical demonstrations at the National PermaYouth Camp, Timor-Leste October 2024 That’s why we’re excited to spotlight the upcoming International PermaYouth Convergence (IPYC–2025) - a global gathering rooted in a powerful youth-led model developed in Timor-Leste by Timorese NGO Permatil (Permaculture Timor-Lorosa’e). Introducing the International PermaYouth Convergence (IPYC–2025) From 20-25 October 2025, youth (aged 17-35) and community leaders from six continents will come together in Ermera, Timor-Leste, for six days of permaculture learning, leadership training, and cultural exchange. The convergence, hosted by Permatil (Timor-Leste) , partner organisation Permatil Global (Australia) , and the newly formed PermaYouth Association of Timor-Leste, will share the successful PermaYouth camp model - which has empowered thousands of youth in Timor-Leste - with the world. The theme of the event, “Planting Water, Growing Communities,” focuses on regenerating ecosystems, applying permaculture approaches and strengthening community resilience through practical, nature-based action. Participants observing an activity at the National PermaYouth Camp, Timor-Leste October 2024    Learn more and register your interest here The PermaYouth Model Since 2008, Permatil has run over 15 regional and national PermaYouth camps, reaching more than 6,500 young people across Timor-Leste. These camps combine permaculture, agroecology, and traditional knowledge with youth empowerment, gender inclusion, and leadership development. Participants learn by doing, gaining skills in: Water harvesting and watershed regeneration Agroforestry and sloping agriculture Community organising and ecological sanitation Cultural preservation and indigenous food systems Camps are inclusive and participatory, prioritising involvement from young women, LGBTQIA+ youth, people with disabilities, and other often-marginalised groups. Many past participants now lead their own projects or play a role in the national PermaYouth Association, which will co-lead the IPYC–2025 and help support future participants as they return home to share what they’ve learned. PermaYouth Camp participants  A Living Laboratory of Regeneration Participants in the convergence will visit Permatil’s demonstration site in Fatuquero, where water management and ecological restoration have transformed degraded land into a thriving community asset. Their “Planting Water” approach has recharged over 20 million litres of groundwater across Timor-Leste, restored springs, improved crop yields, and helped secure year-round food and water access. The site also serves as a platform for innovation, knowledge sharing, and lifelong learning. The convergence will combine this hands-on training with a nightly cultural and music festival, featuring traditional and contemporary performances from Timor-Leste and around the world - a celebration of identity, resilience, and connection. Participants perform at the National PermaYouth Camp evening events  Why It Matters: Relevance to Re-Alliance and the Sector The IPYC–2025 speaks directly to Re-Alliance’s mission: to amplify and scale community-led regenerative approaches in humanitarian and development contexts. It offers a model for how to: Centre youth in resilience-building and regeneration Share knowledge and practices across Global South regions Build long-term capacity rooted in local culture and ecosystems Shift power and resources to grassroots actors The convergence will also launch the International PermaYouth Network (IPYN) - a global alliance of young leaders working to implement permaculture, build eco-social resilience, and support each other across borders. How to Get Involved: Become a Champion Permatil and Permatil Global are inviting Champions from around the world - community organisers, educators, activists, and allies - to help share the opportunity and support local youth to participate. Champions help by: Disseminating event info and encouraging youth participation Supporting delegations with coordination and funding access Acting as local points of contact between communities and organisers You don’t need to attend to be involved. Champion Kits and briefings are available to support your role. More info and Champion sign-up can be found here, or email ipyc-2025@permatilglobal.org Traditional cooking competition at the National PermaYouth Camp  Planting Seeds for a Regenerative Future The International PermaYouth Convergence is an invitation to build a global network of young people leading regenerative action in their own communities. Re-Alliance is proud to support this work, and we invite our members, partners and peers to join. Whether by sending a youth delegation, becoming a Champion, or simply sharing this story, you can help grow this global movement. Because regeneration is about more than restoring ecosystems - it’s about restoring leadership, autonomy, and hope. And engaging youth in this process is essential.

