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Membership
Membership of Conserve Africa creates a regional network with a clear focus to achieve greater influence of the environmental non-government community in Africa. Clearly a strong membership allows our collective voices to be heard. Members can learn from each other, in a variety of different ways such as training, funding, network meetings, etc. Conserve Africa represents a broad cross-section of organisations, who are involved in all aspects of the environment and sustainable development in Africa. Members are local NGOs, community-based groups or associations which are independent, not profit seeking for its members, has a constitution and a voluntary governing body, management committee or board, and whose activity is aimed at the wider community. We aim to strengthen the voice of the African environmental NGOs to be able to better represent NGO collective interests.
Members of Conserve Africa work together to:
- Become more organised and active in addressing sustainable development issues by facilitating and encouraging collective voice and action, networking, information exchange, research and development initiatives;
- Promote dissemination and sharing of information, experiences, views and ideas on current development challenges in Africa;
- Contribute to the analysis, campaign and discussion on issues of current relevance to socio-economic development of Africa and on international policies that may affect the African ordinary people adversely;
- Share information about successful NGO experiences in Africa and highlight key priority issues for action;
- Increase the visibility of the contributions made by NGOs to socio-economic and sustainable development of the African continent;
- Promote the capacity of Africa-based NGOs trough information provision about opportunities available to them such as: training, conferences, workshops, new publications/reports/abstracts, web sites, international courses, fundraising opportunities, etc;
- Strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations to effectively advocate for and implement environmental protection and awareness programmes;
- To liaise with similar organisations elsewhere as appropriate, to source and share ideas for environmental projects and issues;
- Bring African environmental organisations and community-based groups together involved in environment and sustainable development to improve collective campaigning and advocacy work;
- Encourage and promoting communication between members and cross-fertilisation of information, ideas, and products and working practices;
- Enable the voice of environmental NGOs, including helping them to influence decision-making at all levels.
By becoming a member of Conserve Africa you will become part of a network of NGOs working on Africa the environmental sustainable development issues.
Your Organisation will:
- Have access to our e-mail newsletters, which keeps members up to date with activities, issues, changes trends and developments in the environment and sustainable development, at the national, regional and international levels.
- Be able to participate in campaigns when you could not do it on your own.
- Have opportunities for greater collaboration with other international NGOs which could support your organisation.
- Keep you abreast of key development in relation to international development and NGO sector.
- Be in a position to develop and implement projects in partnership with Conserve Africa or with other international NGOs.
- Have access to information relating to opportunities that could increase the capacity of your organisation (e.g. funding sources, publications, training, events, etc.).
- Be publicised within the international environmental NGO sector through our website, e-mail list, contacts and partnerships with other NGOs.
- Work with Conserve Africa and other NGOs to identify issues of common interest, and then find the best way to address that issue through public awareness, education and campaigning.
- Be able to publicise your organisation, events, activities or to look for partners through our website, through our network or contacts details that we have about other organisations.
- Be able to recruit volunteers and interns from abroad (e.g. Europe and North America) to work with your organisation.
- Participate in our campaigning, research and advocacy activities.
If your organisation wishes to apply for membership t Conserve Africa, download and print the Membership Application form or request one at membership@conserveafrica.org.uk
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