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Re-Alliance's Services Contact us to book services Visit us on social media Re-Alliance provides CONSULTING A consultancy brokering service, linking organisations with individual expertise in the field of regenerative design and development KNOWLEDGE A knowledge bank of case studies, academic articles and research reports evidencing the impact of this work TOOLKITS Links to practical tool kits, training courses and how-to guides, both our own and those produced by our members WORKSHOPS Speakers, facilitators or workshop hosts for specific events, or training sessions about Permaculture and regeneration designed specifically for your organisation Underlying principles Our underlying principles inform our organisational policies and our practice to achieve the change we want to see in the world. While traditionally development and humanitarian response has moved from the global North to the global South, we particularly value the knowledge and resources located in the South and the learning they have to offer to different parts of the world. Already we can see a time when trajectories may be reversed as all areas of the world face the challenges associated with fragility and climate change. From Principles to Policies & Practices PRINCIPLES • To bridge the humanitarian and development divide ​ • Provide alternative discourses around progress • Evidence the impact and effectiveness of regenerative approaches ​ • Emphasise the significance of healthy ecosystems in human wellbeing ​ POLICY • Evidence the impact and effectiveness of regenerative approaches ​ • Influence institutions, and provide a platform for skills, knowledge and evidence sharing ​ • Advocate for a shift of investment flows from harmful to restorative practices ​ ​ PRACTICE • Provide a platform for skills, knowledge and evidence sharing ​ • Encourage participation & inclusive processes ​ • Collectively remember and value local and traditional ways of knowing ​ • Brokering relationships ​ ​ Linking research & practice We link research with practice and aim to provide support and learning in areas where it can have maximum impact. Offering our coalition's services We offer a brokering service to match specialists with projects and activities that can best benefit from their input. Please contact us if you or your organisation are in need of specialist input or advice. We can vouch for the quality and integrity of our members’ work. Areas of expertise Regenerative design in situations of disaster and displacement, to maximise community resilience and regenerative use of the environment Building with natural materials and in response to environmental conditions (straw bale, resilient and affordable housing, earthquake and flood resistant buildings, etc) Food growing and nutrition, space design for optimal yields, regenerative orchards, forest gardens, gardening in refugee camps. Irrigation and watershed management, water recycling, approaches at WASH and the use of greywater in food growing Resilient livelihoods, stabilisation agriculture and agroecology in fragile and conflict affected environments, food growing and marketing after displacement Climate change adaptation, research and practice, restoring and regenerating local ecosystems Monitoring and evaluation, business development and organisational support to small and large scale organisations involving the bringing together of multiple, interdisciplinary teams Resource development, training, facilitation and the management of learning for farmer groups, small communities, conflicted communities, government bodies and international organisations. Contact us to find out more about our services, or to make a booking. Get in touch

Re-Alliance Members Our diverse membership, spanning every continent around the globe, has organically formed with representatives from over 150 organisations, united by a shared commitment to integrated regenerative responses to development, disaster and displacement. Our membership includes experts from regenerative design fields working within INGOs, Universities, Businesses, small and medium NGOs and self-employed practitioners. ​ Are you a Permaculture or regenerative practitioner, or from a regenerative project, working in humanitarian or development spaces? We'd love to connect with you. Membership to Re-Alliance is free of charge, and you can find out more about becoming a Re-Alliance member here . ​ This list is not a full representation of our membership, so if you would like to find a regenerative practitioner or consultant for a specific project located in a region you can't find, please get in touch . ​ Country Uganda Youth Initiative for Community Empowerment | YICE Working with youth, women and displaced farmers in rural Uganda to restore biodiversity, improve productivity and secure livelihoods. Read More Find out more Brazil Meli Bees Network Inspired by the Meliponini bees, Meli Bees Network aims to create environmentally and economically sustainable activities that allow both land and people to flourish. Read More Find out more UK Applewood Permaculture Centre Founded by Chris Evans and Looby Mcnamara, Applewood is a smallholding and training centre based in the UK. Inspired by the work of the Himalayan Permaculture Centre, it serves as both a place of learning and of demonstration for a global community of trainees. Read More Find out more Uganda Rwamwanja Rural Foundation Rwamwanja Rural Foundation works with refugee and IDP populations in Uganda - combining the principles of permaculture and social entrepreneurship - equipping them with the tools to provide nutritious food for their communities, secure their livelihoods and regenerate degraded ecosystems. Read More Find out more Greece Sporos Regeneration Institute Regenerating the environment, culture and human relations. Read More Find out more Location Organisation Short bio Read More Find out more