What might Regeneration look like in a humanitarian context? In humanitarian crises, whether driven by conflict, ecological collapse, or systemic injustice, the dominant response remains overwhelmingly extractive . Too often we see degenerative humanitarian responses which meet the basic needs of humans well, but which ultimately deplete the environment and erode community autonomy . Deforestation, drying of aquifers and soil erosion can all be avoided through thoughtful approaches if we plan for the longer term. Regenerative practice reminds us that even in the most urgent conditions, we can design interventions that nurture and collaborate with the living systems upon which all life depends . We need responses that build community autonomy, and relationship with land and other species. A regenerative response is anchored in ethics , described in the Permaculture tradition as Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. Rooted in these ethics, we then work with principles , drawn from deep observation of the living world . A principles-based approach helps our vision and ethics take shape in ways that work with nature, rather than against her . Living systems principles offer very practical and tangible insight, but perhaps more importantly, they offer profound political and cultural lessons on interdependence, resilience, and systemic thinking . In this way, nature-inspired principles are more than guidelines for ecological restoration, and more than simple tools and techniques . They are pathways for transforming and decolonising aid , for disrupting control-based responses, and growing regenerative futures rooted in justice, reciprocity, and care. Healthy ecosystems evolve through complex relationships. They cycle nutrients, they encourage diversity, and they adapt to change. By observing these dynamics, regenerative practitioners translate ecological intelligence into action through design . Let’s explore some of these principles, and see how they might be useful in humanitarian contexts. These principles are inspired by movements like Permaculture and Agroecology, which are in themselves both deeply inspired by Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous wisdom. However, the language we use here is adapted. 🪱 Nurture Diversity In healthy ecosystems, diversity is essential. A forest thrives through the interdependence of many species, each contributing to the health of the whole. Each element in a system relies on others and also contributes to others . Monocultures (of all kinds - ecological or social) are flimsy. Monocultures rely on extra labour and external inputs, and they collapse easily under stress. In humanitarian response, diversity is equally critical. Standardised aid packages often ignore local realities, erasing traditional knowledge and cultural context, and undermining community autonomy. Regenerative responses cultivate diversity.   How might we encourage diversity within our responses and planning? For example, this might be through mapping skills within a community to encourage a healthy exchange of talents and mutual aid. Communities may come together to host an 'Offers and Needs Market' to make their diverse skills and needs more visible. Additionally, diversity can be nurtured alongside boosting nutrition, through growing biodiverse community gardens which encourage a diversity of fresh produce as well as meaningful activity. 🔄 Cycle Resource In wild nature, there is no waste. Fallen leaves feed soil; decomposing matter nurtures new growth. Healthy systems contribute to cycles across scales: cycles of water, nutrients, carbon, and more . Healthy systems ideally have minimal external inputs or outputs, as everything is cycled or exchanged from within the system or across nested systems. Conventional Humanitarian interventions often rely heavily on external inputs and also create a lot of waste outputs. They import food, use lots of wasteful plastic, rely on heavy transport in the supply chains. Sometimes external inputs are necessary when, for example, there has been a natural disaster and there are no local materials to work with. But these conventional interventions create a lot of ecological and social harm. Instead, Regenerative responses encourage cycles. How might we integrate resource cycles into our responses? For example, this could be through   circular sanitation systems , which can enrich soils, increase its water-holding capacity and help grow trees for food, natural medicines, shade, carbon-capture, fuel, building materials, and more. ☀️ Use Energy Flows Energy flows, like the flow of sunlight, sustain life on this planet. A regenerative approach seeks to catch and store both ecological and social energy . For example, capturing sunlight through solar panels, or wind through micro-wind power. Installing rainwater harvesting tanks reduces water stress in future crises. Giving space for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and upskilling through training programmes can build local knowledge that supports recovery beyond the immediate disaster. Even small adaptations, like orienting shelters toward the sun in cold climates to maximise solar gain, reduce energy needs and environmental impact. Catching and storing energy isn't just about infrastructure, but also about the social and relational. How might we create space for people facing crises to share their own talents and wisdom? 