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WOMEN ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMME COLLABORATES WITH FEDERAL MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT LAUNCH NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE

The Women Environmental Programme a leading development organization in Africa has once again set a milestone in its quest to mitigate effects of climate change in Nigeria.crClimate change is one of the most dreaded natural disasters plaguing different continents as of today and requires the involvement of all stakeholders’ commitment to change the tide. In view of this, Women Environmental

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FG LAUNCHES NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE

                   The Minister of Environment, Dr. Muhammad Mahmood Abubakar launched the NAPGCC that was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari during a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in August 2020. The launch of the NAPGCC was done during a Sensitization Workshop on the National Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change organized by

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TREE PLANTING CAMPAIGN ACROSS NIGERIA

Women Environmental Programme (WEP) received from the Department of Forestry, Federal Ministry of Environment, 3000 trees seedlings as part of the Presidential Trees Planting Campaign to tackle climate change in Nigeria. The tree seedlings have been planted across the country and distributed to various communities and organizations for planting. The tree planting campaign is in fulfillment of President Buhari’s pledge

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WEP ESTABLISHES SOLAR-POWERED DIGITAL CREATIVE LABS IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

Lack of skills coupled with the absence of opportunities for growth and development is a catalyst to violent extremism in communities. Young boys and girls without sustainable expertise and abilities are susceptible to be lured into perpetrating criminal and violent acts. As part of efforts to cushion the aggravation of young children in communities being radicalized and recruited into violent

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WEP Burkina Faso participates at Climate Change Adaptation Forum

The NGO Care International and all its partners, namely, the Environment and Development in Africa (ENDA), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), The Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Group, invited 80 actors of several domains from public et private sectors of 23 countries, in Senegal to attend the Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP). It was

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UPDATE FROM – CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT WOMEN – COP22

PRISCILLA ACHAKPA – Interview with Vogue Magazine “Where is the future of young people if we don’t do anything? ” . Priscilla Achakpa is an environmental activist from Nigeria.  As executive director of the Women Environmental Programme, Achakpa has introduced thousands of women to sustainable solutions to everyday problems, such as waste-to-energy machines that can process rice husks. In Nigeria,

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