ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE

Green Development Advocates (GDA) is a Cameroonian Civil Society Organization (CSO), created in 2009 by a multidisciplinary group of former NGO executives working in the same sector of activity. It was legalized on June 30, 2011 and works for development that respects social and environmental requirements.

OUR GOALS

• Promote good environmental governance;
• Integrate the consideration of the environment into local development initiatives and into the policies of modern actors (States, aid agencies, private sector, etc.);
• Make available to the population, especially the poor and vulnerable, alternative justice services, legal assistance, defense and protection of the socio-economic rights of citizens);
• Strengthen the capacities of actors in the sectors of civil society in environmental protection and defense of rights;
• Provide support to indigenous peoples and other populations at risk for self-promotion that respects their environment and culture;
• Inform, educate and raise awareness on issues related to the environment and human rights;
• Contribute to the sustainable management of natural resources and the fight against climate change;