Environment Liaison Centre International (ELCI) is a Non Governmental membership Organization that emerged and was established from the first Earth Summit in Stockholm in 1972. This initiative was aimed at monitoring the activities of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and help Non Governmental Organizations and UNEP work more effectively.
Mission:
Making information a useful tool to measurably improve the environment
Vision:
Enlightened societies in ecological abundance
Objectives:
To build the capacity of NGO's and CBO's by facilitating both their access to relevant information and Information exchange
− To promote sustainable environmental programmes and projects
− To involve NGO's and CBO's in issue based workshops and seminars
− To facilitate and coordinate and NGO's and CBO's to take an advocacy role in international environmental conferences
Activities/Main areas of work:
ELCI activities are concentrated in five thematic areas: Forests, water, energy, agriculture, and environmental governance.
For each thematic area, a variety of approaches and projects are implemented. These are based at the local, national and regional levels, with cross-cutting initiatives concentrating at international fora.
ELCI focuses on the local-global linkages, especially with those initiatives that bring policy or ideas to the grass-root levels or 'on the ground' case studies or lessons learned to the decision making people.
The main aspects of this work are communication, information generation and dissemination aimed at environmental conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
In addition, ELCI focuses on the link between Civil Society and UNEP, encouraging a stronger advisory role of NGOs in UNEP decision making.
Coverage:
Global
Beneficiaries:
Agriculture workers, farmers, fisherfolk, forest users/dwellers, pastoralists,
women, government and lawyers
Membership/Affiliations:
ELCI has a membership network of over 800 NGO/CBO member organizations in over 100 countries all working towards a more sustainable world
