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Women Environmental Programme

Acronym: WEP

General Information

Identification Code: 700162392175-74
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Entity Form: Non-Governmental Organization
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 5/30/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: Women Environmental Programme (WEP) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political, non-religion organisation. The pollution by industries in Southern Kaduna, in Kaduna State, Nigeria, and its consequent effect on the environment and humans, especially women and children came as a serious concern to Priscilla Achakpa, the founder of WEP, who stood up against these lethal activities by the industries. She was poised to fight this to a standstill as she canvased for support of individuals and groups. She was able to mobilize other women to join her in this cause. This led to the formation of an environment advocacy and women’s rights organization in 1997 known as Save Environment Action which is today known as Women Environmental Programme (WEP). \WEP has a vision of a world where the lives of women and youth are positively transformed.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Climate action
  • Energy
  • Environment
Levels of Interest:
  • national
  • european
  • sub-national
  • global

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: Women Environmental Programme targets the following EU legislative legislative proposals or policies: - The Global Gateway - The EU Gender Action Plan III - Towards a gender equal world - The EU Green Deal - EU Strategic Agenda 2024 - 2029 These and other related legislative proposals and policies are the target of our organization.
Communication Activities: WEP has carried out activities that are related to the EU policies mentioned above. Highlight of some of these activities are: 1. To contribute to the achievement of a gender equal world by ensuring actions are taken to address climate change impacts on women and other vulnerable groups, WEP supported the Federal Ministry of Environment in Nigeria to domesticate the UNFCCC’s Gendal Action Plan as the National Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change for Nigeria - https://climatechange.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/climate-change-and-gender-action-plan.pdf. WEP also engaged the Zamfara State House of Assembly in Nigeria to put in a place an affirmative action law to promote the participation of women in politics. WEp has been providing trainings for women and other stakeholders to raise awareness on women's rights in the countries she has office such as Togo, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Siera Leone, Niger and Canada. Here are some of our publications on the work that we do - https://wepnigeria.net/training-manuals/, https://wepnigeria.net/national-action-plan-on-gender-climate-change/, https://wepnigeria.net/environhealthpolicybrief/
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Green new deal,Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development

Head Office

Address: NO 5B, CONSTITUTION AVENUEGADUWA HOUSING ESTATE
Post Code: 900001
City: ABUJA
Country: NIGERIA
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EU Office

Address: NO 5B, CONSTITUTION AVENUEGADUWA HOUSING ESTATE
Post Code: 900001
City: ABUJA
Country: NIGERIA
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 1
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 1
Members: 6
Members F T E: 3.5999999046325684
Info Members: WEP has offices in 7 different countries: Nigeria, Siera Leone, Burkina Faso, Togo, Tunisia, Niger and Canada. In Nigeria, WEP has 25 full time staff and 10 volunteers. In other countries, WEP has at least 5 full time staff and at least 2 volunteers. These staff and volunteers in addition to our partner organizations get involved in our activities and contribute to the realization of the goal of the organization.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) – https://www.awdf.org Global Environment Facility – https://www.thegef.org UN Women – https://www.unwomen.org Global Community Engagement and Resilient Fund (GCERF) – https://www.gcerf.org Delegation of the European Commission in Nigeria – https://www.eeas.europa.eu The Kingdom of Netherlands - https://www.government.nl/ Women Engage for a Common Future: https://www.wecf.org Global Forest Coalition – https://www.globalforestcoalition.org Asia Pacific Forum for Women, Law and Development – https://www.apwld.org Both ENDS – https://www.bothends.org Health of Mother Earth Foundation – https://www.homef.org Women for Water Partnership - https://www.unwater.org/about-un-water/members-and-partners/women-water-partnership-wfwp
Organisation Members: Women and Gender Constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - https://womengenderclimate.org/ Women for Water Partnership - https://www.unwater.org/about-un-water/members-and-partners/women-water-partnership-wfwp Women's Major Group - https://womensmajorgroup.org/ Global Environment Facility (GEF) CSOs network - https://gefcsonetwork.org/ UNEP Major Groups and Stakeholders - https://www.unep.org/civil-society-engagement/why-civil-society-matters/major-groups-stakeholders Sustainable Futures Network - https://sustainablefuturesglobal.org/