EcoJustice Africa
Project Host
Green Growth Africa
Revenue
GBP 45,752.90
Charity Number
CAC/IT/99790
Project aims
EcoJustice Africa seeks to combat environmental crime by empowering citizens as a new generation of environmental activists for accelerated advocacy towards realising an environmentally-just Africa where citizens are empowered to exercise their environmental rights, and their rights are respected.
Project description
Environmental crimes threaten the exercise of human right, and the realisation of SDGs. The concentration of environmental crimes in remote communities make them obscure, thus, making community environmental policing an effective approach to combat them.
In line with United Nations’ declaration of “access to clean, healthy and sustainable environment” as a human right, EcoJustice Africa seeks to facilitate effective citizen action for community environmental policing and effective stakeholder engagement to combat environmental crime in Africa. An EcoJustice Fellowship programme will be initiated to train environmental activists in African countries as “EcoFellows” who will train citizens at the local level on environmental crimes, rights and justice. Citizens will also be empowered with an eyewitness reporting mobile application(Green Growth Watch- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greengrowth.watch&hl=en) to capture and report environmental crimes. Verified citizen reports will be used for evidence-based advocacy and public dialogues between citizens, governments and other relevant stakeholders to demand for accountability and justice. The media advocacies and dialogues will be hosted by Green Growth Situation Room(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkIXUScFT4Q) and transmitted via open and participatory platforms -YouTube and social media. Verified citizen reports will also be used to characterise environmental crimes and justice in Africa as a real-time digital map to support policy and legislative actions.
Contact name
Adedoyin Adeleke
Phone
+2349163222223
Email
adedoyin@thegreengrowth.org
Website
www.thegreengrowth.org (Impact: https://thegreengrowth.org/corporate-brochure/)
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