Global Initiative for Environment and Reconciliation (GER) is a non-governmental organization based in Rwanda. GER was founded in 2015 with the mission of contributing to the peace and reconciliation process and improving environmental conditions in Rwanda, and the Great lLakes region as well. We support the existing reconciliation process, community recovery and prevention of violence.
We facilitate interactions with communities, local leaders, religious leaders, and young people to address the existing effects of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, and consider environment as a driving factor of peace building, healing the past and improving the livelihoods of our people.
Our focus is to empower the next generation into becomeing the agents of change in their respective communities for their bright future.
We document success stories for experience sharing with decision makers, stakeholders and academia to support post-conflict communities around the world. “I believe that changes are possible when communitycommunities isare empowered and engaged in the process.” withinAmong our beneficiaries, we have recorded positive changes so far; relations have improved, community initiatives have been established and community ownership has been promoted to ensure the sustainability.
We appreciate our partners for their contribution and we will keep updating about our progress. We invite interested individuals, foundations and organizations to support our activities. Please Do not hesitate to contact us via ger.globalr@gmail.com
Beyond Conflict Rwanda
We facilitate the inherent capacity within communities to reconcile. Our aim is to support communities to recover from collective trauma and the effects of the 1994 Genocide against the tutsi, and to contribute to the prevention of violent conflict in Rwanda and Great lakes.
Intergenerational Dialogue
We facilitate intergenerational dialogues to empower youth as agents of positive change. We focus on post-genocide generation to help them through healing and develop a sense of building the future without ethnicity, discrimination, racism and violence.
Women's Empowerment
We promote women's sense of self-worth and their ability to determine their own choices and their rights to participate in influencing social changes through fighting cross-cutting issues affecting society; GBV, climate change, health issues vulnerability and poverty. Agro-Climate change
We use agroecology as a contribution to farming system resilence against climate change impact to the conservation of biodiversity, improving food system, reviving indigenous knowledge and connecting people with nature. 
Community facilitators' group discussions After training, community facilitators meet in small groups and discuss existing challenges they face and plan for the next actions to support healing and reconciliation process in their respective communities. They also share the knowledge learnt from training and experience on how interactions have also helped them and their commitment to help others.
Emergency Response to Covid-19 food problems
Rwanda’s high population density and growing population means that land is used very intensively, which promotes commercial and monoculture tree plantations while natural forests are still under pressure.This intensive forestry model impacts women in particular because they are primarily responsible for two major livelihood activities requiring land and forests: farming and gathering firewood.
ABN members held community knowledge exchange in Rwanda
Extinguished partners, members of the ABN, during community dialogue in Rwanda. The knowledge exchange and experience learning was around reviving indigenous seeds, promoting indigenous knowledge, bridging knowledge gap and reconciling people with nature as a way of supporting social cohesion.
Strengthening Community-based Conservation through Dialogues
Through dialogues, community interaction and trainings, we promote the use of indigenous knowledge in environmental conservation and climate change mitigation. Training and workshops events bring together community practitioners, civil society organisations, local leaders and decision makers for a joint advocacy towards the sustainable community development.
Beyond conflict Rwanda ProgramSince June 2016 up to 2018 GER in partnership with CFOR, implemented interventions through the program called Beyond Conflicts-Rwanda and Great lakes. Our work together with CFOR was to facilitate forums and trainings gathering community groups and to facilitate a deeper conversation needed to support the reconciliation process, community recovery, and prevention of future violence.
Engaging youth participation as agents of CHANGE
Beyond Conflict Program outcome used in celebrating International Day of Peace 2019
NURC invited GER to attend the event with some of the beneficiaries of GER and CFOR Program (Beyond Conflict Rwanda) who reconciled. The reconciliation story of Patrick and Carine was chosen to be shared with all participants who were in the parliament and other Rwandans who were following the event via different media platform.
Stories from trainees supporting reconciliation at community level in Gasabo, Kicukiro and Bugesera Districts.
From June 16th 2018 to December 2018 GER and CFOR implemented activities to support reconciliations and heal trauma in Rwanda. These activities took place in three districts: Kicukiro, Gasabo and Bugesera. The activities included forums and training facilitators at the community level.
GER Address
EAR Kigali Building
Remera, Gasabo, Kigali
Rwanda
