What We Do
Challenges We Address
Communities in the Midlands Province face multiple environmental challenges that threaten ecosystems, livelihoods, and long-term sustainability. Midlands Conservation and Sustainability Initiative works to address these interconnected challenges through community-driven and evidence-based interventions.
The key challenges we address include:
Biodiversity Loss
Ecosystems Degradation
Water and Land Pollution
Environmental Injustice
Our Thematic Focus
Livelihoods
Our livelihoods support aims to facilitate income generation, acquisition of assets, and skills necessary for a sustained decent life in the face of shocks and stresses, through sustainable means. MCSI promotes environmentally responsible livelihoods that enhance resilience while safeguarding natural resources.
Climate Resilience
Our climate resilience support aims to ensure effective adaptation to climate change and to strengthen people’s ability to withstand the various forms it manifests through. We work with communities to reduce vulnerability and build adaptive capacity in the face of climate variability and extreme weather events.
Environmental Governance
Our environmental governance support seeks to introduce mechanisms and strengthen existing structures for increased participation of communities in protecting, defending, and ensuring sustainable use of the environment. We promote accountability, transparency, and inclusive decision-making.
Environmental Justice
Our environmental justice support aims to address the violations of people’s environmental rights resulting from economic activities. We work to amplify community voices, promote fairness, and seek redress where environmental harm affects livelihoods and well-being.
Our Approach
Dialogue
As an independent and apolitical organization, we facilitate sincere, genuine, and constructive dialogue that promotes mutual understanding and encourages deliberate and responsible actions. Dialogue is central to fostering peaceful coexistence, social justice, and sustainable environmental outcomes.
Research
We conduct ground-breaking, high-quality research in the areas of environment, conservation, and sustainability across our areas of operation. Our research informs policy engagement and supports meaningful, evidence-based advocacy.
Advocacy
We believe advocacy is one effective way of shaping policy, bringing issues to the attention of authorities, and seeking solutions to long-standing environmental problems. We commit to ethical and respectful advocacy for issues of common interest related to the environment and climate.
Capacity Building and Training
We build the capacities of communities not only to cope with and adapt to climate change, but also to avoid exacerbating environmental degradation through their actions. Our training initiatives promote environmental consciousness and good environmental stewardship.
Ecosystems Restoration
With a significant portion of ecosystems already degraded, we engage in ecosystems restoration activities using practical, scientifically proven methods to reverse environmental damage and its associated effects.
- Section 73 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe
- National Development Strategy (NDS 2)
- National Adaptation Plan
- Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
- Sustainable Development Goals 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, and 15
- United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Get Involved in Our Work
Protecting the environment and promoting sustainability requires collective action. Whether you are a community member, development partner, researcher, or advocate, your involvement can contribute to meaningful and lasting impact.
Join Midlands Conservation and Sustainability Initiative in advancing environmental protection, strengthening climate resilience, and promoting environmental justice across the Midlands Province and beyond.