🪾 Work with Patterns Nature often organises through recurring patterns , such as branches in a river mirroring branches in trees mirroring the veins in our arms. This is not random, but evolutionary movement toward efficiency and resilience. Healthy ecosystems are full of recurring patterns, big and small, wide and deep . A Regenerative Response pays attention to patterns and integrates them, for example mapping patterns of how sunlight or water moves across a landscape before deciding where to site shelters. What other patterns might you observe when planning action? 🫶 Integrate the Relational Thriving systems are webs of relationships, not isolated parts . More than the sum of its parts, the relationships themselves bring unique and often beneficial dynamics that create change. Regenerative responses deepen into this ‘special ingredient’ of relationship, and does this across scales. We look at relationships between animals, plants, people, place, bioregion, and more. Designing for relationship means thinking about not just the individual ‘shopping list’ of needs in a crisis moment, like shelters, food and water, but about how these interact with one another, how people relate with one another and with the land. If we ignore these interactions, meeting needs in one area can undermine or compromise a need in another. For example, cutting wood for cooking fuel depletes forests, removing habitats for biodiversity, sources of food, natural medicine, or building materials for shelter in the future. Or building shelters from concrete uses extracted resources and water, depleting aquifers, while also stopping rain from permeating soil and refilling aquifers, adding to risks of both drought and flooding. 🔘 Learn from the Edges In the healthy wild, the place where multiple unique ecosystems meet and interact is often the richest and most biodiverse . Think of the edge of a river where the riverine ecosystem meets a meadow. This is often a space of great abundance, with more species living than in just one of the ecosystems alone. ‘Cultural edges’ can also be abundant , like in the space where host and displaced communities meet. If all communities are welcomed, it can become a rich space of exchange. What learning from the edges (social and/or ecological) might you be able to integrate in your work? 🍂 Design for Adaptivity In this polycrisis, we are experiencing change at unprecedented speeds and intensity. But indeed there is always change. Healthy systems are able to deal with shocks and adapt to them . In the face of such extreme changes like the climate and nature crises, we may be past the tipping point of fully halting the devastating changes to our planet, but we can still build ecological and social resilience to help adapt to the changes . Likewise, how might we design humanitarian interventions that are adaptable so that, as changes occur, the people and place are able to deal with those shocks? Principles or a Regenerative Response: A Political Commitment Nature-inspired principles are not apolitical technical fixes. They are commitments to systemic change. They resist extractive, colonial patterns in humanitarianism , instead aiming for whole-systems health over short-term exploitation; community agency over technocratic control; cyclical, resilient systems over linear, dependency-driven models. As the polycrisis intensifies, regenerative principles offer pathways to reimagine humanitarian action. Not as acts of charity, but as meaningful solidarity.

In refugee and IDP settlements across the world, a mobile phone is a lifeline for the people who liver there. But keeping phones charged in these contexts can be costly, unreliable, or even unsafe. That’s where the Wind Mobile project steps in, blending local ingenuity and resources, renewable wind power, and global collaboration to create real-world solutions that work where they’re needed most. an exploded diagram of a design using timber blades that can be built using recycled components Launched by School of the Earth  and supported by Re-Alliance , Wind Mobile set out to tackle a deceptively simple challenge: how can communities in refugee camps charge phones and power small devices using locally made, low-tech wind turbines ? Rather than developing a one-size-fits-all product, the project adopted a phased, community-driven design approach , working with four different networks across Africa and Europe: Wind Empowerment  (West Africa) – For early technical R&D using salvaged hoverboard magnets. Africa Makerspace Network  (East Africa) – To adapt and prototype turbines using recycled loudspeaker magnets. Habibi.Works  (Greece) – For hands-on, refugee-led manufacturing workshops. Re-Alliance Network  – To extend and test designs for diverse humanitarian contexts. One of Wind Mobile’s most inspiring aspects is its commitment to appropriate technology by building what’s needed, using what’s available. Whether it was hoverboard magnets in Côte d'Ivoire or speaker magnets in Uganda and Kenya, each turbine design was shaped by what local communities could find and fabricate themselves . E-waste proved a reliable source of magnets while the skills of simple carpentry and car mechanics could be transferred to manufacturing the turbines. Upcycled speaker magnets were used in the East African designs in Kenya and Uganda Designs were carefully tested, including in university labs and international competitions, proving that hand-crafted turbines made with salvaged parts  can deliver meaningful energy outputs, up to 500 watts in some cases! In October 2024, the Wind Mobile vision came to life in a makerspace near the Katsikas refugee camp  in Greece. Participants from Kenya , Uganda , and Ghana  joined local and refugee makers for a week-long workshop at Habibi.Works . They built turbines, exchanged skills, overcame language barriers, and left with the tools and confidence to replicate the work in their home communities. The event became a melting pot of ideas, cultures, and practical know-how - exactly what the project hoped to achieve. Read the full end-of-project report here

