Goumbook

Programmes

• Advisory

  Through its tailored advisory and consultancy services, Goumbook helps companies align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing a comprehensive approach called the "3As" approach: raising awareness, taking action, and offering advisory services. They assist companies in adopting and integrating the SDGs into their operations and objectives, enabling them to benefit from these sustainable practices. They help companies with needs assessment, evaluating current setups, and developing action plans aimed at achieving purpose, solutions, and profit in alignment with the SDGs.
• Awareness and Employee Engagment

  Goumbook offer tailored sustainability and CSR strategies to the specific needs of companies, organisations, and schools. These personalised activities include: environmental and social awareness talks; team-building activities; and in-house training. Topics covered range from the circular economy and water scarcity, to waste management, and plastic reduction, as well as broader issues such as the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change, and corporate ESG. Goumbook helps organisations raise awareness, engage employees, and build skills in environmental, organisational, and social sustainability, ensuring they stay informed in this dynamic field. They also arrange activities such as tree planting, beach clean-ups, climate change workshops, and more.
• Campaigns and Initiatives

  Goumbook is actively engaged in initiating and developing campaigns in the UAE aimed at raising awareness and supporting sustainability efforts. Their initiatives, include the Give a Ghaf Tree Planting Program, Drop It Rethink Plastic, and Save The Butts. The idea is to raise public awareness to inspire action and mobilise local resources. Goumbook collaborates with organisations and companies, offering tailored campaigns to help them achieve their sustainability goals and maximise their impact in this field.
• COP28 Climate Action

  Goumbook plays an active role in the climate action space by organising "Climate Fresk Workshops" for companies and individuals. These events aim to raise awareness and provide a platform for discussions about climate change, helping participants understand its complexities and encouraging them to take action.
• Regenerative Agriculture

  Goumbook's Regenerative Agriculture venture programme focuses on empowering and educating researchers and students who are working on critical agricultural challenges in the MENAT region. These challenges encompass issues like hunger and nutrition, climate change adaptation and mitigation, carbon sequestration, soil health, salinity, water scarcity, desertification, biodiversity loss, and food security. The programme emphasizes the need for agricultural practices to deliver positive economic, environmental, and social impacts for both farmers and local communities to ensure long-term sustainability. Participants in this programme gain access to a transformative journey that equips them to promote sustainable change within the agricultural industry.
• Youth Action

  Goumbook actively engages with the younger generation through its Youth Action initiatives. These efforts aim to educate and empower young individuals to become environmentally conscious and inspire sustainable practices in their schools and communities. Goumbook integrates youth volunteering programmes into its various initiatives, providing knowledge and tools for environmental awareness, social responsibility, sustainability, and climate action. They organise activities such as tree planting and awareness sessions in schools to promote these concepts in an engaging way.