Women Environmental Programme Burkina Faso

About us

Women Environmental Programme Burkina Faso is a Non-Governmental Organization with headquarters in Nigeria as WEP NIGERIA; WEP BF is therefore networked with the latter. WEP BF is a private organization with a purely charitable, non-profit, non-political, non-tribalist or ethnic purpose, aiming to serve society.

The specific objectives of the Women Environment Programme Burkina Faso:
- To address gender imperatives in environmental issues, women's social and economic rights through education and empowerment programs - To engage in poverty reduction programs such as microfinance cooperative societies, training of Self-Help groups
- Engage in the preservation/conservation of natural resources to ensure livelihoods and sustainable development;
- Promote women's empowerment through education, advocacy for reform of the profitable environmental code;
- Strengthen the influence of civil society and francophone African delegates in international climate negotiations;
- Ensure that development issues are taken into account in climate policies and integrate climate issues into development policies at the African level; - Encourage the implementation of plans that integrate the issues of improving living conditions, mitigating CO2 emissions, and adapting to climate change.iété.