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From Permaculture in refugee settlements, to eco-building in disaster prone regions, to water harvesting in areas severely affected by worsening climate change, Re-Alliance and our members showcase how we can create stability, resilience and abundance, even in times of crisis. What could a regenerative humanitarian response look like? Increasing the impact and influence of regenerative responses to disaster, displacement and development Explore Re-Alliance free guides Re-Alliance promotes a regenerative vision, beyond sustainability, for the humanitarian and development sectors. From Permaculture gardens in refugee camps, to eco-building in disaster prone regions; eco WASH interventions, to integrated nature-based solutions for settlement designing: Re-Alliance members are showcasing how we can create stability, resilience and abundance, even in times of crisis. Watch Re-Alliance Videos Play Video Play Video 07:35 Unidos Social Innovation Centre | Eco-social regeneration in Nakivale Refugee Settlement What could it look like if Refugee Settlements were thriving ecological and social spaces? Unidos Social Innovation Centre is a refugee-led, community-based organisation that engages with young people located in the Nakivale Refugee settlement, South West Uganda. In this video, Unidos founder Paulinho Muzaliwa explains how they support the communities to create abundant Permaculture gardens, grow biodiverse food forests, and build healthy soils. Find out more about Unidos at https://unidosprojects.org/ Donate to Unidos' work here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/water-4-thriving-african-permaculture-group 🎥 7Times Film Production Play Video Play Video 04:41 YAKUM | Protecting and restoring the bio-cultural abundance of the Amazon YAKUM partners with three indigenous nations in Ecuador to turn degraded land into cultural food landscapes. In this film by Remi Bumstead, Re-Alliance member YAKUM explores the importance of Indigenous wisdom in forest protection and restoration, and the abundance that healthy forests can offer in terms of culture, food, and climate resilience. Arley Paraguaje and Nick Ovenden explain why YAKUM rediscover and replant diverse cultural foods, and safely harvest food from standing forests. Find out more about YAKUM's work at https://yakum.org/ 🎥 https://remibumstead.com/ Play Video Play Video 06:08 YICE Uganda | Urine-diversion dry composting toilets Join Winnie Tushabe, co-founder of YICE Uganda, and Ecosan user Uwizeye Salima, in exploring Ecosans. In the Nakivale refugee camp in Uganda, refugees are given a small plot of land to build a dwelling and farm food on. Re-Alliance's partner organisation YICE Uganda (Youth Initiative for Community Empowerment) is working with families to create kitchen gardens but yields are limited because the soil is poor. Re-Alliance and YICE collaborated to build eight urine diverting dry toilets (or ‘Ecosan’ toilets) for families. By separating the urine and faeces, the volume of composting waste is reduced, extending the capacity of the compost chamber and giving an immediate source of fertiliser in the form of urine, which, when diluted 1:10 - 1:20 with water, is an excellent fertiliser rich in nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. Diverting the urine away stops the compost chamber from becoming anaerobic and smelly and the addition of wood ash or saw dust, after using the toilet, acts as a dehydrating cover material. This design used recycled plastic barrels as containers for the faeces, which ensures no ground pollution. Once nearly full, the barrel is moved aside and replaced with a fresh barrel. With the hot composting achieved inside the barrels, compost can be created in under 12 months in the Ugandan climate. The compost is used to enrich the soil around fruiting trees and bushes. Find out more about this design and create your own with our free guides on www.re-alliance.org/publications . Play Video Play Video 30:44 Designing Regenerative Change | Adapting Welcome to Re-Alliance’s Designing Regenerative Change series. Each of these bimonthly sessions focuses on a different stage of regenerative design processes. Grounded in regenerative paradigms and principles, and contextualised with inspiring real world examples from Re-Alliance members and the wider community, you will be guided on steps you can take to bring your regenerative vision to life. The topic of this session is Adaptation. As our contexts are always changing, and as our communities grow and evolve, or if we are faced with disasters or crises, how might we adapt to best meet ever changing needs? Join along with the activity here: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1L2fkfX0dyRz7kKkYT5k5xl136_EgZ-imBGq-QdhdQtA/edit?usp=sharing We are joined by special guest Jehane Akiki, founder of Farms Not Arms, a collective of designers, farmers, strategists, and agriculturalists who have come together to build an integrated, multi-agricultural educational farm model that heals land, health, and community. Farms Not Arms' first farm is in the