Climate Change Resilience

Volunteers are also addressing climate change before a disaster or shock occurs. For example, in 2018, France Volontaires and its partners from 5 countries (France, Italy, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia) launched the TERO project (Territoires Engagés pour la Résilience des Oasis or Territories Engaged for the Resilience of Oases), funded under the EU Aid Volunteers Initiative (EUAV). The TERO project is designed to raise awareness of the threat of climate change among oasian communities and how to address it.

The effort is developing the organisations’ capacities regarding volunteers’ mobilisation, creating partnerships between youth organisations and environmental protection organisations and implementing concrete actions to increase oasis resilience to climate change.