Kenya

City Square
Nairobi 00200
P.O. Box 72461
Tel: 254-020 3876114/9
Fax: 254-020 3876125
Contact: Samuel Waweru
http://www.elci.org

The Environment Liaison Centre International (ELCI) is a global coalition of 134 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working on issues of environment and sustainable development in more than 80 countries. The ELCI secretariat is located in Nairobi, Kenya .

ELCI was established in 1974 as a membership organization with the aim of strengthening communication and co-operation between NGOS and local communities, providing liaison between NGOs and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), helping to strengthen environmental NGO and local community capacities in developing countries and encouraging the advisory role of environmental NGOs through the organs of the United Nations. In all its activities, ELCI seeks to strengthen the quality and effective dissemination of information for environmental policy-making and management, to improve access to environmental information for the public at the national, regional and international levels, and to increase access to environmental justice through opening and widening of the door for civil society voices.

At the international level, ELCI serves as a neutral facilitator of civil society, focusing on the process of opening doors for NGO voices. It has served in an NGO facilitation role in numerous international environmental processes, such as during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 and is currently one of three coordinating NGOs for the NGO Major Groups in the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) process. ELCI is also a coordinator of the NGO community around the Convention on Biological Diversity.

ELCI publishes ECOFORUM, a flag-ship quarterly magazine that highlights environmental and sustainable development issues in an interactive manner, emphasizing the positive actions of individuals and organizations in taking charge of their lives and environment. ECOFORUM aims to stimulate debate and provoke people to adopt a positive outlook to matters of the environment and natural resource management. Other ELCI products include issue specific community guides to environmental management and law as applied in Kenya, colourful posters, thematic video documentaries on water, HIV/AIDs and the environment, waste management, wildlife, mining, quarrying and livestock/pastoralist related land issues.

Member of the International Land Coalition 2003

Agriculture Workers
Farmers
Fisherfolk
Forest Users/Dwellers
Pastoralists
Women
Government and Lawyers

Land Acquisition
Land Tenure Systems
Lobbying and advocacy
Network Building
Community Capacity building
Institutional Development
Legislation, Regulations and Legal Support
Policy Research
Women's Access to Land
Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Land and Water Rights
Environmental Sustainability
Extractive Industries