Beqaa, Lebanon, bringing together refugees and host communities to increase food security, ease climate change, and promote social cohesion. To find out more about re-alliance events, visit re-alliance.org/events. Welcome: (0:00) Introducing Jehane Akiki: (7:15) How do Farms Not Arms integrate adaptive processes?: (12:20) Dispersed decision-making: (15:54) Coming back to your Vision: (18:17) Activity: (24:22) Play Video Play Video 40:54 Designing Regenerative Change | Reflecting Welcome to Re-Alliance’s Designing Regenerative Change series. Each of these bimonthly sessions focuses on a different stage of regenerative design processes. Grounded in regenerative paradigms and principles, and contextualised with inspiring real world examples from Re-Alliance members and the wider community, you will be guided on steps you can take to bring your regenerative vision to life. The topic of this session is Reflection. Once we are in the process of implementation, and we are delivering our regenerative projects, how might we build learning and reflection into the process? How might we be open to the things that go well, and also the things that don't go well that we can learn from? We are joined by special guests Timothy Salomon from the National Land Coalition in the Philippines, as well as Gisele Henriques from CRS. To find out more about re-alliance events, visit re-alliance.org/events. Welcome: (0:00) Introducing Timothy Salomon: (4:05) Making the unseen or less visible, visible: (5:22) Centring wellbeing in the process: (10:00) Welcoming Gisele Henriques: (21:06) An easy reflection tool: (25:12) Case studies and human stories: (27:08) Play Video Play Video 38:46 Designing Regenerative Change | Implementation Welcome to Re-Alliance’s Designing Regenerative Change series. Each of these bimonthly sessions focuses on a different stage of regenerative design processes. Grounded in regenerative paradigms and principles, and contextualised with inspiring real world examples from Re-Alliance members and the wider community, you will be guided on steps you can take to bring your regenerative vision to life. The topic of this session is Implementation. How might we deliver on our vision and our design? How do we still embed regenerative principles in the way we implement? We are joined by special guest Noah Ssempijja, the co-founder of YICE Uganda, who shares some experiences of delivering a project in Nakivale Refugee Settlement. Take part in the activity with this Jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1avwlKfZrD2LH4qG228Jdo2nJ0YSDU9y6vJyh69eWPG4/edit?usp=sharing To find out more about re-alliance events, visit re-alliance.org/events. Welcome: (0:00) Introducing Noah and YICE Uganda: (3:06) Adapting to changing and volatile circumstances: (7:36) Integrating regenerative principles in implementation: (21:23) Activity - reflection questions for you and your team: (35:01) Structuring your implementation plans: (36:49) Play Video Play Video 30:32 Designing Regenerative Change | Design for Action Welcome to Re-Alliance’s Designing Regenerative Change series. Each of these bimonthly sessions focuses on a different stage of regenerative design processes. Grounded in regenerative paradigms and principles, and contextualised with inspiring real world examples from Re-Alliance members and the wider community, you will be guided on steps you can take to bring your regenerative vision to life. The topic of this session is Design, the third session in the series. How might we best learn from the Visioning and Mapping stages, to put our ideas and plans 'down to paper'? What could it look like to make formalised plans for the upcoming work? We are joined by two special guests: Arnima Jain from Tarun Bharat Sangh (https://tarunbharatsangh.in/) and Faith Flanigan from Regenerosity (http://www.regenerosity.world). Join along with the design questions activity by making a copy of this Jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1NP2m8DqYoiZkHaOgrHja2Cvpoh5esvg5FyEBnemigLM/ To find out more about Re-Alliance events, visit re-alliance.org/events. Introduction: (0:00) Welcoming Arnima Jain: (02:06) A design thinking process: (04:53) Welcoming Faith Flanigan: (14:43) Designing through the lens of Permaculture ethics: (22:19) Designing across scales and cultural zones: (24:55) Play Video Play Video 01:02:00 Designing Regenerative Change | Mapping Welcome to Re-Alliance’s Designing Regenerative Change series. Each of these bimonthly sessions focuses on a different stage of regenerative design processes. Grounded in regenerative paradigms and principles, and contextualised with inspiring real world examples from Re-Alliance members and the wider community, you will be guided on steps you can take to bring your regenerative vision to life. The topic of this session is Mapping Resources, the second session in the series. How might we best work with our communities to help map out the resources we currently have available to us to help achieve our goals? What would it look like to map out the seen and the unseen elements of our Place, and the communities we're working with? We are joined by special guest Sarah Queblatin, founder of Green Releaf in the Philippines, and Living Stories Landscapes Project. Join along with the mapping activity by making a copy of this Jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1V5yksyrsAN_jLl8RYrjmuPZOowjNcd3Yha0L_jvFKO0/ To find out more about Re-alliance events, visit re-alliance.org/events. Introduction: (0:00) Welcoming Sarah Queblatin: (08:10) Why is