Welcome to the SouthSouthNorth Project Website:
 

SouthSouthNorth (SSN) is a network-based non-profit organisation sharing two decades of experience in the fields of climate change and social development. We directly pursue structural poverty reduction in Sub Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America by building Southern capacity and delivering community based mitigation and adaptation projects. The former mitigate climate change by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and the latter assist communities to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change.

SouthSouthNorth leads through projects to build capacity, to ensure the adequate and appropriate receipt and transfer of technologies and to contribute positively to the international policy environment.

SouthSouthNorth contributed to the development of the International Gold Standard label which ensures the highest standards of practice throughout CDM project development and implementation. Our projects include the Kuyasa low-cost urban housing energy upgrade project, the first CDM project in Africa and the world’s first Gold Standard project. (visit our Partners page)

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Our Mission:

 


SouthSouthNorth seeks to place poverty reduction efforts at the centre of all climate change issues. We pursue direct structural poverty reduction and the sustainable development of poor communities of the South who suffer the most from the impacts of climate change. At the same time, we pioneer solutions to global climate change.

SouthSouthNorth recognises the vital need for finding viable economic solutions that are sustainable to meet this challenge and builds capacity among all stakeholders in the South. We forge linkages between countries of the south and between these countries and countries of the north to enable an exchange of information and technology.

SouthSouthNorth is committed to project-led development and learning and freely shares all outputs and learnings in the interests of the global community. Find the following and other publications via our Library page:
  • Matrix of Indicators for Appraising the Sustainable Development Contribution of Projects.
  • Climate Change: Stories from the Developing World.
  • CDM Practitioners’ Practical Toolkit
  • SSN 1 Report: Lessons Learnt




Our Values:
 

SouthSouthNorth IS COMMITED TO:
  • global equity
  • leadership, partnership and trust building
  • social, economic and environmental benefit
  • transparency and 'best practice'
  • pioneering, experimenting, open networking and capacity building



Central Office: 

OUR CENTRAL OFFICE co-ordinates the activities of all SSN programmes and participating member organisations that form part of the SSN group. SouthSouthNorth programmes are:
  • MITIGATION Programme: will develop at least five community based projects in developing countries with at least three in Southern Africa will to reduce poverty whilst achieving global greenhouse gas emission reductions following a best practice no regrets approach to climate change mitigation.
  • ADAPTATION Programme: will develop at least seven community based projects that assist the poor in developing countries to adapt to climate change, building their adaptive capacity and resilience to create sustainable livelihoods and strategies for coping with climate change.
  • TECHNOLOGY RECEPTIVITY and TRANSFER Programme: This programme intersects with all other SSN programmes to ensure that technologies appropriate to the poor in developing countries will be adequately transferred and lessons learnt in all projects developed.
  • CAPACITY BUILDING Programme: This programme also intersects with all other programmes to help build the capacity internally within SSN and amongst various target groups in partnership with stakeholders to mitigate, adapt and transfer technologies that reduce poverty and all the lessons learnt will be captured and disseminated for international sharing.
  • POLICY INTERVENTION Programme: This programme also intersect with all other programmes to encourage the development of most beneficial policies based on the experiences of SouthSouthNorth projects.

CONTACT US:
   

   Our Projects   
   For details on our projects and our reports, go to the link to our Programmes Page.

For News and furtner information on our project activities, see our Partners Page. 		  
  
   We operate in the following centers:   

   International Monitoring by HELIO:   
   HELIO International is an independent monitor of all SSN activities and practice.
For details of the operations of HELIO go to their website