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  1. Habiba Community

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    Habiba Community is a bottom-up initiative based on the shores of Sinai, Egypt. It joined the Ecosystem Restoration Camps (ERC) movement in 2019 and is now one of many organisations in this movement encouraging regenerative sustainable development models in South Sinai.

    Ultimately Habiba seeks to make the Sinai desert green again. Habiba’s efforts to restore the South Sinai region are matched with international efforts underway to restore the entire Peninsula, which thousands of years ago used to be a forest-covered region rich in life and biodiversity. This development model has changed the mindset, by building inclusion, creating a network of 75 farms, 48 of which are Bedouin owned, that have fair access to the local market, and providing equal opportunities for all to guarantee well-being.

    Habiba combines education and work in permaculture and restoration of the natural system with the goal of cooperating with the local Bedouin community. Embracing the ERC goal of providing educational programs in environmental restoration and regenerative practices for personal health and well-being.

    Habiba helped local communities to:

    • Introduce regenerative agricultural techniques
    • Stop erosion
    • Avoid further desertification
    • Rebuild local livelihoods, based on healthy ecosystems

    Habiba’s key asset is a regenerative and organic farm in the desert. This adapts cutting-edge methods in sustainable agri-tech and experimentation. This farm is changing the way food is produced, and is an international knowledge hub where community collaboration takes place.

    Habiba is now working towards building a climate change resilient community in the coastal town of Nuweiba.

  2. NILE Journeys

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    NILE Journeys was established in 2016 as a platform for Nile communities. Its work unfolds through community hubs across Nile Basin countries. There are currently eight hubs, and they are expanding.

    Communities across the Nile Basin suffer inequalities and limitations in their natural, human, or technological well-being, which renders them vulnerable to climate change and its effects. The word NILE refers not only to the Nile’s energetic field of the majestic river but also serves as an acronym for what the platform aims to do “Nurturing Impulses for Living Ecosystems”.

    The NILE Journeys vision is to nurture life-affirming actions in the Nile bio-region through participatory and experiential learning spaces rooted in indigenous knowledge and regenerative practices.

    NILE Journeys has so far:

    • Engaged more than 97,000 people
    • Provided direct support to eight Community Hubs
    • Established three dialogue spaces
    • Established three agroecology demonstration sites
    • Set up a library
    • Co-established a restaurant in a rural co-working space
    • Co-established a moringa oil press unit
    • Sponsored the education of 83 children
    • Sustainably regenerated 168 hectares
    • Trained 35 community leaders on dialogue facilitation

    The NILE journeys’ goal for 2026 is to become a model of trans-local collaboration in the Nile basin with regenerative practices that can be replicated in other fields and other parts of the basin.

  3. Habiba Community

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    Habiba was initiated as a beach lodge in Sinai, Egypt in 1994. In response to political events and a serious financial crisis in South Sinai, the Habiba Organic Farm was started to provide the founder’s family and community with healthy food. Since then the farm has been collaborating with Bedouin people to convert their desert lands to green ‘havens’.

    Habiba joined WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms/World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) and enjoys facilitating the international collaboration that this brings. Habiba also established a community learning centre which focuses on building the capacity of women and youth to farm sustainably and become involved in local fair trade production.

  4. Benaa organization

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    Benaa aims to empower Arabian youth to build sustainable development projects, and create an interactive enabling environment in the MENA region.

    These projects cover:

    1. Ecological Sustainability: controlling water and air pollution, and solid waste management
    2. Food and Agriculture: organic farming, food waste reduction, and local food production
    3. Education: raising awareness of sustainable development
    4. Urbanism and Architecture: including reconstructing inadequate rural and urban settlements
    5. Information and Communications Technology
    6. Social Development: to improve the life standards of rural and poor communities

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