Re-Alliance Film Competition - 2020 Contact us Tweet us With a €200 grant for participants and up to €2500 in prizes. The deadline for applications has passed. Re-Alliance is running a member’s film competition in Summer 2020 (Spring Northern Hemisphere, Autumn Southern Hemisphere). We hope this will result in a series of up to ten short films, showing good practice examples of regenerative approaches used by members and their organisations in different parts of the world. The films will be shared internationally via re-alliance.org and through social media, and can be used by the groups that make the films to promote their work. Before the Coronavirus outbreak the plan had been to show the films at Oxford University’s Nature Based Solutions conference, to be run in Oxford, UK in July 2020, and at a travelling film festival on ‘Responding to climate change’ due to be hosted by lewesdepot.org in 2021. However, both events have been postponed until next year so we are now looking at ways to maximise the exposure of the films in the interim before we show them at live public events. The best film, or films, as selected by a panel of film makers, will share a prize of €2,500 to help fund their work in the field. Films should be: ● Around 3 minutes in length ● Made on a mobile phone ● Of high quality ● In any language but with English subtitles ● Provide some background to the context in which the approach has been used and outline its regenerative significance and how others could learn from this approach ● Help showcase the integrated, regenerative nature of your work and the impact it’s had We are offering ten small grants of up to €200 for members to make their films. This is to cover things like travel costs, purchase of lapel microphones to help ensure good quality sound and a contribution towards equipment and subtitling in English. It is not intended to cover professional film making services. We suggest editing is done using free software (blender, shotcut, iMovie, lightworks etc) and we will provide a short brief with advice on filming and editing to all successful applicants. Applications for small grants of up to €200 should be submitted by 7th July 2020. A decision on these will be made by 8th July 2020. Films will need to be completed by 1st September 2020 . Awards will be given to those films that best portray the message or showcase regenerative design to a broad audience, as decided by a small panel of film and regenerative design professionals. ​ Please email the short application form below to contact@re-alliance.org to apply for a €200 development grant with ‘Film Competition 2020’ as the email heading. ​ You do not have to be a member to apply, but we ask that you align with Re-Alliance's regenerative vision and mission . ​ ​ Contact us View Application Form Submit Application form

Current and Recent Projects Donate Contact us Visit us on social media Regenerative Camps and Settlements Members' Film Competition Radio and Communications Gardens in Refugee Camps Re-Alliance works with partner organisations to implement regenerative projects throughout the world. Our role is usually in research, project design and management, producing educational materials, evaluating and monitoring and disseminating information. See below for more information on our recent and current projects. Regenerative Camps and Settlements May 20 22- M ay 2025 Great oaks from little acorns grow: from pilots to system-change. Over the next three years, Re-Alliance will be working on our ‘Regenerative Camps and Settlements' project. The project will pilot regenerative interventions within formal and informal camps for refugees and IDPs. The learnings from the projects will inform our wider research into regenerative responses to disaster and displacement and create content for further learning materials and knowledge sharing aimed at promoting grass-roots, community led interventions and influencing mainstream INGO activities. 1 st Funding round May 2022 ​ 41 applications received ​ 8 projects selected ​ In May 2022, we held our first round of funding and selected eight projects from the 41 applications received. A second round of funding is planned for 2023. The local partners selected have begun implementing change-making regenerative programmes to trial innovations which benefit local communities and the natural environment. The projects aim to enhance multiple systems, increasing the health of social, ecological and economic systems together. These projects aim to work in an integrated way to break down the traditional silos between sectors. We will have a second round of funding in 2023 when we intend to fund projects focusing on energy and communication. The Ma y 2022 projects include: ​ 3 Integrated Sanitation Projects (Nakivale Uganda, Zahle Lebanon and Kakuma Kenya) Although the concept of dry and compost toilets is now more understood and has been adopted in some camp settings, widespread uptake is limited because, in part, the benefits of resource creation are not appreciated and therefore systems are not maintained and valued. ​ We have partnered with local groups with a focus and understanding of soil health, nutrient cycles and food growing. By integrating various designs of composting toilets with amending soils for plant growth we aim to create projects which thrive at the intersection between WASH and Livelihoods creating multiple benefits to both areas. ​ 3 Urban Agriculture Projects (Bamenda Cameroon, Gaza Palestine and Athens Greece) ​ Urban agriculture increases access to healthy, affordable, fresh food and gives communities a chance to learn about nutrition and growing food. More than this, it gives people who have been uprooted from their homes purposeful, therapeutic activity. By growing and cooking favourite foods, a taste of home can be created in a new place while tiny green spaces enrich the environment and biodiversity of cities. Reducing the amount of food families have to buy increases resilience and reduces the amount of food that needs to be imported into cities at high carbon costs. The projects supported also integrate the use of up-cycled and recycled materials and seed saving to reduce inputs and create regenerative cycles. ​ 1 Lime Stabilised Soil construction Project (Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh) If concrete was a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of CO2 in the world. Lime Stabilised soil