Services

Promoting Environment Interventions to Reduce Poverty

Rural Natures and Environmental Resources Company Ltd assists the government and other environmental organs to protect the health and productivity of the poor by improving environmental quality and to enhance their livelihoods by improving natural resource management and maintaining the long-term productivity of ecosystems,  and reducing their vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters. In developing and implementing poverty partnership agreements with Government, Government agencies such as NEMC, NGOs and the like and assist companies to comply with environmental and natural resource management regulations, the company, through a participatory approach,  seeks to identify opportunities for environmental improvements and sustainable natural resource management.

Mainstreaming Environmental Considerations in Economic Growth

The company assists the environmental organs to strengthen their policy, legislative, and institutional frameworks through:

1. Integration of environmental objectives into national and sector economic development
2. Introducing policies and regulatory systems for environmental management, including   the use of economic instruments
3. Enhancing  the  participatory  role  of  local  governments  and  communities  in  supporting environmentally sustainable development actions
4. Promoting good governance to ensure compliance and enforcement
5. Mobilizing domestic and other resources for environmental improvement, including from private sector interests. and
6. Enhancing education, public awareness, and capacity building.

Maintaining Rural, Urban and Global Life Support Systems

The Company makes sure that it covers the entire country and extends expertise    to any country to maintain global environmental life support systems and address regional and national transboundary environmental issues through:

1. Promotion of intergovernmental cooperation
2. Participation in specialized mechanisms arising out of Environmental Agreements
3. Facilitation of the transfer of technology and expatriate resources under Environmental agreements
4. Capacity building for the country’s policymakers and technical experts to articulate and defend the country’s interests in international negotiations
5. Support for regional cooperation and sub-regional environment Programs and institutions.

Building Partnerships

The Company builds partnerships with other agencies and institutions to

1. Broaden, replicate, and sustain the impact of its efforts
2. Complement and draw upon the comparative advantage of partners
3. Mobilize additional knowledge and financial resources.
4. Integrating Environmental Considerations in Government Operations

Rural Natures and Environmental Resources   Company Ltd implements and addresses the environmental aspects of its operations through the systematic application of procedures for:

1. Environmental analysis for country strategy and programming
2. Environmental assessment of projects
3. Assist environmental entities in monitoring   and evaluating of compliance with environmental requirements of loans
4. Implementation of procedures for environmentally responsible procurement. In the context of policy-based lending and policy dialogue,  RUNER  will identify opportunities to introduce policy reforms that provide incentives to improve environmental quality and enhance the sustainability of natural resource management.

Undertaking Projects and Consultancy Services

The Company implements projects and programs to enhance environmental management and protect natural resources to increase livelihoods and protect the health of the poor. We focus on environmental improvement and sustainable natural resource management programs and projects that make the greatest contribution to natural resource conservation and environmental management and improve peoples’ health and contribute towards poverty reduction, and we support the poverty partnership agreements. We engage in interventions that generate environmental and natural resources management benefits not only at rural and regional levels but also at the global level.

We  adopt  a catalytic  approach  focusing on potentially  replicable  interventions,  with emphasis  on mobilization  of  additional  resources,  within  the  overall  context  of  the  country  strategy  process, poverty-oriented environmental programming in which we mainly concentrate and direct much of our efforts into following areas of concern:

1. Protection, conservation, and sustainable use of natural resources including the formalization of such resources so as to maintain the livelihoods of the poor.
2. Reduction of air, water, and soil pollution that directly impacts the health and productivity of poor people; and
3. Reduction of vulnerability to natural hazards and preventing disasters.
4. Developing General Management Plan for identified or for those protected areas.
5. Planning on land, Protection, Conservation, and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and formalization of such resources.

Promoting Education and Public Awareness

Rural  Natures and  Environmental  Resources  Company  Ltd is committed to promoting education, public awareness, and capacity building for environmental management. We believe that both formal and non-formal education is essential to changing people’s attitudes and providing them with the capacity to assess and address their environmental concerns is imperative of great necessity. It is also critical for achieving environmental awareness, values and attitudes, skills, and behaviour for effective public participation. We engage environmentally literate communities and volunteer organizations in promoting environmental and natural resources management and protection compliance among the communities so as to improve their health.

Formation of Properties and Property Rights

It is an absolute fact that in order for the mortgage market to grow substantially and function efficiently, there must be strong laws and institutions for establishing properties that are eligible to serve collateral mortgaged loans and for clarifying what rights and interests in the properties are held by various communities. In this regard, we facilitate the process to make sure that there are clear, transparent, and reliable systems to register legal interests in properties including mortgaged ones.

At present in rural areas even in urban, property rights are not adequately settled and are not properly recorded in a registration system. We endeavour to improve the quality and registration of property rights; this increases property values and investment in housing, and also stimulates the mortgage market, which the country is striving to achieve.

Increasing Economic Participation in Formal Economy

The idea behind this is that many poor people especially in rural areas possess wealth in the form of land, small businesses and other property, but this wealth is not legally recognized, or ‘formalized’. If people do not have secure title to their land or work in unregistered and unregulated businesses, they may have little access to capital or be unable to expand their economic activities beyond their own local area. In this area, we facilitate economic participation of the poor people in rural areas for them to operate within the formal legal system so that they can make use of their assets to increase their participation in not only local markets, but also national and global ones.

In the modern economy, businesses often benefit from having a standardized legal identity in order to distinguish them from their owners,  and also the economy businesses look for customers and associates at the national or even international levels. In this aspect, we facilitate and assist relevant organs to have reliable and standardized legal documents and identification tools that allow businesses to form networks of secure, long-distance contacts and transactions.

Imparting Business Knowledge through Training

For people working in the informal sector, we provide the skills required to expand their businesses in the formal sector. At present many people in the informal sector particularly in villages and rural areas have low levels of business education, little market information and poor production technologies. In addition,  informal sector business associations are weak in management and planning.  Improved property rights and business registration and licensing will not alone be enough to enable them to succeed; the Company provides training on the preparation of simple business cases, projected cash flows, and enhances information sharing and strengthening of their associations.

Enhancing Financial Institutions’ Capacity to Lend to Small and Micro Businesses

At the moment,  small businesses and poor people face a range of difficulties getting loans from financial institutions. One of the reasons is that the banks do not operate within rules and regulations, which reduce the risks they can take with the savings of their customers. We facilitate and review these rules with relevant institutions in order to make it possible for financial institutions to help people take advantage of their formalized assets. We know that this is one area that needs some work to facilitate the provision of credit to small borrowers.

Village and Local government Record Keeping

In many local and village governments keep records in disorder and an uncoordinated way. Often, poor filing and bureaucratic delays can cause problems for people trying to register and access records. Standardization and computerization of filing systems help to enforce standards and make information easily accessible. In this area, we facilitate the establishment of records management systems to enhance information storage, accessibility and retrieval.