NGO Links
a)
Eden Foundation
Eden Foundation believes that there is a purpose with every species, even though it often has yet to be discovered. It is important to preserve both a variation between species, and within a species. It is running a project in Sub-Saharan Africa supporting local farmers in combating desertification.
b ) Environment Development Action in the Third World (Enda)
Enda is an international organisation with diplomatic status based in Dakar, Senegal. The organisation consists of a group of teams and programmes working in synergy. Enda tiers-monde is also a network of decentralized nodes worldwide. It webpage offers further information on its organization and projects.
c ) Green Cross International (GCI)
GCI's mission is to help create a sustainable future by cultivating harmonious relationships between humans and the environment. It promotes informed decision-making and the integrated management of river basins and dry zones affected by land degradation. GCI also works to prevent conflicts in water-stressed areas.
d ) Greenwinds
Greenwinds is a NGO with the purpose combat desertification and turning arid land into agriculturally usable land above others. Its webpage provides further information regarding their activities.
e ) International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
The mission of IISD is to promote sustainable development in decision-making internationally and within Canada. We contribute new knowledge and concepts, analyze policies, identify and disseminate information about best practices, demonstrate how to measure progress, and build partnerships to amplify these messages Its desertification page features detailed information of important conferences and meetings, including daily reports from the Conference of the Parties as part of their Earth Negotiations Bulletin series.
f ) International Program for Arid Land Crops (IPALAC)
IPALAC is an outgrowth of an approach used by Ben Gurion University's Institute for Agriculture & Applied Biology in the development of Israel's Negev desert. It expanded its focus area in 1996, and since then IPALAC has organized training programs, workshops and conferences and has initiated a number of field projects, with particular emphasis on the needs of Africa. The webpage informs briefky about IPALAC's approach and its activities.
g) Somalia Environmental Protection and Anti-desertification Organisation (SEPADO)
SEPADO is a non-governmental Organisation, formed during the summer of 1996 to combat environmental problems of the war-torn Somalia. SEPADO presents itself in the internet with information about its work and programs.
h) World Research Institute (WRI)
The World Resources Institute's mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth's environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
Because people are inspired by ideas, empowered by knowledge, and moved to change by greater understanding, WRI provides -- and helps other institutions provide -- objective information and practical proposals for policy and institutional change that will foster environmentally sound, socially equitable development.
i) International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
The Drylands Programme of IIED aims to contribute towards more effective and equitable management of natural resources in the arid and semi-arid regions of Africa. The IIED presents itself in the internet with information about offices and staff, publications and networking information and collaborative research programmes.
j) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
The IUCN mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.”
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