is a viable alternative to concrete with similar cost, strength and adaptability benefits but with a fraction of the carbon footprint. Following disasters, huge rebuilding programmes often utilise concrete for rapid rebuilding, but lime stabilised soil has been shown to have greater benefits as it allows for the use of on-site materials (soil) and reduces the need for imported materials. It therefore minimises costs, carbon and resource demands and reduces construction traffic by avoiding transport of excavated and imported materials. Lime stabilisation is established practice with a proven history of successful use internationally but cement is still the first choice by many engineers in part because of the knowledge gap of use. ​ Lime Stabilised soil could be particularly useful in projects in Cox’s Bazar, because the use of concrete is often prohibited by the authorities for political reasons. Lime could be a viable alternative to concrete without compromising on strength and safety and help the Rohingya communities build durable paths and settlements, 1 Camp Composting Project (Nakivale, Uganda) ​ Closing the nutrient cycle by converting food waste into compost is a fundamental tool in turning human activity from an extractive to regenerative process. This project works at the intersection between waste management, livelihoods and health. Composting schemes such as this reduce waste management costs, enrich soils to enable healthy food to be grown and increase the health and biodiversity of the soil. Healthy soils sequester more carbon, absorb more water during heavy rainfall and facilitate organic food growing due to increased nutrient content. Members' Film Competition March - December 2020 With just €5000 we seed-funded the production of 12 short films showcasing inspirational examples of regeneration from 8 different countries. These powerful stories of community-based approaches spread messages of hope around the world. ​ Winners were awarded up to €3000 to grow their work further. We facilitated mutual collaboration to build evidence, unlock funds and tell their Story. Pioneering work became visible and legitimate, enabling the growth of its influence and impact. ​ The competition ensured all our members with meaningful stories could take part by asking for films to be recorded on mobile phones and to last just 6 minutes. Films could be recorded in any language with English subtitles. Ten small grants of up to €500 were offered to help make the films, which went towards travel costs, purchase of lapel microphones, editing and subtitling in English. All films were uploaded onto our website and widely shared, tripling visits to our site in a short time as well as giving voice to small marginalised groups. The winning film-maker received €3000 to fund future regenerative Work. ​ Produced at the height of worldwide lockdowns, the films told stories of resilience and adaptability and facilitated connections and the growth of inspirational ideas at a time when people could not meet but stories could still be shared. You can watch the winning film here and view others on our video and webinars page . Radio & non-digital communications promoting food growing in IDP & Refugee Camps January 2021 - April 2022 This project pilots the use of radio and non-digital forms of communication to promote permaculture and food growing within refugee and IDP camps in the Philippines and Kenya. Nutritious food, grown locally at minimal cost builds health and resilience and gardens offer additional well being benefits of green space and meaningful occupation. Re-Alliance has previously worked with partners in developing camp gardens and training residents to grow food in small spaces and we were keen to explore how ideas and practices could be amplified and spread beyond the people who came to training events. ​ In Kenya, we’ve worked with our partners at Kajulu Hills Ecovillages, to design and trial a radio programme with inbuilt good growing messages. They have now broadcast eight episodes of a radio soap using local actors. The soap tells stories about the benefits of growing food with a permaculture approach and advertises a demonstration site in the camp that listeners can visit. Listeners are also invited to join an established indigenous seed sharing programme. ​ ​ With our partner Green ReLeaf in the Philippines we have been working towards the creation of a game with emergency food growing information which can be shared with people in remote, disaster-prone locations. Gardens in refugee camps: Regenerative design & water harvesting at home, school & community gardens January 2020 - December 2021 This capacity strengthening project included the development of vegetable gardens in IDP camps in Northern Syria with partners Syrian Academic Expertise in Northern Turkey. ​ Working in three IDP camps in A’zaz and Jarablus in Northwest Syria, this pilot project tested the viability of creating vegetable gardens to grow food partially irrigated by harvested rain water and grey water. The project started with training events including five successful webinars for our INGO sponsors and the production of a grey water booklet by SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon to supplement their food growing guide for training the camp residents to successfully build gardens and grow food. ​ Growing plots varied in size from home gardens to community gardens in A’zaz and a school garden in Jarablus. The aims included introducing regenerative strategies to improve food security, mental health and community cohesion. Working with a large INGO, Re-Alliance acted in an advisory capacity, with our subcontracted partners, Syrian Academic Expertise, providing research, training and mentoring support. The gardens were successfully established with food grown, harvested and eaten. The gardens were highly popular with camp residents, with many more requests for participation than the pilot could facilitate. Bi weekly mentoring visits were undertaken by our partners while Re-Alliance conducted monitoring and evaluation and the production of learning materials including an NGO guide to using harvested rain and grey water. See Services