process important?: (08:32) What do we need to map?: (11:39) Experiences of mapping: (23:10) Sarah's advice for mapping processes: (47:48) A mapping exercise: (53:16) Join our membership As part of our network, whether a grassroots practitioner or a member of an international NGO or Aid organisation, you will have access to dynamic knowledge, a vibrant and active community of experts, and a wealth of opportunities for collaboration. Our membership is open to all. The only requirements are an interest, understanding or expertise in regenerative design, experience in the humanitarian or development sectors, and a willingness to comply with our code of conduct and policies. Find out more Read Articles Planting Water, Growing Leaders: Youth-Driven Regeneration in Timor-Leste and Beyond The Role of Youth in Regeneration Across the world, young people are confronting the impacts of climate change, environmental... Re-Alliance Nature-Inspired Principles for Regenerative Humanitarian Responses Regenerative practice reminds us that even in the most urgent conditions, we can design interventions that nurture and collaborate with the living systems upon which all life depends. We need responses that build community autonomy, and relationship with land and other species. James Atherton Wind Mobiles: Building DIY Wind Turbines for Phone Charging in Refugee Camps In refugee and IDP settlements across the world, a mobile phone is a lifeline for the people who liver there. But keeping phones charged... Re-Alliance Sign up for our newsletters For inspiring stories from our network of practitioners around the globe, to learning about how to integrate regenerative design into humanitarian and development contexts, sign up to our newsletter below. Sign up We can support you Re-Alliance and our members have hosted several training programmes for humanitarian and development organisations and agencies. We can help you and your organisation to integrate regenerative paradigms and practices into your operation, interventions, and policy. Contact us to arrange a meeting and find out more. Contact us

Re-Alliance Publications WASH academic review community care composting food growing fungi sanitation settlement design urban environments water management Booklet Building a Garden on the Roof This picture-led booklet, made in collaboration with GUPAP and Sporos, explores how to grow Permaculture-inspired gardens on the roof, especially designed for communities with limited access to land. More info and download Booklet Community Composting This illustrated guide explores how to establish composting at community scale, to build soil health, cycle 'waste', and grow community cohesion. More info and download Guideline Community-Based Response to Collective Trauma This guide is for community responders to help them provide initial psychosocial support in times of disaster or emergency. More info and download Guideline Ecological Sanitation with Reuse in Camps and Settlements A guide to closing the sanitation loop in refugee and IDP camps and settlements: How to safely use the products of ecological sanitation for growing crops, ecosystem restoration and ecosystem services. More info and download Booklet Ecosans: Toilets in a Barrel This illustrated guide explores how to build and maintain a urine-diversion composting toilet called an Ecosan, which captures nutrient-rich urine for plant fertiliser, and human manure for use in farming. More info and download Booklet First Response to Trauma This picture-led booklet, made in collaboration with SACOD, explores how community responders can work with people who have experienced trauma in a safe way. More info and download Guideline Food Growing in Camps and Settlements: Collecting, Storing and using Rainfall and Grey water This practical guide covers approaches to growing food in camps and settlements with limited water. More info and download Booklet Gardening with Grey and Rain Water in Camps An illustrated guide of how to save and use grey water and rain water for food growing in refugee camps and settlements, made in partnership with SOILS Permaculture Association - Lebanon, and Malteser International. More info and download Booklet Growing Mushrooms in Reusable Containers How do you grow nutritious, edible mushrooms in reusable containers? This guide explores one method of using upcycled plastic containers to grow mushrooms for food. More info and download Paper Growing in Crisis: The costs, benefits and transformative potential of food growing in Cox's Bazar A study looking at the impact of new and previously established gardens in Cox's Bazar refugee camps on people's well-being and nutrition, as well as the costs and benefits of the different approaches used. More info and download Booklet Seasonal Food Growing in Refugee Settlements This picture-led booklet advises on seasonal food growing in refugee camps, made by Re-Alliance's partner SOILS Permaculture Association - Lebanon, in partnership with German Development Cooperation - GIZ, Mercy Corps, and the World Food Program. Translated from the original Arabic with permission from SOILS Permaculture Association - Lebanon. More info and download Paper Testing Regenerative Design guidelines for Refugee Camps and Settlements A literature analysis examining the extent to which existing guidelines on camp management offer a regenerative approach in settlement design, shelter design, food growing and water and WASH. Includes recommendations for the production of future regenerative guidelines. More info and download