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PARTNERS

Partners of the Heinrich Böll Foundation

The Foundation endeavours to strengthen the individual partner organisations by supporting their own project activities through financial, training and information support. The partner organisations in the region include:

PARTNERS IN THE ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME

 

Panos, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Panos Ethiopia is a country office of Panos Eastern Africa, which works towards stimulating informed debate, and discussion on development issues both at country and regional levels.
-- [ C O N T A C T Panos ]
Website
:www.panoseasternafrica.org.ug


 

Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Environmental Protection Authority was established in 1986 as a regional and state ministry responsible for implementing the national environmental policy.
-- C O N T A C T Environmental Protection Authority ]


 

NAGAAD, Somaliland

NAGAAD is an umbrella organization of women's groups in Somaliland. NAGAAD's member organizations, which currently number approximately 32, have their own programs and activities. Their common goals include advocacy for women's rights and empowerment of women.
-- C O N T A C T NAGAAD, NAGAAD ]

Website: www.nagaad.org


  AFREPREN/FWD, Kenya
AFREPREN/FWD is a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Nairobi, Kenya, with vast expertise on energy in East and Southern Africa, and in West and North Africa. It brings together expertise, experience and skills of two past regional energy initiatives/programmes namely; The African Energy Policy Research Network (AFREPREN/FWD) and Foundation for Woodstove Dissemination (FWD).
-- [ C O N T A C T AFREPREN, AFREPREN]
Website
: www.afrepren.org
 

Green Belt Movement (GBM), Nairobi, Kenya

The Green Belt Movement is a grassroot non-governmental organization based in Kenya. It focuses on environmental conservation and community development and seeks to eventually improve livelihoods and alleviate poverty. To achieve its objectives, GBM conducts civic and environmental education seminars and plants trees on public lands with local communities. It also carries out advocacy activities such as mass action events to protest degradation of the environment, destruction of forests, land grabbing and violation of human rights.
-- C O N T A C T Greenbelt Movement ]
Website: www.greenbeltmovement.org




PARTNERS IN THE GENDER PROGRAMME

Panos Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Panos Ethiopia is a country office of Panos Eastern Africa, which works towards stimulating informed debate, and discussion on development issues both at country and regional levels. The overall goal of the Gender forum is to create a suitable gender perspective in Ethiopia, which can influence and improve the lives of women across the country.
-- [ C O N T A C T Panos ]
Website
:www.panoseasternafrica.org.ug


Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) is a private, non-profit and non-partisan voluntary organization founded by a group of Ethiopian women lawyers to pursue the legal, economic, social and political rights of Ethiopian women.
-- [ C O N T A C T EWLA ]



African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), Nairobi, Kenya

The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was established in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's non-governmental organizations. FEMNET aims to strengthen the role and contribution of African NGOs focusing on women's development, equality and other human rights.
-- [ C O N T A C T FEMNET, FEMNET]
Website
: www.femnet.or.ke


The Kenya Women's Political Caucus, Nairobi, Kenya

The Kenya Women's Political Caucus is a non-partisan, broad-based national network incorporating women politicians, specialized non-governmental organizations and invited gender activists and individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to promote a gender responsive and democratic political system and institutions in Kenya.
-- C O N T A C T Kenya Women Political Caucus ]

ABANTU for Development, Nairobi, Kenya

ABANTU for Development is a registered Charity, established in 1991 and is an NGO in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
-- [ C O N T A C T ABANTU, ABANTU ]


The Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA Kenya), Nairobi, Kenya

The Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA Kenya) is a non-profit, non-partisan and non-governmental membership organization, committed to the creation of a society that is free from all forms of discrimination against women through provision of legal aid, monitoring women's rights, advocacy, education and referral. Membership to FIDA Kenya is open to Kenyan women lawyers and women law students.
-- [ C O N T A C T FIDA ]

Website: www.fidakenya.org


Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC), Mogadishu, Somalia

Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC) is a Somali non-governmental humanitarian national organization founded in 1992 by a group of Somali women intellectuals, from a cross-section of the community, in response to their moral obligation regardless of any geographic or ethnic barrier in the country. Through empowerment, advocacy, awareness raising and mobilization, SSWC aims to facilitate women's rights advancement, mainstreaming and realization of their human capacity.
-- [ C O N T A C T Save Somali Women and Children ]


Horn Relief Development Organization, Puntland, Somalia

Horn Relief Development Organization is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been actively promoting holistic development, peace and inclusion of women in Puntland for the past nine years. Horn Relief realizes that peace is a necessary pre-condition for people's development and women's contribution to society's development is indispensable.
-- [ C O N T A C T Horn Relief]


 

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